the truth about fitness

I have a huge passion for health and fitness. Throughout the years I have spent working out and going to the gym, I have also realized that fitness can be extremely misleading.

I'm serious. I used to look at "fit" and shredded people and equate them as the ultimate picture of health.

Truth:
A girl can have 8 percent body fat and NOT be healthy. A girl can have a shredded six pack and NOT be healthy. A girl could go to the gym twice a day for hours at a time, 365 days a year and STILL not be healthy. A lot goes on behind the scenes that we don't know about and sometimes it can be causing more damage than good.

So you can see why I say that fitness is completely misleading and overrated. Let's stop striving to look like that Instagram model and instead turn our focus on being HAPPY + HEALTHY. If you want to truly love the skin that you are in, you CANNOT sacrifice your physical and mental health. Your fitness journey will be SO much easier and even more rewarding if you protect your mental health and love the skin you are in.

I am a huge advocate for prioritizing your mental health over your fitness goals because I've been there. I know what it feels like to overanalyze every single thing you eat and run miles and miles with the intention of wanting to look a specific way. But you know what? This is the biggest lesson that I had to learn and I hope you can too: You can love yourself RIGHT where you are. I promise, if you just flip your mindset and stop thinking where you are right now is not good enough and realize where you are right now is PERFECT and just a chance to keep on improving, your mind and your body will respond positively.

Sometime's our internal thoughts can be our own worst enemy and can negatively impact our own opinion about ourself. What if... instead of your mind being a place filled with negativity, you replace those old thoughts with new positive ones?

Positive thoughts like...

-confidence
-self love
-contentment
-passion
-gratitude

I challenge you to start flipping your negative thoughts into positive ones. I know it can be strange at first, but I promise speaking kindly to yourself will ALWAYS be worth it. Your fitness/health is a life long journey.

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