Breakfast! Omelette with ham, cheese, zucchini, and roasted peppers
My favorite thing in the winter.
I discovered some more before pictures of me, when I was close to my heaviest. It’s really amazing to see how far I’ve come.
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Breakfast!
Tried something new for breakfast this morning! Two eggs, roasted red peppers, asparagus and tomato all fried up together.
It was yummy ;)
I’ve been weight training since ‘09. Nothing serious, I lifted maybe 40lbs max. I remember STRUGGLING to lift that and ending up with back pain. Not cool. I wasn’t really making all that much progress, but I did lift once a week from the summer of ‘09 to May of 2011, when I started watching my portions. I kept lifting as my weight dropped.
A year ago—September 2011—I said to myself: “what would happen if I started challenging myself?”
So I started adding weight to the end of my bar in the class. Within a few weeks I was lifting heavier than anyone else taking the class. Within a few months I was lifting twice as much (or more) as most people. After those few months I had enough courage to add another lifting day outside the confines of the class and began lifting even heavier on those days. Soon my weight training class was no longer the day I lifted the heaviest.
A year ago I made one of the best decisions of my life, and because of lifting heavy:
And now, the most important ones:
Lifting heavy has changed my life, and I hope that I can inspire at least one woman to look past the wrong information she’s been fed and pick up a set of heavy weights. As it is I’ve managed to get other women at my gym picking up slightly heavier weights…now to get them to lift even heavier!
Not only has lifting shaped my body—it’s shaped my mind too. I feel strong and confident, and that’s an awesome way to live.
From the time we’re little women are taught to be delicate, kind, etc. Men have to open jars for us and lift the heavy stuff because they’re GUYS and can do that and women are the weaker sex and can’t.
I’m here to tell you to throw that notion out the window. We can be STRONG and awesome if we want to…(read more)
I’m going to be starting a series of posts here on my blog. If it’s not apparent from the title, the series will be about why women should lift weights—heavy weights in particular. Too often we’re scared off or discouraged from lifting heavy weights because we’re afraid we’ll bulk up.
Experienced female lifters know that this isn’t the case, and I’m going to use this series to chronicle how lifting heavy has really helped me transform my body… (read more)
ONE AWESOME THING ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT?
Cool T-shirt collection becomes comfy night shirt collection.
I have like 2350980 graphic tees in 2XL, since I can wear XS and S now, they are now night shirts. Tweety here is just one…I’ve got Pokemon, Sonic and Mario night shirts…yay!
