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So, me (2017) and me this morning after my run. You asked for details into my journey and damn there are a lot of them. This is the abridged version. It’s cliched, but until I realized my “why”, things never clicked. (Thread 1 of 10)
Because every time I wanted to lose weight it was about someone else. My ex, my kids, but it was never about me. I owned the karate school since 2012, but was not living what I was teaching. In 2017, I started working out for like 2 hours a day.
My diet stayed trash though. I lost about 20 pounds with my crazy work out schedule. It was a schedule I couldn’t keep. And I gained the weight back and then some. I went through this same cycle about 3 times from 2016-2017. Then I found Krav Maga in Jan of 2017.
I fell in love with it more than any style I’d trained in. I worked like crazy getting ready for my Krav instructor certification. And this time I started eating cleaner. I dropped another 20. And then another 20. I got my instructor certification in late 2017.
It was a week long 60 hour training test that I thought I wouldn’t survive. Lol my whole body looked like this (one huge bruise). But I loved it!! But In mid 2018, a health crisis and emergency surgery that saved my life derailed me again. No weight gain but I lost my fitness.
As soon as I was medically cleared I went for my recertification in Krav and failed. Not surprisingly, I hadn’t done anything for months. I was crushed and embarrassed. I was teaching without passion. I never allowed myself to gain 60 lbs but I was close to giving up again.
I found my “why” during covid. When the state closed me down, I knew if I wanted to keep my business I had to keep them engaged. Do you know how hard it is to keep someone (kids and adults) excited about working out through Zoom? I had to get excited so they would be too.
And holy hell it worked! While other schools in my area were going out of business, I was growing! And I realized that people were inspired by that passion. I was inspired by my passion. And I sat down to write out the life I wanted. I started reading. I talked to people.
Mainly women who were my age and felt they were existing not living. Exactly how I had felt years ago. A lot of times it was because of their weight and their health. This caused depression and anxiety. Walking at the park, I listened to podcasts about weight and depression.
Then I started running. We are still teaching classes about 50% virtually. So here I am on Twitter. Learning what I can about how to reach people. Because I am amped to teach people; about self defense, fitness and just living the life God intended.
