A Day In The Life Of Mums Weight Loss program
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Mums Weight Loss Program came into being because of a desire to bring my journey with Club FYM and being a Fit Yummy Mummy to other moms of all ages and backgrounds, so that they too could experience the wonderful results that other moms are getting.
As a mum of two teenage boys, I found myself pushed to the back of the queue when it came to giving myself any attention. Let’s face it, there is always something else clamouring for our attention, whether it is the washing needing hanging on the line, grocery shopping in our lunch hour, delivery and collection of said children to football/ballet/music/tennis lessons or practice or putting the evening meal on the table.
A year ago I decided that enough was enough. I had DONE with all the aches and pains, looking and feeling like a granny of 80 at 47. There simply had to be something out there that I could do without wheezing like an asthmatic ant with a heavy load of shopping; giving up after a couple of weeks into the gym membership; feeling like death warmed up from the terrible burning in my muscles when I did exercise and that denial that the food I was eating was not doing me any good.
Who was going to look after me if I got sick?
A year ago I found Fit Yummy Mummy and eagerly bought the program and signed up for Club FYM. Holly’s warning at the head of the page got me thinking that here at last was someone who understood what I was going through, ” …before you start doing long, mind-numbing cario workouts… ” and “Discover the Secret Method Busy Moms are Using to Burn the Lingering “Baby Fat” and Get Their Body Back with Fun, Fast, Workouts You Can Do Right at Home”. Whilst I didn’t put myself in the “baby fat” catagory, I was still a mom wasn’t I?
I’ll be honest here - I DID NOT appreciate what I held in my hands! A community of such wonderful women who support, encourage, help, and most importantly befriend with an enlightened leader in Holly Rigsby. It took me until September of last year to really get to grips with both the program and to fully understand what a gift it was to be a part of Club FYM.
Life got in the way. In the words of Nike I did not “just do it”. I didn’t establish a routine because I don’t think I had really bought into a strong enough why. Excuses after excuses flooded my brain - it was after all only a few pounds, I didn’t want to go through the burn of exercise and I definitely didn’t want to change my eating habits. I love food, I am after all a Cordon Bleu cook and for my age I don’t look that bad, do I?
After a summer of really hitting rock bottom with my body (for me) looking worse than ever - little (?, more like medium sized) pads of fat sitting over my elbows, the “muffin top” taking over the jeans and my thighs turning into thighs that resembled Olympic wight lifters, my chest growing to something that resembled my Victorian great granny’s ample bosom, I clearly had to take myself in hand and do something about myself. After all it wasn’t going to get any better doing what I was doing up until now - which was practically nothing other than think about it.
I turned back to Club FYM and began logging on each day, reading other people’s blogs and reading the wealth of help and advice that Holly dispenses with love and affection.
On October 14 I simply made up my mind to start the workouts and blog about it. Here is my first blog on the day I made that decision. I gave myself a free 30 day trial!
As you can see from that blog post, I still hadn’t admitted to myself how bad I looked because I did not take any before photos, shoving down those negative emotions because I couldn’t face showing me with the world. I now wished I had because I have come to understand that in the photos you can see just how far you come in such a short time.
Tomorrow I will share with you my results and my journey up to today, but I’ll leave you with a never before published photo of me before I started on my Fit Yummy Mummy journey.
PS. Sorry for the lack of photo - for some reason I could not get it to load, so I will try again tomorrow with some other photos!
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