The Beginning of my Journey

I guess my first blog should explore the reasons why I decided to do a bikini competition in the first place. I started this year with the resolution that I would get back my pre pregnancy body. I'm a mother of 3 and with my first 2 children my body bounced back pretty well I'd say. After my first son I got really heavy into weight training and got down to 114 pounds but when my first husband came back from deployment it slowly climbed back to the 120s and it stayed there so I wasn't complaining. With my daughter I wasn't working out and it took a little longer and my weight fluctuated between 128-131ish.

Fast forward to this year. My starting weight was 160-ouch! I had let myself go and my confidence was gone with it. I was stuck in a size 14 jeans and it hurt me emotionally. Sure I'd seen that size before after I had my children but it was short term. My average size was 8 and I missed it terribly. I'd purchased P90X a few years ago and tried to do it twice and quit about 2 weeks into it. But this year was going to be different. I was going to do P90X and finish it. I that was my initial goal.

But a few weeks into it I realized I needed a bigger motivator. And I admired the girls in the bikini division for their hard work, beautiful bodies, and lifestyle. That's what I wanted to do. So that's when it began, looking for trainers. I was still in the middle of my P90X. Yes I felt great and my body was changing but not like the people on the infomercial. I wanted more but I needed a coach. I searched online and through the BB forums looking for someone. I even put in my pictures to start with Team Bombshell but I realized financially I couldn't do that option. Then I got really lucky and found someone 30 minutes away from me, someone who had been there done that with the pro card to back it up. And I reached out to her with a positive response. And so that is where I am now, in week 2 of my 30 week contest prep with the goal being November. So the journey begins.