Do we have a baby yet?!?! 🩷🩷🩷

3 weeks ago I was just maintaining. I’d met my goal weight so really didn’t have a “need to work harder’ mindset. Now my mindset has totally shifted. I want to be stronger and feel more energized! Instead of working out for 30min as a way to close my watch rings, I’m doing 30 min of strength and 30 min of cardio. I have to get up earlier but that hasn’t proven nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. Instead of just eating whatever to get to my calories, I’ve focused on protein and met or exceeded my goal everyday. I’ve also counted fruits and veggies and realized I was way under what I thought I was eating. Sometimes 0 😳. Now I’m getting 3-7 different ones. Water was always hard but now with focus I’m meeting my minimums. I truly feel stronger and better than I have in a long time! Loving not doing more of the same!!

This year my why is ME!! As I start my 56th trip around the sun, I’m choosing to honor the me of today, of 2026. I’m not the lost, confused, lost-my-career woman I was at 53. I’m not the fluffy farm girl I was at 51. I’m not the depressed/suicidal shell of a human I was at 48. Or any of the things/persons I was at [enter age/year here]. So who am I? I’m a study in progress. I’m studying my input & my output. I’m a study in over coming struggles, building confidence, gaining strength, mastering my mindset. I’m a study in overcoming fear and having all the adventures I can create. I’m a study in having FUN while still GSD. I’m a study in what I CAN do when I put my mind to it and stay the course. Some of those studies come with hard learned lessons and some just require I remain true to the person I want to be. My waist isn’t as small as I want it to be, my legs, while strong AF, aren’t as toned as I’d hoped by now. BUT you know what…?! I have come a long way and I’m not stopping! Who’s joining me on the biggest adventure yet?!