From this to that...

If I'm totally honest I would tell you that I was already overweight when I got pregnant for the second time. So when I gained sixty pounds (60 pounds!) while I was pregnant, the end result was not one I was comfortable with. I tried going to the gym, but never stuck with it enough. My schedule with late night feedings and working full time made it hard to prioritize the gym. This is an issue I am still working on to this day. My diet, however, was something I could change right away. So I did. Almost cold turkey, too. I decided one day to start juicing and to try to eat as much raw, vegan food as possible. No bread, no sugar and no dairy was my new mantra. I started following people like FullyRawKristina and TheRawBoy on Instagram and finally watched Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead on Netflix. I was hooked, this was the life for me. I juiced and juiced and chopped and ate and lost 30 pounds in 4 months. That's without working out on any sort of regular schedule at all. So imagine IF I actually worked out! I still have weight to lose and I'm still working on it. Every day. Its a battle. Sometimes I LOVE looking in the mirror at what I now look like. Sometimes I hate that I still have so far to go and verbally berate the image I see before me, in my mind. We all do that, I think. I don't like it, though, and I want to stop. So I have decided today I am just going to be kind to myself. To be positive and supportive and constantly working towards and looking forward to the future by remaining grounded in the awesomeness of the present. After all, I have at least gone from this....to that...

And I'm pretty happy about that. :) This isn't even a really recent transformation pic, its just the most recent I have. Onward and upward...