Where Am I Now?

My last post was November 19, 2012 and here I find myself in the same place when I started this blog more than a year ago.

What have I learned? That I have trouble making myself a PRIORITY! This includes taking control of my health.

This very reason is why I haven't blogged in awhile. Transparency and Accountability means you have to deal with the truth and I couldn't deal with it. I had failed and even though I had friends and family pushing me, I had no pushed.

In the last few months I kept saying to myself, "Where would I be had I not stopped?" but made no changes to get myself back to the progress I had made.

However, I woke up this morning wanting something different. Ready for something different! What is it?

CONTROL over my life, CONTROL over what I allow in my life and my body.

So on today, June 15, 2013 I'M TAKING CONTROL! I refuse to be defeated in my mind, in my body and in my spirit.

I'm ready to put in the work and I'm ready to make me my own hobby. To seal the deal for me, I read a message today from @mankofit, a lady I follow on Instagram and it sank in even more for me. Hopefully, this will help someone else:

"Life is hard, life will throw punches at you, reward you, throw you off a cliff then help you get back up... where am I going with this? Well very simple, LIFE IS HARD but there's light at the end of the tunnel which takes me to my next point.

How many times have you or seen anyone quit during their fitness journey falling right back where they were? Well a lot haven't you?

I don't know how many times I'm going to say this but it takes time to see amazing results. It didn't take you a week to be out of shape, reality is just like me some of us haven't even picked up a dumbbell in our lives when we began our journey, so why expect to skip the hard work that takes when we are trying to reach our full potential!

Why would you quit so easy & so early into your journey because you don't feel like you're getting there fast enough?
How many times have you said, "If I didn't stop back then I would have looked/ felt so much better?" Well too many times, haven't you? because I've been there.

Achieving your dream body and acquiring optimal health takes time, dedication, persistence, and hard work just like anything worth having in life. We really have to stop quitting because every time we do, we start dwelling on what could have been.

So stop it now, get yourself together and promise to yourself that you will not quit this time! Do it for you because you deserve to live healthy, happy, and longer.

We are not quitters, we are warriors, and we will succeed! Get it through your head, you are NOT a quitter, not this time, not next time..."