Challenge Me

So many of you may or may not know that I thrive on competition and accountability. I just joined another weigh in challenge two days ago - it's teams of two and winner takes home a pot of 2400 buckaroos! My partner is Christina. It's kind of funny, our relationship. A now good friend I hold dear, was once my husband first Prom Date! Funny, right? Here's a little more added humor, my daughter and her son like to hate each other... my daughter has a crush on her son! It's really crazy the people that Beachbody have brought into my life and how much I love that I am around a lot of like minded people, from faith to fitness! My challenge is 30 days, I am really excited about it! My husband is totally on board with me and I have been shoving my face full of fruit, veggies, and Shakeology and ya know that? I LOVE it. So keep me accountable guys!

I posted about my resolutions and goals for the up and coming year. I joined another personal challenge lead by Chalene Johnson. A 30 day push challenge. It really just helps you focus on your goals and create a way to get there without going crazy! I am determined. I really want it. I want to succeed in a job I really do love and I want to be present in every aspect of my children's life!

Today was Day One.
Today was an overview of what the 30 day PUSH challenge will hold. Our homework was this: think about what you would want to be remembered by, what do you want people to know you for, what principles guide you, what is your calling?
My kids. Everything I do, I do around my kids. I never want to work in a building where my kids are not until they all are in school. Until they all are so self sufficient I don't feel bad not helping them!
My faith. I try to raise my kids in church. I want them to know its more than knowing who Jesus is but believing in the entirety of Him. I could write an awful lot on the ways I know God exists and answered prayers I have seen and miracles I am watching in the making. All things are given and taken away by God and I pray that my life shows my belief in Him. I am a work in progress and I am thankful for all the grace and mercy that is shown to me, daily.
My family. There are so many times I would love to just pick up and move, but I don't. Why? My family. I don't know what I would do with out them. We put the FUN in dysfunctional! It may not be perfect, but its precious.
Service and presence. I want people to remember me and know me by my willingness to serve and be present. Not to get an atta-boy, but I want people to remember that I was a servant and tried to lead by example. I want to show success in my business because I am wanting to help others.  Did my kids see me helping others.... did they see me helping them?

This year is going to be more than just changing physically - I want it to be mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Here's to transformation 2013. I expect slip ups, I expect triumphs and I expect success because I expect to push forward!


-Kayla-

New Year.. New Goals

Happy New Year!
Every year we have the same goals and the same ambition for about two weeks and then we fizzle out. At least I do. So this year I decided (again) this year is MY year. You know why it's different for me this time? Because I have an awesome husband who is supporting me. I have two aunt-in-laws who are on the same journeys and I have friends who want me to succeed. I have begun to do it for ME and not for anyone else. Let's recap the last few "new years resolution" failures...

Lose weight to look hot for my husband
Lose weight for my kids
Lose weight to wear skinnier jeans
Lose weight because so and so is and I am in a private competition with them... they don't know it though!

All of these things have included "for" and ended with... not me. Call me selfish or call me lazy because all of these reasons are good, legit reasons; and, I am sure great motivation for some people. For me, however, they are not. I mean I want my husband to want to show me off and I want to be healthy to be active and play around my kids more and who doesn't want to rock a pair of kick ass jeans? I do! I DO! But being in competition with someone is stupid and the minute one of the former things happens to piss you off or frustrate you - you are done! Once that one birthday cake is in your face.. these reasons didn't stop me from eating it. Here is my reason for wanting to finally be healthy...

BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE SKINNY STICK GIRL. I WANT TO BE A FIT CHICK. MY HUSBAND ALREADY LOVES ME! I don't have anything to prove to anyone else! I cannot and will not compare my journey to anyone. I want to do it for me! I am not comfortable anymore with myself. For the first time I do not feel like the skinny girl who is trapped in the fat chicks body.

Since July I have been on my true, focused journey and I have grown so close to my husband. My kids want to work out with me. We are going outside to play at local parks and I have made so many new friends who are like minded and support me in all my running and work out endeavours. I joined a business that doesn't push sales, they push healthy attitudes and helping people! I like sharing my results, my set backs and my goals and during my lifestyle transformation I have started 6 months ago. I am not embarrassed or ashamed of being over weight because I know where I was and how far I have come. I have reconnected with another good friend, Christina.

Not trying to toot my own horn here, but I am pretty darn proud of what the last 6-8 months have brought me!

Ran my first 5k - Glass City
Ran in the Color Run
Ran in the Survival Race (mud run)
Ran in the YMCA 5k
I dropped my mile run by 6 minutes
I lost 16 inches and 37 lbs from my heaviest starting weight
I went from a size 18/20 to a 12/14
I helped people weight totaling over 100 lbs. and over 20 inches

Not too shabby for only about 7 months time. Here's the thing, I now know I am capable of MORE. I can do BETTER! My mind, body, and soul are continually being conditioned with a positive attitude that tells me to do MORE - be BETTER... and yours should be too! So here are my newest goals or if your will, resolutions:

Fitness:
Run in the Glass City Half Marathon in April and just aim for a finish
Run in the Detroit area Tough Mudder in June/July
Finish in this order CheLEAN Extreme, Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire and begin to attempt Insanity
Be in a comfortable size that makes ME feel good
Home:
Be more organized for my kids
Take a dance class
Audition for a few musicals
Continue in my Beachbody Business and advance in rank - earning John and I all the FREE vacations I can to enjoy that husband of mine more - one on one

What are your resolutions? What's your motivation behind it? What is going to keep you on the wagon when you feel like falling off? If you are reading this, I do have a favor to ask - please keep me accountable with my journey. I am here to help you too - I am only but an email away! 2012 ended with a great beginning for me and now I know 2013 is my year!

-Kayla-

a new challenge you say?

So, as most of you know, I am a beachbody coach. (no I am not trying to sell you anything, this is just important to know for the story about my crazy night with my husband) I want to do the Ultimate Reset - a detoxing, ph balancing, taking you down to  vegan diet to reset your body, 21 day program. It is kind of a pricey program, but well worth it. My husband, the forever skeptic, tells me this morning that he has thought about it, and if I work out for two hours a day and drink one Shakeology a day. Not hard, just have to increase the workout time. I can do this! No problem. We start the reset on November 26 and will end just before Christmas. It will be good accountability.

So as my night continues, I go over homework with my daughter, get her backpack ready and settle down to watch my fave show, Once Upon a Time. My husband says, are you going to workout? I say yes and shortly after Revenge starts, I get my shoes on and put on Turbo Jam. John, ever so sweetly goes into the kitchen and puts dinner away and then I smell something... something with grease. I asked him if he ate something and I get told no. Apparently I asked the wrong question because he later fesses up he cooked something - left over pizza. Left over really meaty greasey pizza. So while I am kicking, punching, jabbing and getting my jenga on, John is eating two pieces of Ginos pizza. He then begins with the comments, reach higher, kick harder, stop doing low impact... yadda yadda yadda...

I started teasing him about his eating habits and then comes a challenge... challenge number 2! My big stinking mouth says, "I bet I can lose 20 lbs before you can!" Crap. This man can just think diet and loses 15 lbs. I know this because during my July challenge, he did! So here goes nothing. I am on another challenge. My goal is to do it before I even start my reset and really stick it to him and his fatty food eating, beer drinking self! I love you John, but this means war!

-Kayla-