I entered the $100,000 Transformation Challenge at Bodybuilding.com! For 12 weeks, I'm going to try to become my best self and be an active member of the BodySpace community. I'm eager to hit my goals by the end and hopefully inspire some people along the way!
Just thought I'd share my post :) This is my story of how I got into health and fitness and how it all started.
Hi there!
My name is Rachel Dillon, and I want to thank you in advance for checking out my BodySpace and BodyBlog! I really appreciate it 
Prologue: Except for the recreational soccer I did in elementary school, I was not an athletic child growing up nor did I participate in sports in high school - I was a musical theater kid. Never had weight issues, and with clothes on I seemed like your average healthy kid. I was never quite as skinny or fit as the other kids though..I didn't really let it bother me though. I just did what they all did, which was eat fairly poor and eat lots of sugar. While those kids had maybe two cookies at most, I was the one chomping away without a care - in other words, binging. It never affected my weight enough for me to do something about it, so I continued...but not for long.
My story officially starts in the summer of 2012. I was away at an competition with my Improv team for the weekend, and we won! As part of the celebration, the last day we were there a "dance" was held to celebrate. I remember trying to zip up the dress I wanted to wear that night, and wasn't able to. I was fustrated, upset, mad, sad, confused. But one thing was clear - I had gained some fat and needed to change.
So that summer, I started with Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred. I followed the program to the T, and changed my diet by "watching what I ate". 30 days went with by, and at the end of the program, I didn't look much different. I celebrated by making cookies.
Normally, I would've quit due to a lack of seeing any results and fustration. But I was determined, ready to do whatever it took to get my results I wanted. I looked to the internet for my solution. There I discovered the land of tumblr and "fitblr", people like Savannah and Muffin-Topless and Cassey Ho and Blogilates. I learned some great and not so great from that experience, but the most important thing I learned was the stress of weights and how they change your body. It was aroung this time that I learned that my next door neighbor was a personal trainer, and that for $50 a month she would train me! I thought FINALLY I would get my body.
She gave me home based circuit like workouts to do and an elliptical workout to do at the gym. A month later I hadn't seen much of change, so she added in running, something I still dread to this day. I hate running! But she told me that was the only way I was going to slim down, so for three months I endured that hellacious torture. I did loose a little bit, but not early what I thought I should've for three months. (During this entire time I wasn't really watching my diet) At this time I came across Bodybuilding.com and read over and over about lifting heavy and the great things that it did for your body. So I begged my trainer to give me a weight lifting program, and even though she was hesitant to, she did. I though FINALLY I would get my body.
January 2013 was when I first entered the weight room and my love affair with weights began. My trainer gave me ten exercises to perform three days a week, and I came to love lifting heavy. It was around this time I started tracking my calories and came to realize that my sugar addiction was a big reason as to why I probably not reaching my goals. For my new year's resolution, me and three of my friends decided to go without sugar or white flour for six months. I thought FINALLY I would get my body.
I could go on and on but we'll flash forward to now. Why aren't I were I want to be despite all this time? Well, I've scaled it down to three things
1) Binging/Restricting certain foods
After not having sugar for 6 months, the amount of sugar I had post-resolution should have made me diabetic. It sickens me to think of it, and actually led me to weighing my highest ever (156 pounds) I now know that for me, moderation is the KEY. I will never be able to completely cut out sugar, so I must learn to moderate it and find substitutes.
2) Lack of consistency with my diet
I would follow a certain calorie amount for one to two weeks VERY loosely and then think that I was eating too much, so I'd cut my calories. Then binge. Then pick a new calorie amount. Rinse and repeat.
3) Patience
I wanted my results over a year ago. If I weren't so stickin determined, I would've quit ages ago. But I've learned that you can't follow a program for two weeks, determine it doesn't work, and then try something else. Be patient. Give it time. Change is right around the corner.
So where am I now? Still weightlifting, and far more consistant, honest and balanched with my diet. My motto for 2014 is THIS IS IT. This is the year that I'm going to accomplish my goals, get to were I want to be, make things happen. I'm smarter, stronger, and more dedicated than ever.
I'm all in. Are you?
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