Time to push a little harder

Well, as you all know the past 2 weeks have been a struggle with working out/eating healthy. As much as I want to blame it on the hormones, meds and the loss I suffered, I was just being lazy and an excuse to eat unhealthy. I stepped on the scale and was so shocked and then looked in the mirror wow!! I noticed my skin isn't as tight as it was when I was dedicated to p90x and I had a bloated stomach. I got to thinking that something needs to change, I need organization and better, more healthy foods. With that being said, I've decided to go more organic, natural, clean, and decided to cut out dairy milk. Now days there is so many unnecessary things added to our foods and our foods are being chemically engineered and all the added hormones to the meat and milk, hence why young girls are starting their menstrual cycles at a younger age. I've decided that tomorrow I am eating much much healthier starting the week with a detox. I came up with a meal plan and a workout plan for the entire week that way I keep on track and keep myself motivated. I know once I start seeing results it helps to motivate more, it's getting there that is the hard part. I am also taking a detox bath once a week, I took one tonight and if you haven't taken one before....you must! It was so relaxing, my body just felt so relaxed and like a weight had been lifted from me. For the bath you use hot water, Epsom salt, ground/fresh ginger, lavender oil and baking soda. Soak for at least 20 min, leaving your feet out of the water. I will be posting my pics after 3 weeks, hoping to see some great results! If you would like a copy of the detox, feel free to shoot me an e-mail girly_208@hotmail.com I would love to share :) I hope y'all have an amazing week, push hard and don't give up...the beginning is always the hardest but it will be so worth it in the end!

~Don't ne upset with the results you didn't getwith the workout you didn't do

I'm back after a really lazy week last week. I'm definitely not going to make excuses for myself because I know I have the fight in me, the will to carry on no matter what the circumstances. I did have a tough last week, physically and emotionally with medical treatments. I now realize that because I was exhausted my mind thought I shouldn't work out...wrong!! Your body is capable of much more than you think, your mind is what stops you. It's called a workout because it requires effort, without the work it's simply and easyout! Over the summer when I was in the process of change, a song came out called 'The Fighter' When hearing that it pushed me to new heights, new limits and when all was said and done I knew I was a fighter, I refuse to give up no matter what happens. You have to want it, When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful! I often have people say to me "why do you want to keep working out, you already look great?" Well it's simple, I do it for my body, I do it for my health, you have to live in this body why not make it look good and feel great? Working out is a lifestyle to me, when I'm in that gym I have one mindset and thats bettering myself for myself! When I'm running at the beach, it's so liberating knowing it's just the ocean waves and my feet hitting the earth, my mind goes to a place where I don't even think about running and how bad it burns/hurts, running is cheap therapy! After watching The Biggest Loser last night, I now have a greater respect for the contestants. Before my journey with getting into shape, I would watch them on TV and think "it can't be that hard to lose weight" It is the hardest thing I've done in my entire life! It is not only a physically challenge but more of a mental challenge. I had to wake up every morning and tell myself "you have to workout because no one else can do this for you" I had to skip eating a Mcdonalds breakfast sandwich and instead had my post protein shake workout for breakfast. It's all about commitment, it's all about how bad do you want this. Anyone in this world can lose weight, it's not going to be easy but you have to want it so badly. I am starting a new week today, I am not going to listen to my head, as exhausted as I am, I feel sick and bloated but I'm lacing up those shoes and I'm hitting that gym/pool and doing my p90x this evening! I refuse to be where I was, I refuse to be miserable, I refuse to let my hard work go down the drain, I refuse to be a failure! I know what it takes, and I'm not afraid of a little hard work! I want each of you that read this to do a little workout today, everyone has to start somewhere, even if it's a few pushups, squats, jumping jacks...get your heart going and then maybe you will want to do it all over again tomorrow! Feel free to check out my website www.beachbodycoach.com/groffycg 

"If you wanna breathe, do what I say and maybe one day you'll be able to breathe"
~Jillian Michaels 

Well, this basically describes how I feel today! Between these hormones they have me on and New Years dinner, I feel like I gained 20 LBS. I went hard in the gym yesterday doing 6 miles on the bike, 2 miles on the treadmill and 25 laps in the pool, only to go home and do chest & back (p90x) and ab ripperX. I woke up this morning with pain all over, it was an amazing feeling! Today started out sorta lazy, then finally mustered up the strength to run and do plyometrics (p90x).  Today was so hard motivating myself, but I know that I will never achieve my goals by lying on the couch eating. Today I was thinking back to the time in my life when I would eat fast food, drink soda, and never workout but yet I complained how I was so big, miserable and wanted to lose weight. I am so happy with my choice to workout everyday, someday's I'd rather stay in bed but I push myself to get up and moving. Ending my night tonight, I now have a swelled foot, looks like  plantar fasciitis is back...this is day 2 of a swelled foot ugh I've given it a break by swimming and biking, it's becoming exhausting. Icing it and hoping for a better workout tomorrow! Never give up on your dreams, never let anyone tell you that you can't! 


~You talk about it, you post about it but what are you doing about it? Drop the cookie and get your fitness on! 

My journey, wow...what an experience it has been so far! My journey originally started back in April of 2011. In April of 2011 I weighed 186LBS..I know, Gross especially since I am only 5ft4in. I wanted to lose the weight for when my husband had returned home from his first deployment. I started a beachbody program, P90X, in 4 months I lost 35 pounds. When he returned home I had gained 20 pounds back which I was disappointed. Health and fitness has never really been a part of my life, I would gain weight and only workout until I lost what I wanted then the vicious cycle started all over again. It wasn't until march 19th 2012 that I decided that I wanted to become fit and healthy not just to lose the weight but to have it as my lifestyle!  It's like one day I woke up and never wanted to feel like that ever again...ever!! I started the P90X workout program again and this time I did it everyday, on my rest day I still ran and did some various workouts. This time I was determined! I have always wanted to be a runner, I ran track in high school but since then boy have I lost it. Along with p90x I wanted to try running again, it was tough! When I started out I was only able to run a half lap, I left so disappointed and thought "I'm never going to be able to run a mile without stopping" WRONG! Slowly I pushed myself harder and harder everyday that I ran, I finally made it a mile without stopping. It's not that I couldn't do it, I needed to believe that I could and that's when the magic happened! Training the lungs and the mind was all I needed to do! Needless to say I can run almost 5 miles now without stopping, goal for the new year is 6 miles. When I finished the program in June, I had lost 31 pounds and 7 pant sizes! I couldn't believe it, never thought I could achieve something so great, but I did! I still continued to run and do other workouts because now I realize that fitness and eating healthy are very important in my life. Running and workouts are now my life, I couldn't imagine not doing either. In the end I have lost a total of 41 pounds and 8 pant sizes. I am now looking into toning, gaining more muscle mass in my arms and my Abs. I'm looking to find a crossfit gym and getting into dance.  You don't "need to lose weight" to workout, you should do it for your body, as well as feeding your body good, healthy, nutritious meals not the ones you pull from a box or the freezer! I'm now working on MY body for MYSELF, no one else! When you start, it's going to be hard, it wont be easy, if it were easy everybody would be doing it. Your head is going to quit first, you have to learn how to silence the mind, you have no idea what your body is capable of doing, you're stronger than you believe...first thing first, you must believe you can do it!! Every expert was once a beginner! 


~No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone on the couch



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