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My Story: How Fitness Changed My Life (My Transformation Losing More Than 35 Pounds)
Apr 25, 2024
I explain how I used fitness and a healthy lifestyle to lose 35 pounds after struggling with my weight for years. Going one yoyo diet to another resulted in short-term success all to gain it back again and feel even more defeated. It wasn't until I got a healthy mindset about food and exercise that I had real success.
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Hi everyone, it's Anna
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Welcome to my channel where I talk about all things, fitness and nutrition and meal
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prepping and all that good stuff that goes along with it. So today I'm going to be talking about how I use fitness to change my life
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I didn't mean to jump into fitness to change my life, it just did
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My life is completely different and in a good way. So about two years ago I tried out my first Orange Theory class and there's other videos
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in my channel that explain exactly what orange theory is. So if you don't know, go check those out
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because I explain it in great detail and I'll explain it a little bit here
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but this is basically how just my whole fitness journey changed my life
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So I tried that out and it's like a hit style workout
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and I became an avid orange theory goer. Like I am a cult member when it comes to Orange Theory
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I have a cult member when it comes to Orange Theory. I have all the gear, I do all their challenges
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Like I enjoy it, I literally enjoy it. It's become something that I look forward to every single day
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When I walk in those doors the sales assistants know my name and so do the coaches and we know each other more personally Like I know you know about their kids and they know my job and my boyfriend and all that
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So it's really been a huge part of my life, and I, you know, did my whole nutrition overhaul with it
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Like, I completely changed my eating, and I do a lot of meal prepping videos and rest of
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on this channel as well so go check them out fitness and health didn't just change me
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physically but it also changed me mentally I'm in such a better place than I was
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before because not only do you because of the way you are physically and you don't
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like the way you are and where you're at that makes you really down but just like
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you know working out gives you so much more confidence it gives you confidence
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that you can, you have the ability to get stronger. You have the ability to get faster
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You have the ability to get more endurance. All those things, you have the capability to do
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And so when you do make gains and get better at those types of things it is so such a good feeling When you think you just not doing enough but you really are Like all along you making progress and making steps
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to getting stronger, faster, and all those things. So just that journey alone is just so, so
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satisfying. And what helped me along the way as well is just, I am just learning all along. I'm an
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amateur but people telling me that I am an inspiration to them was like wow I'm an inspiration
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like I'm just learning like I'm I'm just on my journey but to other people you can be such an
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inspiration if you are you know trying to make a positive change in your life other people can
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see that and and they feed off of it so that is such a good feeling mentally is just helped me
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so much I deal with a lot of anxiety anxiety and stress and orange theory and fitness and just nutrition is like my total stress
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reliever therapy session. I think we call it orange therapy instead of orange theory basically
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because for that one hour you don think about anything else but working out and like what you need to do to like make it through this workout and your body like it like painful i mean in a good way when you working out you know it hurts but like you do
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that to get um something out of it so all you could focus on is just the workout the music the trainer
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what they're saying what you can do in that moment you're not thinking about all the other
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outside things in your life like you're um you're really really really really really
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Your job, all the extra stress that you have on going on, maybe you know you've lost somebody or you're an abusive relationship or something like that
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That is that one place that's your constant and that's what it was for me
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Through all these different times I've had all these different transitions It's been a constant thing that's been there for me. It's never changed. It's always been there
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I've always gone at the same time. It's a routine and routine is such an important thing for
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people especially who deal with anxiety and stress but anybody to just have that stability
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is amazing it's a game changer so that is kind of my journey how I started using
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orange theory fitness and nutrition to transform my life
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