Almost a year after I started exercising...

 

I started this journey in May of last year. It was not easy. Getting off my butt and dealing with getting out of my head was exhausting, but after a while, I decided to join my friends who were doing Morning Meltdown 100 at the time. 

Feeling super miserable and totally defeated, I tried hard not to think too much about how hard the work out was. Eventually, as the weeks progressed, I went from hating the MF workouts, to loving them. Especially Fight Club. 

And then when you're feeling so much better about yourself, and what you're seeing on the paper, when you compare your measurements, there's always someone... always someone who comes about and tries to take away the small victories. 

So I've learned to shut people up. As soon as someone gives me a backhanded compliment, I've learned to stand up for myself. That leads to some people getting awful upset, and blocking me on Social Media, but I think if you are big enough to dish out an insult disguised as concern, you can take it when I call you out on it. 

For now, I'm looking forward to the next year of exercising and trying to do more for myself. My goal isn't to be stick thin and look like I did when I was a young thing in my teens. I've bore two children and have a womanly body which I like. So my goal right now is to be healthy enough so that I can in the future enjoy my grandchildren. :)