I'm On Top of the World

This week has just been incredible. I mean on top of a mountain feeling the wind through my hair, incredible. (I've never been on a mountain but its everything I could only hope it would feel like). I finished my junior year of college with a double major and have yet to go completely insane.... yet. I got to a goal in my weight loss that I once thought to never be attainable, IVE LOST 20 POUNDS, and it's only Tuesday. Let's address one subject at a time.

20 pounds..... OMG! Are you sure that scale is right? Where did it go!? Where was it at before now!? I'm super woman! I'm amazing! AHHH. My brain wont stop running in circles because of how excited I am! I shed a few happy tears yesterday when I stepped on the scale. My entire workout, each time I thought I couldn't go further, I told myself that 180 looked good on me and that I WOULD meet my goals before Christmas. Just so warm and fuzzy inside right now :))))))).

After this weekend and week I have now sent my weight loss tips and tricks document to 27 people. How cool is that!? To those people, and to all other people. I want to make you an offer. I have gym memberships in Maryville, Bedford, and Shenandoah and I would like to help you become acquainted with your gym. If you don't have a membership yet we can each pay a one time fee to go in and workout together. This way, you don't have to approach the gym alone on your first trip and when you go your second time, you will know what to do on your own and look confident doing it! I am on Christmas break until January 12 and can make most nights work if you give me an advanced notice!

The reason that I want to offer going to the gym with people is not to benefit me in any way but to help each of you. I can send you my documents a thousand times and ask you over Facebook how you are doing with your weight loss but it isn't going to conquer your fear of the gym. If I take you to the gym and show you how everything works, we can come up with workouts that will work for you together and you can go on your own confidently each day from there on out. Everyone needs a slight push to get things started. My push was my sister going to the gym with me and being curious and getting me away from just the treadmills. So, message me, comment, or come in contact with me in some way and we will make a time work!

I was added to a group on Facebook full of incredible women also on their Weight Loss journey. On this site we discuss clean eating, post sweaty selfies from our workouts, vent about our terrible day, brag about our successes, cheer each other on, and SO much more. This group, along with my blog, is what keeps holding me accountable for my workouts, eating, and weight loss. I see other people getting their butt off the couch and working out, so why can't I? I see everyone losing weight and gaining muscle just by working out, so why can't I? I see motivation that sometimes I lose focus of. I am beyond thankful for this group and all that it has offered me. Most of all, I see these things and ask myself, why can't I?. This is what you should ask yourself each day.

I am walking living breathing proof that being "bigger boned" is not a good enough excuse. You deserve better than being bigger boned. I don't care if you are happily in a relationship, happily single, or happily binge drinking every night, you deserve to look good because you want to look good. I may not be petite or tiny but I am making my body fit my physique properly. I have come to terms with my past weight and that is how I am battling and becoming who I want to be.

If you are just starting your weight loss journey I would like you to sit down and write the answers in a journal to a few questions.




1. When you eat, do you eat because you are hungry, bored, or emotional?

2. When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see. Describe yourself.

3. Now look at yourself in the mirror and describe yourself in all POSITIVE terms.

4. When you dream about what you want to look like, what is the weight you would like to be? Is this a healthy weight for you?

5. Imagine yourself at your goal weight..Write a statement that you want to hear others say about you when you walk into a room after you have lost that weight.

Next week I will address each of these questions. The beginning to losing weight is determining what your emotional factors into life are that caused you to gain that weight. The way that you look at yourself means everything.

I believe in you. I believe in everyone. I fully believe that each person has the ability to achieve their weight loss goal if they set their mind to it. So wake up tomorrow determined to change your life for the better!








XOXO, Audrey

LATER HATERS!

Ever noticed that you can't smell a distinct smell in your own house, but in other peoples you can? I'm pretty sure that's about how my weight loss has gone. I know I can feel it in my actions, but I don't see it! When I say I don't see it, that doesn't mean that others haven't.

This week I attended a funeral visitation and the Bedford High School Homecoming activities. I received an abundance of compliments that I couldn't be happier about! I smiled ear to ear with every one and tried not to jump into the persons arms and tell them thank you! Then I take picture and actually LOOK at myself. Not just in the mirror but I study myself. Holy crap.... I really do look good!

I needed this change more than anything. I needed to be healthier for the sake of my present and for my future. I know I'm only 20 years old but I quite frequently think about my grandchildren.. and great grandchildren.. and so on. I want to be in their lives! I want to be up and moving and healthy to be apart of their lives! I want to wear my sons football jersey on homecoming and have it fit. I want to wear hip clothes so my daughter can like me that much more. I have goals for my future that give me a reason to lose weight. All very good reasons.

It took me years to come to terms with my body type. I have two amazingly beautiful older sisters who got blessed with gorgeous curves and size small t-shirts. When I was growing up, I would try to fit into all of their clothes. And when I say try, that means I succeeded. Even if the jeans took splitting the crotch out to wear them, I WAS going to wear them. Even if my muffin top was like an XL run over muffin... Yep, wore it..... I would try to fit into size medium dress shirts and so much more. One day I studied a picture of myself and I was like.... OMG what am I wearing? Why do I look like that? What was I thinking!? Lightbulb came on that day and that is where size large Audrey began. I was made fun of all through middle school and high school for being the chunky girl or any other name that people could call me. I was the girl with an awesome personality so the only thing they could spite me with was my weight. Why is it that girls have to be so self conscious about their weight from such a young age? Because some people like to be jerks.

I would like all of those jerks to take a nice look at me now... let their jaw drop really low... hear the words, "holy crap, she got hot"... and I'll keep walking because I know you couldn't accept me in my 6 size too small jeans 9 years ago...  LATER HATERS!

This week I was starving. I wanted to eat EVERYTHING in sight. I even made the comment to my boyfriend, "I could eat a whole house right now" and his response was, "are you going to let the people get out first or.....". Yup, that's how my week went. I ate nearly a whole tube of pringles chips one night at midnight because I was so stressed out from homework. I still went to the gym every single day but I was eating a TON. I weigh in every Thursday and I was nearly scared to death to go step on that scale. But LOL because I gained 10% muscle mass compared to 2% last week and lost 2% body fat. Since my muscle mass was increasing, I needed more protein. Without protein I was just constantly hungry. It all came together pretty quickly and started to make sense. Not to mention I still lost weight. That my friends is why this is not a DIET because none of this involved dieting and I still became a healthier version of who I was last week.

This week was everything I needed and more and I couldn't thank each of you enough. You are the greatest support system a girl could ask for. Especially my best friend Sam who went on a long morning jog with me on Saturday. :) I love getting the comments and compliments that people give me because they truly give me motivation to continue! I hope you see what I am doing and give yourself some motivation to do it as well! Remember, we are in this together!

Hope everyone has a great week!

xoxo, Audrey