“What inspired me to wake up from this sugar coma I was in, stop living a victim life and blaming others, and seek a lifestyle transformation!” >>> Boy, that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? It’s a big question to ponder on, but I’ve got the answer!
My story started when I got pregnant with my first baby boy, Freddy. I’ve always wanted to have a lot of kids and I didn’t realize how awful my nutrition was and how unsustainable my lifestyle was until I become pregnant. I started at my ideal weight 115! I was a full time graduate student and had two part time jobs: teaching accounting at a community college and Teacher’s assistant at my university. All of my classes were night classes every night including Saturday morning class. So I kept running around between jobs and school and home and I found myself eating whatever I was in plain site. I didn’t plan and prep my meals, I just went to the cafeteria and got whatever sounded delicious (and two of each .. lol … no joke)!
My excuses were obvious:
– My busy schedule
– I didn’t think I had control over my nutrition, I thought I was supposed to eat as much as my body wants me to eat per my cravings
– I knew nothing about nutrition so I didn’t know that every time I ate processed food, I was actually depriving my body and growing baby of nutrition
– Emotional eating was a huge factor – I was stressed out, consumed with writing papers and studying for classes and I felt like I deserved to indulge in the cookies and ice create
I GOT CRITICIZED A LOT
I was gaining like 10 lbs every month! I hit over 165 (and then I stopped looking at the scale) at the end of my pregnancy. I didn’t understand why my doctors were criticizing me so much and it didn’t make sense? I was just growing a baby and eating to make sure baby and I are nourished. Right?! I didn’t know what they meant and what they wanted me to do. I was even told to stop eating breads, rice, pasta, and sugars. I knew they wanted me to just eat salads, but Lord, I have never just ate salads and now I am growing a huge baby! It felt I was eating salads and still growing large!
It was so strange because I have always eaten this way (carbs laden foods) and I was always skinny and healthy? So why all of a sudden now, I am considered endangered specie and have to now complete change my life in 2 days!
So as soon I come out of the doctors office crying, I would right away start eating salads and within 3 days I would revert back to my old habits because I am hungry and frustrated and simply don’t know enough to about nutrition, or how is it even posible to change everything up in a matter of a week! I would revered back to eating the sugars and processed foods.
My whole first pregnancy was very frustrating. With eating poorly, I gained a lot of wait and with that came the constant body ache in every area of the body. I was having back pain, hip pain, restless leg syndrome. Couldn’t sleep any more, couldn’t ride in the car any more.
I was miserable! I had a friend who gained nothing during her pregnancy which went at the same time as mine! I was looking like an elephant and barely moving and she was still jogging! At this point I am extremely frustrated with everyone’s criticism and just waiting for the baby to come. I never took pictures of me at the end of my first pregnancy, I gained more than half of my initial weight and I didn’t want to see that again!
It’s so nice and easy to criticize! But there was no one that took the time to tell me what was considered a nutritious plan, to share recipes, how to plan my meals for my busy week, what to do with snacking, how to pick the right foods, how much time I should spend prepping my meals and how many meals to have a day.
All the doctor’s comments were doing is upset me more! And we all know what an upset mama does to cope! She eats ice –cream!
Now that I am a health and fitness coach, I know exactly what the body needs to stay energetic, active and healthy! I know how to meal plan and meal prep! I know how many meals I should eat and when! I know to drink Shakeology to simplify nutrition for me. I know what to do when I am emotional. I know how to eat when pregnant! I know what to eat when I am nursing my baby … it’s taken me years to get to a point where my old habits are fully removed by new and improved nutrition habits!
But I needed to fall pretty deep into the rabbit hall to realize, I NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE!
And you can do it too!!! YOU CAN!!
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