Hey all! It's been such a loooong time since I have posted here. It feels good to be back. 🤗
So, I've had quite the fitness journey; from heavy to skinny-fat, to fit, then placing very well onstage as a competitor. It's been such a ride, I wouldn't trade it for the whole world.
I started becoming interested in fitness when I was struggling to lose weight after the birth of my son in 2002. I was at my heaviest (215 lbs) and had then been diagnosed as hypothyroid (which I still currently medicated for), so losing the weight and stepping into this new lifestyle wasn't ever easy.
I found solace here, in our women's forum years ago. I learnt exactly what I needed to know from the women here, took their expertise and learned SO DAMN MUCH. The tools I still carry with me today, even after the expensive coaches and the other "diets"...gold, I tell you, is here.
Life happens. Post-competition blues...it also happens. Adulting doesn't give you the ability to make excuses to alter your lifestyle and to halt your growth in your personal well-being.
However, the once motivated girl that I saw in the reflection in the mirror, she's someone different. Changed in a lot of ways for the better, but is a woman who fell off the bandwagon and seemed to has forgotten what excited her and drove her to achieve her fitness goals in the first place.
Where did the excitement go? And try as I might, I just can't seem to find it. Somedays, as I sit and write out my workouts and nutrition plan for the week, I feel the familiar flicker of excitement start to ignite! Yet I literally feel like I am dragging myself into the gym most mornings.
I am all for Team No Excuses. Yet I now find myself doing it. Getting older can suck if you let it, and I don't need anymore "suckage" in my life.
I guess I feel like I have forgotten everything that used to drive me, and it frustrates me to no end. I have taken ample amounts of time off from living in the gym here and there after I decided not to compete for some time, so it's not necessarily burn out. I don't mind the gym. I don't mind my nutritional program (I prefer it, actually). I don't mind being softer, and not such a hard body all of the time. But, what I DO mind is not being able to acquire my once beloved passion for the hard work I put into my personal fitness realm. WTF do I have to do to get it back?
I am writing to ask you all what inspires you, what motivates you. Maybe something will strike a chord within me, and give me back the moxie to do this **** with fire.
So, I've had quite the fitness journey; from heavy to skinny-fat, to fit, then placing very well onstage as a competitor. It's been such a ride, I wouldn't trade it for the whole world.
I started becoming interested in fitness when I was struggling to lose weight after the birth of my son in 2002. I was at my heaviest (215 lbs) and had then been diagnosed as hypothyroid (which I still currently medicated for), so losing the weight and stepping into this new lifestyle wasn't ever easy.
I found solace here, in our women's forum years ago. I learnt exactly what I needed to know from the women here, took their expertise and learned SO DAMN MUCH. The tools I still carry with me today, even after the expensive coaches and the other "diets"...gold, I tell you, is here.
Life happens. Post-competition blues...it also happens. Adulting doesn't give you the ability to make excuses to alter your lifestyle and to halt your growth in your personal well-being.
However, the once motivated girl that I saw in the reflection in the mirror, she's someone different. Changed in a lot of ways for the better, but is a woman who fell off the bandwagon and seemed to has forgotten what excited her and drove her to achieve her fitness goals in the first place.
Where did the excitement go? And try as I might, I just can't seem to find it. Somedays, as I sit and write out my workouts and nutrition plan for the week, I feel the familiar flicker of excitement start to ignite! Yet I literally feel like I am dragging myself into the gym most mornings.
I am all for Team No Excuses. Yet I now find myself doing it. Getting older can suck if you let it, and I don't need anymore "suckage" in my life.
I guess I feel like I have forgotten everything that used to drive me, and it frustrates me to no end. I have taken ample amounts of time off from living in the gym here and there after I decided not to compete for some time, so it's not necessarily burn out. I don't mind the gym. I don't mind my nutritional program (I prefer it, actually). I don't mind being softer, and not such a hard body all of the time. But, what I DO mind is not being able to acquire my once beloved passion for the hard work I put into my personal fitness realm. WTF do I have to do to get it back?
I am writing to ask you all what inspires you, what motivates you. Maybe something will strike a chord within me, and give me back the moxie to do this **** with fire.
by ErinB1218 via Bodybuilding.com Forums - Female Bodybuilding
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