What do I want to do with my life?
Help people who were just like me 6 years ago. Having miscarriages and being a high risk pregnancy is a super tough thing. I knew so badly that I wanted to be a mother that I would have done anything. That includes sitting on the couch with minimal activity for fear that I would jiggle my little love bundle out of me. Oh wait....that is exactly what happened. Yep, I gained a whooping 80 pounds with my first pregnancy. I wasn't even worried about it because I just knew I would lose 20 pounds in the hospital. Whoever spoon fed me that lie..I am looking for you. The stress of being a new mom, not eating, not sleeping, and breastfeeding helped me lose about 40 pounds. After, it was all determination to quit wearing maternity pants that got me through to another 20 pound loss. Before I knew it I was pregnant again. This time I gained another whooping 60 ish pounds. At this point I was so ashamed of my body that I had a nervous breakdown outside of an old navy in Sherman, Texas. I was mortified to run outside for fear that someone would point and laugh. I didn't want to go to a gym because I felt I didn't belong there. Thank God for an amazing and supportive husband who went out and bought me a treadmill and let me accumulate enough equipment to workout at home. I started researching how to work certain body parts and how to eat healthy. Magazines and DVD's piled up from all of the things I wanted to try and eventually I realized that I had a passion developing.
Fast forward...short version...I became a personal trainer, let my certification go due to me providing services for free, started running half marathons, did my first triathlon, acquired a hip injury, went back to school with a major in business, kept waitressing, foreclosed on our house, moved to the country, lost weight, put on weight, started my Advocare journey, worked on my marriage, and finally worked on me. The working on me thing is still a work in progress.
Now, I have been working on what I truly want to do. Free or not. My mission is to help every single mom out there with the same struggles. I believe that there should be a place or a person that soon to be moms, pregnant women, or mom's who just had a baby can go to for information, seminars, fitness classes, and I also think it would be awesome to have a place that fully catered to the new mom. I dream about it most nights. I didn't have a place like that. I didn't have someone that could teach me how to make baby food, that could teach me how to alleviate back pain while pregnant, and I didn't have someone helping me to remain fit during pregnancy so I could bounce back after pregnancy. Information was minimal.
What steps am I taking? Currently I am studying my little heart out. After the first of the year I will be getting my PT certification, group certification, and pre/post natal certification. As that is occurring I will start building awareness. I have set up all of my social media sites except twitter and I will continue to build my webpage..(which I have to research as well because I have no idea how to build a webpage).
I can't wait to show people what I have been working on.
