Biggest Adventure yet! BEACHBODY COACHING!!

Hello! I have recently embarked on a new journey - I am working for Beachbody as a Coach! I am really excited about this opportunity. It will allow me to share what I have learned and help others achieve the results I have achieved during my own Beachbody Challenge!

Not sure who Beachbody is? Beachbody is the company responsible for putting out workout programs such as Hip Hop Abs, Turbo Jam, Brazilian Butt Lift, Yoga Booty Ballet, Turbo Fire, ChaLEAN Extreme, p90x and Insanity. Beachbody is a wellness company who developed Shakeology and sell a variety of other suppliments to meet your body's needs.

Shakeology is a completely natural wellness shake. Use it as a recovery drink like my husband, or use it as a meal replacement like me - you will feel the benefits from it very quickly. Its all natural ingredients allow your body to have more energy, less cravings and feel satisfied long after drinking your shakes! The shakes come in multiple flavors and you have the choice for them to even be Vegan approved! For more information and to hear doctor's comments, head over to www.shakeology.com/kaylaski.

As I had mentioned above, I joined Beachbody in July as part of a 30 day challenge! It was a fast month of working hard, enjoying shakes and checking in with my other challenge mates for support and ideas to keep going. There were only 10 rules to follow during this challenge!
10 Challenge Group Commitments:

1. I will follow the program.
2. I will drink Shakeology once a day.
3. I will positively engage with the small group.
4. I will log my workouts in WOWY Supergym.
5. I will not over train.
6. I will share my activity.
7. I will share my physical results.
8. I will share my emotional and social results.
9. I will finish.
10. I will pay it forward.

During my challenge I used ChaLEAN Extreme, losing 6 lbs in 30 days (1.5 lbs a week!) and 12.5 total inches off my body. These programs work. I will not promise you that it will be easy, but I know they work! For more about my journey you can visit my weight loss journey blog at www.fatgirlshred.blogspot.com.

In September, I am starting my very own Challenge Group! My rules will be few and we will work mostly through social media. Beachbody offers different Challenge Pack varieties that include your workout program and Shakeology at a discounted price.

Kayla's 8 Challenge Group Commitments

1. I will follow my chosen program.
2. I will drink Shakeology once a day.
3. I will engage with the small group - sharing activity, physical, emotional and social results.
4. I will log my workouts in WOWY Supergym - it's a free chance to win $MONEY$.
5. I will send in my photographed weight to my coach on the designated days.
6. I will finish my challenge.
7. I will log in and track my food at www.myfitnesspal.com or on the myfitnesspal app DAILY
8. I will pay it forward.

If you are interested, when you sign up for a Challenge Group, you can join yourself as a Beachbody Coach for FREE. There is a monthly fee to continue being an active coach. If you are active duty military, you can be a coach for FREE with all monthly fees waved as well! All coaches will get 25% off all products too!

If you want to learn more about Beachbody or their products, visit me at www.teambeachbody.com/kaylaski. There is no time like the present and you can achieve results any age! Are you ready for the challenge?

Set Back?

I didn't win the challenge. Set back? No. It is all a mental thing. We could allow ourselves to give up or quit everytime something doesn't go our way. Disappointed, yes - and that's okay. However, I will not allow this to consume my day or even more than a moment! I am choosing to use this as a two things

1. A learning lesson. I put in a ton of hard work but I also know where I need to fix things now - how you eat is just as important as how you work out. If you keep eating like you always did you will weigh what you always weighed!
2. This was NOT a loss. This was a jump start. I am not going to be able to do challenges to push me the rest of my life. I will ONLY be able to do my best. I know I will have slip ups - you are not honest if you say you will not. Life happens.

This challenge has shown me what can be done and what I am capable of. I never thought I would ever be able to:
- use 20lb free weights
- do forearm planks and rotate my hips from side to side
- do burpees/mountain climber burpees in a turbo and do them ALL
- learn to love the way my elbows burn and feel nauseated when I push so hard
- run 1.5 miles without stopping
- be brave enough to sign up for four 5k runs and a Survival Run
- want to put working out as a priority
- be an inspiration to people
- be comfortable working out with my husband in the same room
- do some bycicle ab workouts and scissor kick abs!
- ever be able to wear shorts again

I want to tell Cory a big thank you for taking me on this Challenge, I am very grateful I got to be a part of it. It really PUSHED me to the next level I needed to be at mentally and physically to get the job done to really live out the fat girl shred!

-Kayla-

My photo Journey



So there is my picture photo journey!

Here is my beginning before (below) and after (above) for this challenge

MY NEW MEASUREMENTS!

Thigh Before 29" After 26"

Hips Before 52" After 49"

Waist Before 46.5" After 43.5"

Arm Before 14" After 12.5"

Bust Before 42" After 40"

Last Day of Challenge!

Time has just flown by! I mean really - I thought these last 30 days would really be the death of me. When I started out I weight more, I was a larger, more tired person. I was grumpier and had a shorter temper. When I committed to this, I knew I was ready and I wanted to- but what I DIDN'T know was how much I would enjoy it! I didn't know how much I would grow in my confidence and I didn't know my husband and I would connect better through working out! (Nothing like telling your husband why you don't want to be seen naked! That really opens the floor to a lot of conversation!)  I thought I would just push through it and work to get it done, but not really work to LOVE it and now I DO!

Today in turbo kick, it went by so fast! And Abby did turbo after turbo today! It felt GOOD though. At the end, today, I wasn't ready to be done. That is an accomplishment in itself! When I did get tired during a turbo - I looked over at Karen and thought Damn! She was killing it today! So I pushed myself harder. I wasn't in competition, but I was inspired to DO MORE! We were so sweaty by the end of the workout that during forearm planks, we both were sliding on our sticky mats!

So I am reading Chalene Johnson's book, PUSH. I really like it. She has a whole chapter on Fat Free Friends. Friends who push you, who are drama free, healthy, supportive and successful! I am so thankful for my group of ladies who have joined me on my journey. I am so thankful to have an immediate support group and I am grateful that the circle has been growing! Thank you so much Melissa, Karen, Grace, Cory, Lissa, Erin, and Deb! You ladies have either given me support, kept me trying, joined me in a work out or lead by example. I am very grateful to you!

Of course, I am also very grateful to my Super Fat Free Husband! He has pushed me to tears! There have been workouts I have been so wanting to throw up in and he says "So go throw up, rinse your mouth and come back!"  Through this challenge he was one person who called me out when I wasnt working to my full potential. He praised me and he really pushed me!

Tonight I will post my final challenge pictures and inches measurments. Tomorrow is our last weigh in day so I will post the final results tomorrow. Still got time today to go kill it! 

Please keep following me to my next goal - running and SUCCESSFULLY completeing The Survival Run! I will be posting pictures of training and my progress. Just because this challenge is over does NOT mean that I am done with this transformation! I have too much to lose if I give up everything I have gained in only 30 days!

-Kayla-

Starting to Feel the Pressure!

I started this whole blog to help keep myself accountable and while on my journey I have heard a lot of people saying I am an inspiration and they are proud of me. It has felt so good to hear all that stuff! It definitely kept me going.

I am so nervous about this final weigh in. I weighed myself yesterday (Friday) and I have GAINED two pounds. I am confident it will go back down by Wednesday, but still - it is discouraging. I am not a person of patience and I am annoyed to see that I have put on weight when I know I am putting in the time and tracking my calories. I also just want so badly for people to see that I am putting my money where my mouth is. Both literally and metaphorically. I have invested a lot of time, money and dedication to this and I so badly want to just have it pay off.

“The truth is we all get tired, we all get weary. In fact, if you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small. If you never feel like quitting, then you need to set some larger goals. When that pressure comes to get discouraged and to think about how you can’t take it anymore, that is completely normal. Every person feels that way at times.”

- via Joel Osteen Ministries

 

Today I kind of felt like giving up. Today I did not want to work out, but not like how I haven't before - it was because today I felt defeated! I felt like I am not going to win this challenge. I have slipped up here and there and I am irritated. The scale is not reflecting my hard work. I feel like somewhere I am messing up. It doesn't help that I am a VERY competitive person. Others are seeing my progress but it's the worse when I cannot see it. So to keep me going I have decided to stop thinking about ONLY the challenge - it sounds crazy but I think maybe the pressure of only have like three days left is making me kinda crazy. I have enrolled in a few 5k runs --

September 15 - Fit for Fall 5k with the YMCA

September 29 - Survival Run (Mud Run)

September 30 - Race for the Cure

October 6 - Color Run

 

Please don't misunderstand me. I have NOT given up on my challenge. I still am finishing those workouts and doing my best to win! I just have to get in a mind set that I need to keep going AFTER my challenge is over. I need to get in the mind set of training for these runs and trying to get an AWESOME time.

 

I have to make a special shout out to a few friends, Karen. She has been so supportive and really helped me get out of my funks even if she didn't know it. Melissa for congratulating me for accomplishing doing burpees. It meant a lot to see that someone else noticed I DID IT!

 

So please, hold me accountable. Encourage me. Ask me questions and check up on me. I will be honest, the pictures will show it. I want to keep being that inspiration. I want to be that role model for big girls (or anyone really) to know, you can do it!

 

-Kayla-

Working out for.. my marriage?

There are so many reasons we work out.

To impress someone
To lose weight
To get better confidence
To train for an event
To tone and tighten up
To help your marriage

While it is a no brainer on why working out makes a marriage better - today my husband told me some info that caught me off guard a little bit. He said I was a happier person on the days when I work out. I was kind of surprised by this announcement. I always try to be nice to my family. I never wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning and think "I'm going to go out of my way to be nasty today - especially in my marriage."

It's kinda interesting though - working out it has been quite an experience for my husband, John, and I. I think I shared a little before, but I was really thin when I started dating John, even after I had my first daughter, things came back to where they were supposed to be! Over six years and two more kids, I don't know what did it or when it REALLY happened, but I had gained over 60 lbs. I was embarrassed to share how much I weighed or the size of my clothes. I began a long fad of yo yo dieting and working out and before I knew it, my closet was filled with fat girl clothes.

One day I went through my closet to make space for new things and I had to get rid of old clothes that didn't fit anymore. It was kinda of heart breaking. Then I decided I didn't care if I was over weight. I would rather do fun things with my family and be fat and happy! I didn't REALLY feel that way, but it was a better way of dealing with it than the hard work I knew I would have to put in to really be that person I felt like but clearly didn't look like.

At one point in our marriage, it was very rocky too! I mean I think we all have gone through our chapter in marriage where things are looking grim, where you aren't sure what is going to happen in the next few weeks but you know it can make or break your marriage! During that time I tried really hard to lose weight. I had two reasons, I wanted to be irresistible to him and if we didn't stay together, I wanted him to miss what he had. Let me tell you - THOSE ARE STUPID REASONS! I did get results, but they didn't last. It didn't last because it was for the wrong reasons. Losing weight will not solve you marriage's issues. That takes communication.

In August, I wanted to lose weight. My oldest daughter started school and since I have to take and pick her up, I had no excuses why I couldn't get right to the gym. So I started going on a regular basis. I think that since I wanted this for ME  it worked! And because I wanted this for me, my husband was so supportive and that opened up the doors of communication in a part of my life that I never wanted to share with him. You should want to share every aspect of your life with your LIFE partner.

On my list of goals, I never wrote "I want better communication with my Husband. I want him to know how much I hate being over weight and how much I want to be better at my life, starting with my health!" But that's where I am now. I am noticing that since I can tell him I am a fatty mcfat fat and I can SEE that he doesn't care and loves me anyway and supports me in my journey - I can tell him ANYTHING - even about the pair of shoes or new workout pants I have bought :)

I guess John's comment today really made me reflect on how much more working out and getting healthy is for me and our marriage. More than a size goal, a weight goal or a timed race goal - it's really creating a whole new part of life for us - and I kinda like it!

-Kayla-

OMG - WEEK FOUR!

When I began writing this blog, it was about 2 weeks prior to my challenge. I cannot believe today (Monday) kicked off the beginning of week 4! I officially only have 10 days left. This to me is insane.
I have decided to add some updated pictures. I am feeling a lot stronger, but to be honest - I am not seeing anything great with my looks. Maybe its because It is ME and I don't notice it. I have gotten some compliments, but I am really ready to see it all just fall off - literally, just all the weight fall off!



first set of pictures. grey and blue hot MESS is the earliest working to the left for the newest (at that time)

at the beginning of the challenge







week 2ish

So there is my photo journey. I do see changes. Not like what I WANT to see, but I did that in 20 days, so lets see what can happen in the next 10!!!

-Kayla-

Hurt Feelings

When a child says something horrifically truthful but not always PC - we like to say "Out of the mouths of babes" BUT really, it can be hurtful.

Today while working out my daughter had informed me I looked weird. A few days ago she informed me I looked like a Chinese Dancer. I have no clue what that meant, but she thought she was making a joke. I shrugged it off. But today - today after she informed me I looked "weird" she took it a step further to close our blinds. I asked her what are you doing? She replied to me that I was embarrassing her. Ouch!

Throughout my journey, I was hoping to make my habits be an inspiration to her or make her have a drive to want to be physically active as well! I wanted her to know that being fit was a good thing and to do the whole "monkey see - monkey do" thing. Today stung. It almost shook me to be embarrassed to do it in front of her. I actually sent her to her room cause she really hurt my feelings. It was weird to be slightly wounded by a five-year-old's words. We had been through the "I want a new mom" stage and "I don't like you." I didn't care about any of those things. I knew she didn't really mean it and that it was because that occasion didn't pan out the way she had wanted. This time was different. I think maybe I want her to be proud of her mom.

I finished the work out and she came out of the room and did the ab part of it with me, but still as I reflect I want to know why did that bother me so much? If I didnt care if the neighbors saw me doing kick boxing, why on earth should she. Have I not given her confidence? Is she lacking in the extravert catagory?

I will continue doing my workouts and maybe as time goes on, she will be more proud and less embarrassed of me. Either way, this girl is not done with her fat girl shred!

-Kayla-