About Me

So, what is this all about anyway? 
The Wellness Revolution is my effort to get myself healthy again--physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I believe that physical health is really only part of the key to being healthy. It's got to be driven by the other aspects in order to be effective and lasting.

I used to be healthy. And then life took over, and my wellness fell by the wayside. I can pretty much pinpoint this to having my first child. Becoming a mother was such a huge change in my life, and it was a big challenge. I didn't quite know how to deal with all the new responsibilities and struggles of being a mother, yet leave room for taking care of myself. And to be honest, I still don't (even after Baby #2). But it's time to figure it out.

I gained a lot of weight and developed a lot of unhealthy habits during my pregnancy with Baby #2. Sometimes I feel like when I had kids, my body was not my own anymore. It's time to regain control and start developing those healthy habits again.


Third time's the charm!
This is not my first time trying to get in shape and get healthy. I've been at it twice before.

The first time I lost about 50 lbs. I felt great! I learned how to eat healthy, how to exercise...I even ran a marathon.

Weight Loss Attempt #1

Then I got pregnant with my first child and gained most of it back. I did ok at exercising throughout the pregnancy, but once my little girl was born, it was SO HARD to get back on track.

Weight Loss Attempt #2

But I did ok, lost most of the baby weight and even completed a 100-mile bike race and got back up to running a 10K distance. But I never got back to where I wanted to be before I got pregnant again.

But throughout pregnancy #2, I felt so miserable throughout the entire 9 months that I was not able to exercise much and was too tired, sick and lazy to cook very well.

Which brings me to now. The third go-around of this whole weight loss thing. Only this time, I want to focus more on just being healthy. Yes, I want to lose weight, but the more important thing is to become healthy again. Both physically and mentally. No more laziness. I'm not quite sure exactly how I'm going to do it, but I NEED to, which is why I started this blog. So, here's for hoping the third time's the charm.

Weight-loss attempt #3...a work in progress!