If I can do it, so can you!! ( My own personal struggle)

Its only fair to start off this blog by telling you a little bit about my own struggle with weight.It hasn’t been long since I started this craze, but once I did, I fell in love. I’m 19 years old and started last year when I turned 18. I used to be a chubby child, with a careless mindset.I would eat healthy yet unhealthy and never had a great body. I used to be a dancer but my weight always kept me from moving foward with that passion.Im 4'11 so being 125 and that height really was tough. I decided that once I turned 18, I would change myself and become more physically active and fit. I had a gym membership but never used it. Once I started my process of change, I was going everyday . Dreading each and every day for 3 months, made me realize that there had to be something fun yet helpful and motivational at the gym to push myself to exercise.I hated those elipticals and treadmills.It would get overly boring and i would just give up. Inconsequentially I would see people spin their life away at the Spinning (cycling) class and decided to give it a try. As crazy as it looked I signed up for it the next day. Never had ridden such bikes, I climbed on and had the instructor give me a hand with the setting of the bike. Once class was over, I was exhausted and realized I had done a workout that I actually enjoyed. I had fallen in love with the class. Every day I would anticipate the class, usually with different instructors. This was last year summer 2008. Now we are in 2009 and it’s been over a year since I started spinning. I have lost 15 lbs and gained 7 lbs of muscle. Burning off 10% body fat, all thanks to spinning. Since then I still go to spinning, but not every day. Once you hit a plateau it’s impossible to lose any more doing the same workout every day. I spin 4 times a week with the same instructor (she’s like a cheetah on the bike). I do the class to maintain my weight and sweat as much as possible. I’ve reached my plateau, so I interchange it with running on the days I don’t spin. I also do strenght training before the class. But spinning has become my passion. An addiction I would say. A fantastic and healthy addiction. I now cannot miss a day at the gym. I live it, breathe it. Its something that gets me through my day. This goes to show that anything is possible and that motivation and perseverance it all it takes to take one step to your own goals and actually reaching it.

"Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."