Fluffy to Fabulous: A Guest Post!!!

I am thrilled that my dear friend Stephanie has submitted a guest post!!! I love how she describes herself, although I find her to be a very sweet, kind hearted lady. Enjoy!

So…I’m not really a blogging kind of girl.  I don’t like to share my “feelings”.  I don’t really like people to get inside my head (I think it might be a little scary for most people).  I’m not a touchy feely person and I guess my thinking is that blogging takes a little bit of that so I have generally shied away.  My oldest son says I’m cold-hearted, but that usually comes on the tail end of him asking for something and me saying no.  But he may be on to something…who knows?  I prefer to call myself a realist.  It sounds nicer. J

Now that being said I do love the optimism of starting on a project or a lifestyle change, but generally quickly find myself sliding into the realistic part of me that says I’m never really going to finish said project or keep up with a daunting lifestyle change.   That doesn’t stop me from doing so over and over though.

In this vein I started doing Crossfit back in November 2012.  I didn’t know how long I would stick with it, but I have to say I LOVE IT!  I love the feeling of working my body.  I (strangely enough) love the feeling of being sore for days afterwards knowing that I worked hard.  I look forward to Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays when I can go to the box (that’s what we Crossfitters call the gym).

A couple of years ago I started having some health issues, but mostly ignored them because that’s what I do.  My allergist sent me to an internist to have my thyroid checked and well let’s just say it’s got some issues.  However, due to my fantastic blood work the traditional doctors I went to see decided we were going to play a wait and see game with my health.   Not good.  I recently started seeing a great lady named Dr. Pulse who does a lot of nutritional health.  She started me on some supplements and suggested I try the Paleo diet.  The trainers at the box have suggested this too.  So after some research and planning I decided to give it a go.  I started today.  I am going to give it 30 days and see how it goes.  Paleo coffee creamer is not as good as it looks.

Why am I telling you this?  According to the books I have read on the subject of making lifestyle changes accountability is a great motivator.    So you my fellow fabulous fluffies are my accountability.    I don’t generally share when I do things like this because I hate feeling like I am looking for validation or that others think I am.  I don’t want to be like the skinny girl who is always telling everyone how fat she is in order to get compliments.   But I think there is something to be said for not wanting to tell people I quit something.  I’m not much of a quitter.  I’m big on challenges.  I think this is going to be one.  My goal is to lose 20 lbs., and get some of my health issues under control.

I think I can do this and be successful.  My husband and I did the 21 day Daniel fast last year and we lived to tell the tale and were enriched for doing it.   So I want you ladies to keep me accountable.  I don’t need touch feely, but if I stumble I might need someone to say “suck it up sissy and get back on track.”  That’s just how I roll.  God knew what he was doing when he gave me 3 boys.

Have a great day!!

Stephanie