I knew that since I wanted it all I had to give it my all! At this time I worked for the Houston School Dist. and my hours were like a roller coaster ride. This added to my journey, making it almost a nightmare, that’s a whole other story line though, I’ll get into that part later. With my new mindset now, I was quickly finding all the small mindedness of the people around me that I hadn’t seen or noticed before because I was just like them, It was.
I took some time off after P90X and went to my first ever Beachbody Summit, this is where I fell in love with Beachbody, to the extreme! At first, my thoughts were that I actually just need to find a way get the money to come in so I can quit my job at HISD, then, I could just concentrate on my Beachbody life and helping others. I found there were a lot of self-help books to read and Videos to watch, so I don’t have time to work a 9 to 5, I need to get at it. Well, when I got back I took more time to think and reflect upon my goals. First, I became P90X Certified and then started some fit clubs. Unfortunately, my job was just not allowing time for all that really, making it hard to do. Yep, I had an excuse for everything at that time in my life. My knees did play a huge part in all this as they just kept getting worse. My lifestyle up to now had really messed them up bad. I knew something would need to be done and soon. I pushed forward anyway with working out and dealing with the stress of HISD. I wanted more believe it or not and so I became Certified in Insanity as well by Melissa McCallister, her and I are good friends as well as fellow Beachbody coaches. When I finished that, I just knew that with having two Certifications, I’m on my way. Yeah, that’s what I told myself anyway.
I was now down to 238 pounds and half way through my next workout period. I got this far by becoming the Modify King of workouts! All the time I was working out I kept wishing there was a way to at least take care of my right knee since that was the worst at this point. Well, a twist of fate happened and I had a car accident, I blew out my right knee completely now. The Doctor said a replacement was going to be needed for sure. Since I was in a company truck and on the clock during work when this happened, Workman’s Comp stepped in. They told the doctor wait a minute, how about just repair the tendons first before we just jump into a full replacement cost. My doctor wasn’t very happy knowing it wasn’t going to help much but did as they requested. It made things better, for about a month, but it was still an effort to do things. So next, they said to try Cortisone shots for the joint. The Doctor did that too, shaking his head the whole time. We both knew replacement was coming. In their attempt to keep coast down, they actually made the process cost more because since nothing was working, reconstruction was finally done. I decided to use beachbody as part of my therapy, so I pushed play and did the best I could. I was back up and back to work in 4 weeks. The Doctor was very pleased at my progress but concerned about the weight coming back on. During the time of all the side steps that workman’s comp wanted, making workouts not that easy to do at all, it caused my weight to go back up to 275 pounds and it scared me that I had put back on 37 pounds. P90X was a little extreme with my knee the way it was so the work out I chose was, Les Mills Pump. There was no high impact with this and only a lot of repletion, it looked pretty good.
I stuck to the workout without only a few modifications. Though I only lost about 10 pounds, I did look better and felt stronger. Since I was starting to feel pretty good now, I went on a Beachbody Cruise for 7 days on the Ocean and saw a few awesome ports. I’ll talk about how that experience went in the next blog. Meanwhile, let me know your thoughts so far on what I’ve been talking about.
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