Today I am sharing my heart!
Here I am at the end of Isabody number 11!!! To say I am proud of my consistency is an understatement. Funny thing is before Isagenix I would have been ashamed to say I am proud of anything I did. I would have just shrugged it off as common place. But this is anything BUT commonplace. Many of us at Isagenix live in a world of consistency but we forget that the real world is full of people who give up on their goals and plans. We are a different breed. The amazing thing is that anyone can make the decision to join us because we lay it out so simply for them. Our team has had amazing transformations because we not only incorporate our amazing products but we also incorporate nutrition education, ideas on how to move your body daily, accountability, mindset and TRIBE! I feel like those last things are missing from so many well laid out plans.
My back story is shared by so many moms I know. I spent my whole life “battling” my weight instead of just loving the body I was in. I took so many drastic measures in my 20’s and 30’s that it is a wonder my body even still works! I had two babies 18 months apart and was determined to get back to myself as quickly as possible. I gave myself no grace. I got back to my pre baby weight but could not maintain it in a healthy way. In 2011 we decided to uproot the family and move back to where I was from. This move opened up a lot of uncared for wounds. I moved back and went right into old self sabotaging ways. I was majorly depressed and my anxiety was through the roof. I looked okay on the outside but on the inside I was fighting an every day battle. I gave up my healthy eating habits and kept telling myself just a little wouldn’t be a problem. I was drinking more frequently as a secondary numbing agent. Life was easier with a buzz.
On a vacation in the summer of 2015 I saw a picture of myself and couldn’t believe it was me. I didn’t look like me, I didn’t feel like me. I took my “before” picture and was bound and determined to make change. I tried. I really did but by the holidays I had made zero progress. On NYE I saw another picture that rocked me to my core. I needed myself back. I was lost, I could see the unhappiness in my eyes. I wanted to hide. I decided to try again. I think you can see the pattern here. I didn’t have a plan, just a desire. My friend had been talking to me for 6 months about Isagenix and by March I was finally ready to try this thing that I knew wouldn’t work. After 2 weeks I felt amazing! I asked if there was something illegal in the products because how could I feel that good, LOL! Now that I understand the ingredients and the science I KNOW why I feel so good. I am fueling my body.
All in all I lost 25 lbs on Isagenix and started changing my life from the inside out. I had an amazing nutrition plan, I learned about food pairings and protein pacing. I made a ton of new like minded friends all over the country. I started sharing my success. 2017 and 2018 were my best years to date! I was alive, I was fit, I was building financial freedom. Most importantly I was living most of the moments in my life in true JOY! All the mindset work was paying off.
Then comes 2019. The year that would try to take it all way. 2019 was my test year. I began having crazy symptoms, fatigue, muscle aches, joint pain and a bunch of other not so fun stuff. I was so confused. I went to a few different specialists, had 2 back procedures done and was told I needed to consider bioligics for my illness. I read up on them and decided to try other things first before taking that amount of toxins into my body. I decided to tighten up my nutrition and really focus on the foods that heal and I totally changed up my workouts to ones that did not cause days of pain after. In the beginning I felt weak. Like I had failed myself. Like I was being punished for who knows what. But because of all of my mindset work I was able to start to turn that around. I realized I was given these illnesses because I was meant to overcome them, to live through them and to teach others how to do the same. They were not a punishment but a gift to be opened and explored.
I am a very open person on social media. I will share the ups and the downs of my life. I feel like I was meant to live this life to inspire others to not give up. Quite honestly, it would have been so easy to just let everything go. There were moments I thought about just succumbing but then I remembered who I was and I straightened my crown!
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