Spanx um No Thanx

Spanx um no thanx

Came across this pic last night and gasped. I actually had spanx on. DISCLAIMER: this is not to offend. I think making under garments to make women feel amazing in their clothes is great. But this is some bull.

I’m looking to feel good without having to cover up, suck it in. To truly feel good in the skin I’m in clothes and in the nude.

On Feb 15, 2015 my hubby threw me a bday party with friends and family. I remember leading up to my birthday not having any motivation to do better.

I don’t know how ppl do it and pls this is not an opportunity to school me on spanx. What size I should’ve got ect. Save it! This thing kept on rolling down and I was super uncomfortable. This was for my birthday and I wanted to feel amazing on my birthday.

I didn’t. The spanx were a nuisance. It didn’t make me feel great. It reminded me how I messed up! How I let my weight get out of hand and how I let my excuses come between taking care of myself.

Thankfully this was my last straw... while I couldn’t get up the motivation to get back to feeling great in my skin for my birthday which is crazy to me cause what better occasion to do so but this just goes to show how demotivating negative self talk can be. How crippling laying in a bed of excuses can be.

There were so many times I wanted to workout/ go to the gym but just didn’t make the time to in fact I kept putting it off until a week before my birthday came around and I had to scurry to the mall and get something for my fitted dress so it wouldn’t show all the parts of me I was ashamed about. This wasn’t post baby weight Axis was 4.5. No excuse!

How many of us keep pushing our start dates back further and further? Where has that left you? Well it left me spending about $100 on an item that made me feel worst than better and Id wear only once! But was also enough motivation to get my life and do what I had to do to feel like me again! 

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In a post I made using some of these same images on March 3, 2016 one year into making real changes while on my journey I wrote...

Be the change you wish to see! It all starts with YOU! I struggle with this many times, I must admit I’M HUMAN. Sometimes people people fitness influencers, fitness motivators, trainers / coaches don’t struggle. I believe we all struggle differently.

I secretly struggled with weight and I didn't even realize it until I became a coach and started documenting my health and wellness journey. I would go on binge diets for an occasion or an event. Go running for summer time fine. I didn’t have the marathon mindset. It was always for the short term. Fitness has always been a love of mine BUT like with any love you can fall short. MY wellness journey has been more than weight loss. Its been life changing and life saving. It's a journey of me picking up all those broken pieces and putting them together again or often times feeling like the first time.