About

“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.”

Roy T Bennett, The Light in the Heart

I was once the girl who disliked anything to do with working out.

I was once the girl who forced herself to workout because others thought her size was not acceptable.

I was once the girl who admired transformation photos of random people and wish I could have done it myself…

I was also the girl who got sick and tired of always being sick and tired of being unhappy with the person who looked back at me in the mirror.

The change came when I came across an annual transformation challenge sponsored by the huge online supplement store, Bodybuilding.com. They were offering a prize money for both male and female winner of USD$100,000.00 each. The male an female with the best transformation would win the grand prize money. Persons were required to submit before photos on their bodybuilding,com space. The photos were a wake up call for me, because although I knew I was not in the best shape of my life, I never anticipated it was to that magnitude. That is the pic I still use today to show persons how far I have come along….and quite frankly I am happy I took that photo. Although I did not win that prize money or any consolation prize, what I left with was more valuable than anything. I grew to love lifting and anything related to bodybuilding and fitness. It helped propel me in my efforts to change the unhealthy and unsustainable sedentary lifestyle I seemed so comfortable in.

One of the major challenges that I encountered on my journey was that there is a plethora of information on fitness that someone who wants to make that change in their life may find it intimidating and confusing. You hear of Keto Diet, then you hear of intermittent fasting, then you hear of cardio cardio …then you hear of resistance training and the fear of looking like a man …. then your friend tells you if you lift while you still have body fat, your fat will turn to muscle and you will be bulky….how does one figure out what will work for them??? During my journey I also found out that personal training is so overrated and may cost you an arm and leg during the time who decide to experiment with it and then discovering it is not all what it is cut out to be. With resources like bodybuilding.com with workouts already designed and a database of how these exercises are to be performed,.

It is my hope that through the sharing of my journey, (between balancing being a mother, partner, work and working out) and what has worked for me and what I continue to do to reach my goals , it can help others like me who are at the same point I was years ago..

I continue to evolve….

I am Lauren, Mother of One Girl…and this is my FitJourney…..