Team Beachbody Guest

I was a contestant on Season 3 of The Biggest Loser and I would like to say my weight loss journey started the first day I started on the ranch but really it didn't. I worked out and ate right everyday for 6 weeks before I realized the DIRE IMPORTANCE of what I was doing and why. It was the day before my daughters 1st birthday and I was an emotional wreck because I knew the only way I wouldn't miss it was to be eliminated from the show, SO... I told my good friend Heather I wanted to go home!! And then she asked me the question that I think changed my life, do you REALLY want to go back?? When she said back she meant back home but when I thought of back I thought of how I was before I started losing weight and taking control of my life. I thought about how miserable I was and how ashamed I was of myself for letting food control every aspect of my life and I realized that I couldn't go "back" to that point. I couldn't go back to sitting and watching my kids little lives flash before my eyes while I sat in front of the TV, I just couldn't do it. So I decided right then to stay and FIGHT, fight for all those days at the park that I wanted to play with my kids but was too embarrassed to, fight for my self respect and finally fight for the person that I used to be BEFORE I let my weight control my life, and I did! I'm still fighting. I remember thinking all the time I wish I could lose weight I wish I was skinny (a word I no longer use) and it was the first thing I thought about when I woke up and the last thing I thought about when I went to sleep the problem was that was ALL I was doing, thinking and I finally stopped THINKING about losing weight and just DID IT!! I now wake up in the morning and instead of thinking gosh I wish I could lose weight I PUSH PLAY! I wake up and I do the work and trust me it is HARD WORK but I feel accomplished now, I feel PROUD of what I’ve done and not just losing the weight because honestly anyone can lose weight for a certain period of time, but I’m PROUD of the fact that I have kept this weight off for a year now!! Now THAT'S what I call an accomplishment!!