Hi my name is Donna! I am new to blogging so please bare with me. Here is a little about myself, I am 53 years old, for the first 47 years of my life I lived In Pennsylvania. My husband and I moved to Bradenton, FL 6 years ago when my youngest daughter came here for college and my husband got a job in Tampa.
Before we moved I was very depressed to the point that I didn’t care if I lived or not. I had back issues and nothing made me happy. I hated having my picture taken and a low self-esteem. Don’t get me wrong my life was not bad per say, I had friends and family in PA that we did almost everything with. We had a lot of good times but I just couldn’t shake that feeling of depression at the end of the day. It didn’t matter what I did, the fact of the matter was I was not happy. I hated the snow and the cold and those long winter months really took a toll on me emotionally. I have always wanted to live in a warm climate so moving to Florida was just the change I needed.
Once we moved to sunny southwest Florida my life changed a bit. I was happier overall and was feeling better about my life. My back didn’t seem to hurt as bad as it did in the colder weather and as for the depression I could feel that weight lifting little by little. All just because the sun was shining every day of the week every thing seemed better. It really is amazing how much the weather can effect the way you feel everyday and I could really tell the difference in just the first couple of days. I started wanting my life to be better and the next logical step was my physical health.
When my daughter and now son-in-law decided to get married they started on a 21 day workout plan. I watched what they were doing but in my mind and my way of thinking at that time was thats you should not workout everyday of the week. You need to only workout 3 days a week and rest. Plus watching some of the moves that they were doing I thought, this old lady sure could not do them. Then she started a program that was 80 days and I thought well I want to look good for their wedding to so I bit the bullet and started working out with her. I told her that I was doing it for her so she didn’t have to do it alone, and every time she would tell me that cannot be your reason. Then I started feeling better and could see results in the mirror, on the scale, and in my cloths. I lost about 15 pounds before her wedding and that felt great. But it was November and family and friends were here and the holidays were coming so I stopped working out for 2 months and I could feel my body changing back to the way it was before I started exercising. Though I didn’t gain all the weight back I could see the weight coming back. I could tell in my cloths and in the mirror and I really didn’t like that. So In January of 2019 I jumped back into the home workouts.
I started with a 20 min 6 week program and soon I saw some really good results, well then I was totally hooked. I got a free coach with that program who helped keep accountable with my workouts and motived. Then I started the 21 day program that my daughter was doing a year ago that I thought I could not do the moves and I finished that program and the extreme version also.
So I have been on this health journey for a year now and have to say it has been one of the best things I could have done for me and my family. I show up everyday for me and it feels great! There are somedays that I really do not want to do a workout but then I think how good it makes me feel when I am done so I totally push play.
I know that life happens and there are days and times when I will not be able to push play but as long as I have a team of great people and my family who support me I feel I can stay on this journey and I will get to my goal one day.
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