Good evening all you Fanatics out there. I hope all has been going well with all of you. So as I promised you guys yesterday I wanted to tell you about what my year was like, and why I decided to get healthy. As most of us today in this country I just kind of got stuck in the same old sublime routine. I kept on making excuses, and reasons why I just couldn't get started eating healthier, or working out. For me, all I was really concerned about was going to work, paying my bills, and taking care of everybody else. I just kept putting myself last on my endless list. Well this finally took it's tole on me, mentally and physically. For instance, looking in the mirror just was not something I liked to do. I could hardly recognize myself, my appearance just did not sit well with me. I just felt terrible!
My clothes were getting tighter, and tighter. Yet my excuse was oh well, it's probably about to be that time of the month or maybe I'm constipated. Yeah, I was really full of it with the excuses. Finally I started to get more colds, and sinus infections. Also, I started to realize that there was not one day that I could think back on that I was not having excessive joint pain. Pain pills like Tylenol and Advil were taken every 4 hours, and I wore an ankle brace every day to work, or pretty much every where all the time. Walking without that brace just was not an option, because my ankle hurt too much. I also wore an arm compression sleeve as well. I actually waddled when I walked anywhere. I just could not help doing that, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
I just had enough of all of this crap so I finally gave myself a reality check. Life is just to short to be unhappy, and that was why I was not happy with my situation. So by the time I took this photo of me in the before shot I had managed to lose some weight on my own being Vegan. I just could not lose anymore so that is when I decided to use Herbalife. I got on a body transformation challenge, which pushed me to work out a little bit harder, and just pay a little more attention to what I put on my plate. Another thing that I began to do is work on doing more things for myself. That meant spending a little bit more me time, whether that was working out, meditation, praying, or listening to self enrichment audios. Listen, for me doing this was a pretty big step.
As women it's in our nature to be nurturers, and to a fault we tend to put ourselves last. This can become very detrimental to our health. It's got to stop, we have to stop thinking that we are being selfish. We simply are not, it's just called taking care of yourself. If you don't take care of yourself then who will. Who will care for our children if we do so much for everybody else that we let ourselves go, and drop down one day. I guarantee you guys that the children would rather have there mother or father there with them alive and well. Just food for thought, and something we all need to remember.
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