Time For Change - Challenge Accepted

I accepted the Gold's Gym twelve week body transformation challenge. I have always been drawn towards these challenges because I have been living short of my potential for about thirteen years, physically and mentally. I struggle every day knowing that I am not fully living. It is a terrible feeling knowing that you are so short from a much better life experience, fully convinced that it can be achieved in twelve weeks, and not being able to reach the goal. I have always believed that if I could get myself in good health and feel good about me, that the rest of my life issues would dissolve. Unfortunately, I have been stuck in a depressing cycle of trying and failing, trying and failing. I have tried and failed to get a grip on my life since I was a teenager. I gained weight, fell into a binge eating disorder, was treated for depression and anxiety, lived a half ass life, pushed away friends and family, lost motivation and desire, I could go on and on. I continued to 'live' in a generic sense. I graduated college, got married, had a daughter, bought a house and had many more milestones, but each day I was living I did not feel alive.

It wasn't until I began to recognize that my depressing lifestyle was directly effecting my daughter and my husband that I really had the drive to make a change. Hurting myself was one thing, but when it effected the lives of my family,
negatively, things had to be different. I wouldn't bring them down with me. Hell no. 

So, I signed up for the Gold's Gym Challenge. I started setting my alarm each morning and getting up on the first ring. I started cleaning up my diet, far from perfect, but slowly starting to make better choices. I set a clear plan. Elliptical, 30 min, M-Th, Body Pump - Saturday & Monday, Muay Thai - Wednesdays, and just get active as much as possible. 

I started on January 7th. I got my pictures, weighed in at 148lb, 5'3, 30% body fat. WHAT! Yup, 30% body fat. UGH! So far, I have stuck to the plan. I am feeling stronger, but my pants are still tight! I am strong all day long and I fall short almost every day around 4-6:00. I need to tighten up the diet so I can start seeing and feeling changes. 

Anyway, I named this blog 2016 Hours because there just so happen to be 2016 hour in a year. How fitting. I want to take this challenge hour by hour. Better decisions each hour will get me to my goal.

Here is to the next hour!