When I started Beachbody coaching, my upline coach, Lindsay asked me a question that I did not foresee changing my outlook on life. She asked me simply to state my "why"... Why am I in this business, why do I want to change my life, why do I want to get in shape, WHY WHY WHY?
This is a very deep question and one that I reflect on daily. Why am I doing what I am doing? Well, there are many reasons... I want to share with YOU my why, and hopefully from that you can get a better understanding of me and who I really am, and where I am hoping to go in life.
When I was younger, I was fairly athletic, I swam, played softball and basketball- not THEE most athletic person in the world, but I was involved! I have super supportive parents, who always coached my teams and were very involved! When I got into middle school, I lost interest in basketball and swimming but continued to play slowpitch and fastpitch softball. I gained some weight just from not exercising as much, I was not "obese" but I definitely was not the stick skinny girl all my friends were! My sophomore year of high school I tore my labrum in my shoulder, and was told to give up softball or have surgery, I chose to retire my softball career, which at the time was pretty devastating to me.
From that day on, I was not active hardly at all. I lost all drive and motivation I had and gained quite a bit of weight. I had a huge group of girl friends- who were all stick skinny, eat whatever you want, never gain weight kinds of girls. I became very uncomfortable with myself, and always hated not being able to share clothes like the rest of my friends were doing. I was secretly trying every "get skinny quick" schemes like Nutrisystem, Dr. Organics shakes, Slim Fast, Alli pills, liquid diets, etc. ANYTHING I could get my hands on that was proven to help you "lose weight FAST". I never had much success, and if I did lose weight, I was sure to gain it back + some. To say the least, I became very discouraged.
When I began my freshman year of college, I weighed in at 241 pounds... WHAT? How did that happen? I looked at the scale that day and realized I had hit rock bottom. Something had to be done, and not another "diet". I needed a lifestyle change, ASAP! I started running in November of 2011, and lost about 7 pounds between then and the end of February 2012. Results? Yes. Were they what I was hoping for? No. It was the beginning of April, and my little sister, who by the way is the healthiest, fittest person I have ever met, had bought INSANITY not long before this- I asked my boyfriend, Nathan if he would be interested in starting the program with me, he, being my biggest supporter, said yes. We began the next day. Within 15 days of INSANITY I lost another 7 pounds--THAT SHIT WAS BANANAS as Shaun T would say! I fell in love with the results, the REAL results.
I was introduced to Lindsay Stroschein at the same time I was going to be starting INSANITY and Nathan signed up as a Beachbody coach (well, I basically signed up under Nathan's name :P). Lindsay was always talking about Shakeology (which I had heard of, but didn't know much about it), and I decided it was something I needed to try--the advertisements at the end of Shakeology got me even more excited! We each ordered a bag of Shakeology, figured we would give it a try, and SURPRISE! I fell in love with that too! It has been about 5 months since I decided to REALLY change my lifestyle, I became a Beachbody coach in June and have never looked back. I started Turbofire (my soulmate workout) on August 20th and am down a total of 25 pounds total!
Beachbody has not just helped me lose weight, it has CHANGED MY LIFE. I have met so many great people and am truly grateful for everything that I have learned over the last few months. That is WHY I am so passionate about what I do, and I cannot wait to see where I can continue to go in the future.
