Change Must Happen

On Mother's Day 2017, my husband and my daughter took me to the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville, NC. It is one my all time favorite places in the area. I've been wishing and asking if we could go see their Rose Garden for a few years now.

I loved every minute that we were there and I got to reminisce about my very first trip there. Which was my Mother's Day in 2009, when my beautiful daughter was born. It was my first trip with a newborn and my first stay on the grounds of the Biltmore Estate. I was truly enjoying myself until I saw the photos that were taken mimicking the first trip. 

Seeing this photo it makes me happy and sad at the same time. I love spending the time with my daughter. She is my inspiration to be a better person and mother. I am disgusted at myself and how much weight I show in the bottom photo. I weigh an unhealthy 225 lbs in the photo and have never weighed this heavy in my life. I have a lot of life experiences that have caused undue stress and oh am I a stress eater. So I made a promise to myself that I was going to change that and I didn't know where to begin. 

I knew that I didn't have the motivation or discipline to go work out or even walk around the neighborhood. I don't have the motivation most days to go out in the yard and tend the garden or take care of the rabbits. I just kind of ride my husbands coat tails and do enough to say I did something. Sad, huh? 

So after my 33rd birthday this year, I have started small steps -- bought a Fitbit Charge 2. It challenges me daily to walk and get up from my desk and move. I have signed up for the app, My Fitness Pal which helps me log calories and watch what I eat. Apparently, the calorie count is the goal to hit and THEN not go over. My app told me that I needed to eat more calories here lately. The biggest and best thing that I have started has been this product called THRIVE. 

I'm not a promotor of the product so this is not a paid advertisement for the brand but I must say this product is SO life changing. After I posted my experience about my Biltmore trip, a friend from high school reached out to me and started to introduce me to the product. I am a very skeptical person when it comes to products like this. A monthly service that you sign up for not knowing if i

t's going to work for you or if you'll even stick with it.

So I made up my mind after seeing her energy with chasing 3 kids daily. I wanted a change and I got it! I bought all 3 stages of their 8 week lifestyle plan and gave it a few days. My body seemed to know that it was craving these minerals and vitamins that the program gives you. I have NEVER felt so alive and content in my life. 

Depression....GONE! Weight Loss.....5 lbs down in a week! General Discomfort......NO longer there! This is all just after a week. I can't wait to see what 8 weeks or even a year brings me!!