My Story...

So...I'm Missy. 

I am 24 years old and grew up in Ohio with an amazing family! I decided when I was 18 (after a breakup and college not working out for me) that I wanted to do something else with my life. So I said "What the heck..." and joined the United States Marine Corps. Ha...didn't know what I was getting myself into with that decision! 

Bootcamp Family Day before graduation

During my 4 years I met a lot of amazing people! I also got married and had a beautiful baby boy, Cooper...

...then found out my husband was cheating on me while away at school in Florida...that's where that chapter closes. 

While we were separated and going through the divorce process I met the MAN OF MY DREAMS, Aaron!! Seriously...he accepted me for me as well as treating Cooper as his own! Long story short once I was finally divorced, Aaron and I got married!  

Once we were married we decided we wanted to "not prevent but not try" to have a baby! A few months later we found out we were EXPECTING!! 9 months later...Peyton, our little princess made her arrival!

Now that you know my background and a little more about me than you did before, I'll tell you why I started this blog. 

This is where my new journey begins. I began gaining weight once I got out of the USMC, which is understandable. I went from working everyday and maintaining my weight to staying home with my little boy. That was a huge change...plus I started cooking and baking new and unhealthy foods! Well the pounds started piling on slowly at first and once I was pregnant with Peyton I ate EVERYTHING IN SIGHT! 

Once I gave birth my weight was still high but I was looking better day by day. Then my weight started to rise and my body was changing...in a bad way. I kept making up excuses and reasons why I couldn't work out yet and kept putting it off. 

TIME FOR THAT SHIT TO STOP!! 

Sunday I made a weight loss chart and "weighed in". Yesterday I started eating right with a strict meal plan and started using my new FitBit One. I will be exercising daily. I still need to take my "before" picture but I will get to that later today and post next time. I will be weighing myself every Sunday. I will blog about what I am doing, how I am doing and everything in-between. 

It's time for me to take control of my life again. I know I can do it! I've done it before! I want to be sexy again and feel sexy again! I want to love not only the person I see when I look in the mirror but the body that I see. I want to be able to run around the yard and the playground with my son instead of just sitting on the bench watching from the distance. It's time for a change!

I'm about to lose it!

Missy