The Christmas Crash

Merry Christmas EVERYONE!!

We had a great Christmas and I am now running into the the great Christmas crash. Christmas is my favorite time of year. I love EVERYTHING about it and gift giving is my love language so it is just the best!  But every year shortly after Christmas I come down from the high of Christmas and realize the impending New Year is just around the corner. The New Year brings about reflection of the last year and while there were some great highs this year, we moved in to our new house and our kids school is going great. But then my reflection always go to what didn't happen or what I haven't accomplished.  

Last New year I deem 2016 the year of health and I am honestly in the same place I was last Christmas. Except last Christmas I could still reflect that I had completed a Half Marathon in 2015 I had some great physical feats that year. Now going into 2017 I have done not much of anything. I've have some great new tools in my hands that I have not been using and my weight sits around 180 now a days.  I am easily winded and find myself sore after a day of cleaning. So reflecting on where I am on physically makes the Christmas crash hit pretty hard. 

Trying to focus on what changes need to be made next year causes me stress and makes me a little depressed. I had gotten to the point where I was completely anti New Years resolutions and would refuse to start a diet anywhere near Jan 1st because it was certainly doomed.  My brain would tell me but everyone who has had a successful New years resolutions say they work. It is only because I condemn it before I even start, And that is setting it up for certain failure. This Year I am hosting my first challenge group. While I don't have any participants yet I am going to try to treat my Facebook Focussing on my feet page as the group for practice while hubby and I work out and I think my Mom is going to join us too!  

I am super excited about Beachbody's new All access On Demand group and I will be upgrading myself to that in the next couple days.  I also think I am going to get a sample back of shakeology so hubby can pick his favorite cause he isn't a big fan of the chocolate. :-)  So while I ma feeling the Christmas crash I am also feeling like change is possible.  I am trying to let go of the fact that my husband will have weight loss and fitness success faster than I will and there is no way around it and Like I've said before for years I have not wanted him to diet with me for this very reason.  I would get so frustrated as I watched him succeed and I fail, or the fact that I wasn't having as fast or much success he was, that I would just shut down and quit.  I have accepted that this needs to happen in order to have a healthy husband. High Blood pressure and heart problems runs in his family and I don't want that future for my husband.  I have High BP and Type 2 diabietes and I don't want that for our future either.  So time to put all other things aside and realize health can no longer be a wish, hope or dream.  It needs action!

My first challenge group.....

A few months back I told you about becoming a beach body coach.  I've felt foolish for signing up as I sit and not focus on my health.  All along my plan was to get some results to post personal before and afters to use to show everyone how amazing this program is.  I know this is the perfect program for me and in the time I did it for a week I had success and was personal trainer sore. I enjoyed my work outs and found myself enjoying how shakology made me feel. I lost 5 lbs that week too. Only to have my eye herpies come back and to not be able to work out.  With Beachbody new health bet that will have unto 3 Million dollars in it and I wanted to make sure I had a challenge group for this but I have no results to share yet.

After allot of thought I decided to go ahead and I am starting my first challenge group anyways.  I don't want anyone to miss out because I was to frustrated with myself for not sticking to it yet.  Having the group will help me stick to my guns especially if I am leading the group.  When I was running and blogging regularly I really enjoyed people being motivated by what I said and what I wrote.  Helping people feel like they could start their fitness journey because of me is what made me consider becoming a personal trainer.   It was also why medifast was appealing but I never agreed with their diet program or the way they acted toward activity.  Then Beachbody showed up in my life.  I watch friends succeed and thrive on these programs and then happened across the container diet plan that looked so much like my beloved LA Weight Loss.  As I dug deeper to discover what this container diet entailed I found it was connected to the very same Beachbody programs my friends and now fellow coaches have been promoting. Both skeptical and cautions I reached out to the friend that reached out to me first about beach body and said ok I want to order the 21 Day fix.

Again I've only done one week of the 21 day fix and it was amazing and it makes me excited to see the results of the full 21 days.  DH will be doing Core De Force and following the same meal plan I am but he gets to eat a little more because one he is a guy and two his work outs are different than mine. I am so glad that he is going to be doing this with me. And I am done with the fear of him succeeding faster than I will. It is going to happen he is a Man.  I know this program is going to work for both of us and I am, dare I say, excited to see the changes in both of us.