You can switch cars but you only get one body

The next week we were now on the field. This time it was a 100m race. I was so confident. “I know I got this! Did you see me last week?” I thought. I get to the line and he blows the whistle. I was pushing myself so hard but as I looked at the rest of the racers it was like I was running backwards. I came in last so nicely it was not even funny. And just as quickly as I concluded I was a great athlete, I realized it had just been luck in the first week .

Fast forward to Junior year in college. I had not bothered with any physical activities most of my life but had always been relatively slim. I was proud to tell people I never worked out whenever it came up. You know the whole “I naturally look like this” deal. Well, 2 of my really good friends Eveleyn and Morenike(Another one) had started doing laps on the track field. One day they asked me to come and for some reason I decided to. I geared up, ready for the run. They would jog from our dorm room to the gym then start around the tracks. We started from our building, then through our community before we got to the main road. It took about 5 minutes but felt like an hour. My heart started racing and my chest was burning. You would have sworn I just did a 100m sprint. They both started laughing and thought I was playing. Beleive it or not that was where my run ended(pathetic, I know. lol )

After college, I started doing the whole gym thing very sporadically all in the name of getting fit. See, let me be real, as I learned from a fitness book, I have really always been skinny fat! Meaning everything jiggles and there is no real definition on my body. I actually thought it was sexy that my butt was that way until I found that it was very unhealthy and not so sexy! haha. The thing was that I figured this was just how I was built and I had no control over it.

In 2012 I got engaged and getting ready for the wedding was my closest successful attempt. Ok not that it worked but this stretch lasted the longest. I was working out with my fiancé- Ife. We would go running, to the gym and were eating healthy. It lasted a few months but the scale was so discouraging. The more we worked out, the more we gained. Initially, I bought into the whole “extra weight is from building muscles” but that got old and eventually I gave up. Somehow I lost a bunch of weight and everything was great for the wedding in April 2013. But I still didn’t know how it happened or what I had done.

July 2013, I was ready to start again. I called it my “Sexy Bod Motivation”. Again I wanted to tone up but I just could not get myself up or to the gym. So when August rolled in, I decided to get a personal trainer. The day I signed up, one of the trainers said to me “You can switch your car every few years but you only get one body”. That made so much sense. After my first session I realized that 2 30min sessions each week was not going to get me the change I was looking for.

So I started researching the truth behind fitness and decided I was not satisfied with the confusing theories on how to get fit. Good carbs? Bad carbs? Cardio makes you lose weight? Lifting heavy weights give you manly muscles? And on and on. Here I am now beginning this journey. I am still working with a personal trainer and taking group fitness classes- Zumba and others. I am also enrolled in a group fitness certification program for fitness professionals. Yes it is that serious! As I write this, I realize there are so many misconceptions through different phases in my life that I know many people share. I am learning this in my classes and I look forward to sharing throughout this journey. I seek truth so I can finally get the results I want. Join me in this journey and hopefully I can save you from the madness as I save myself.