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Well, ok...this WAS me in 2014.  I was fit, I was active and around 180 pounds and 13% body fat.  This is what I currently look like...


2018...218 pounds and around 25% body fat the last time I checked.

Age is creeping up on me and the older I get, the more sedentary my life gets.  Between working from home and studying online, a lot of my time is spent sitting at a desk.  Top that with being a foreigner with few friends in my new country and it's needless to say that I don't get out much.

My husband is amazing.  He is funny, caring, annoying, exciting, full of a ton of ideas and LOVES to make sure that I am eating.  We bond over food...often!  Scotland has some amazing take away.  In the past year that we have been living together we have both fluctuated in weight and not in a good way.

In my career I am a Production Coordinator.  When I am not working from home I am traveling to different cities and working/living out of the hotels that the shows I help produce are in.  The days are long (12+ hours) and the meals are plentiful.  They are usually a buffet style and I am American.  We LOVE buffets!  It's hard to not overfill a plate when I don't know when I will have time to sit down to before the provided meal is taken away.  Then clients like to wine and dine...add more food.  After a long day I usually choose to sleep over waking up early to work out.  Long story short...EXCUSES!

Cut to now:  I am creating this blog along with a potential YouTube Channel to document my journey through fitness.  I plan to share my UPs, my DOWNs, and every moment in between.

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