Hello world! My name is Anna and this is my blog!
I am currently a senior at Haywood Early college and I work at Kid Connection daycare where I teach. Over the last few months I have been trying to better myself, mentally and physically. It started in October when my friend told me about an online fitness program that her friend created. I have always been pretty self-conscious with myself so I went in with the intention of changing the way I looked. She sent me the program and the nutrition guide and I would start the following week. I went in thinking that the workouts would be so easy and only take me a few minutes, boy was I wrong. I couldn’t even get through the first set in the program without taking multiple breaks for a few days. Then on top of that, all I ate for the first week was chicken salads and almonds for counting my macros (fats, carbohydrates, and protein), which if you can imagine got old quick. I started to get really frustrated with my meals and keeping track of how many grams I was allowed per day. I talked to her about this and told her how frustrating the situation was so she told me to start experimenting with more recipes. With this I started to get more experimental and excited about cooking and eating my meals for the day. Then with my trainer’s guidance, I started doing more cardio and less strength training because I had injured my back while I was at work. With these two things combined, I started to feel more comfortable with being healthy, and it started to show as I started building more muscle and burning body fat. But it’s not just how I changed physically, I really started to change mentally. Going to the gym everyday helped me release built up stress, which took a lot of weight off my shoulders. It may sound odd but one day I woke up and just thought to myself that I love the way I am feeling and I honestly even forgot about the fact that I began my journey wanting to change the way I looked. Don’t get me wrong, I loved putting on clothes and realizing that they were now too big but it just wasn’t about that for me anymore. I started to realize that it wasn’t my body that I hated, I hated my perception of life and how I felt. I have to say, that month I had the best attitude, I absolutely loved myself and I felt myself being so much happier. Since then I have seen myself slowly go back to my old ways but I have decided that I won’t let it happen. I want to be happy and love life so I have decided to start back on the program. I have created this blog so that all of you can join me on my journey, and so that one day I can look back and see how one aspect in life can play such a big role in your happiness and to possibly inspire one of you to go on your own journey! I hope I get to share this experience with you!
See ya next time! 🙂