Post Maternity Fitness Programs

What Steve and N-10sive bootcamp have done for me is pushed me to the next level.   I
can honestly say that when I leave a bootcamp I can tell myself that I pushed 110%,
sometimes more with Steve pushing me to go a little harder, a little faster, work till
failure!

At the beginning of April my family and I made dinner in a flash, went out for dinner 2
sometimes 3 times a week whether it was take out or going down the local bar for some
greasy bar food.   Sure I worked out, maybe a 3 mile run and some situps.  That was
working out hard back then.   When I decided to jump in and put my health first things
had to change not only when I went to bootcamp but when I was home as well.   To make
the transformation I have I get up before my family is up and usually return as they are
getting out of bed.   As soon as I get off work instead of spending an hour winding down
before I pick my girls up from daycare I go for a run and then pick them up. Time
management is huge with the diet portion of the transformation; it means preparing meals
the day before or sometimes on Sundays so there are no excuses.  This means extra trips
to the grocery store for fresh vegetables and fruit.   When the kids want something that
I know will come back to bite me it means making an egg white omlete for myself…  it
means my kids are reminding me to stick to my diet,  it means my family is exercising
more, it means that we have changed our lives and made sacrifices so that not only I am
healthier but my family is as well.  Sure I get the just one piece isn’t going to kill
you… etc etc…  but I know that my family is on board and I am seeing success so I 
will not turn back.

I believe that there are many keys to success.   Through out this transformation I have
had Steve to help push me and keep me on track.  I have also had my coworkers and
friends that help give me a gentle push to stay ‘out of my comfort zone with my diet and
exercise’.  Instead of going out for dinner and a drink we meet to exercise; instead of
going out for lunch at work we pack our lunches and discuss healthy recipees and food
choices we haven’t discovered on our own yet.   Sure sometimes I ask myself why and tell
my self I am just going to take one day off.  Then I think about not wanting to let
myself down and how I would feel letting Steve and my frineds know that I just decided
not to….   that would kill me.   I stay motivated watching other people transform
their lives and looking at how their lives, self esteem and physique change.   I stay
motivated by never wanting to have to put on ‘my fat pants again’. Unless for a picture
to show the transformation.  I stay motivated by others telling me I have inspired
them… I do not want to let them down. I stay motivated for my family.  I stay
motivated through Steve and his program monitoring my progress, pushing me a little
harder, answering my questions and making sure that I have the tools to be who I want to
be and not who it is easy to be.