Life After I "Dew"

Last week I finished my second round of Focus T25 and I feel great.  It's been exactly two years since I did the program entirely and man did it feel good to sweat and be sore again.  I missed it, truly.

Through the winter I literally get SADD.  I haven't been diagnosed or anything {WebMD to the rescue} but I know my mood changes from about Nov-Feb.  I have little energy, I don't want to go outside, I want to just go to bed and wake up when it's warm.  It affects all areas of my life and I hate that {one day we will live in a warmer state}.

This winter I literally wanted nothing to do with working out.  I didn't want to break a sweat.  I didn't feel like exerting myself physically.  I definitely had no interest in cardio activity.  That was when I turned to yoga.  I need some sort of physical activity in my life or my waistline would pay for it and yoga was right up my alley.  It was just what I needed at the time and I am so thankful I spent two solid months practicing.  I learned a lot about myself during that time.  It was a beautiful thing but once March rolled around I knew I needed more.

I started seeing my T25 pics showing up in Timehop from two years ago.  I started to feel motivated by myself- which is so crazy.  I get emails and comments all the time from people who say that my journey has inspired them but never, not once, have I ever felt inspired by myself.  Seeing all that I accomplished back then, the changes I made, the way my body responded, the motivation I had, it all lit a fire in me that I hadn't had for months.  And so I started T25 again.


I wasn't thrilled with these before pictures. I was mad at what I had let happen over a couple months after finishing my yoga practice. I just started eating whatever, not really tracking when I know how important it is {to me} to track my food.  So the belly fat, the back fat, the cellulite, it was all bad, bad, bad.  But I was hopeful T25 would "fix" all of that.