Guest Blog by: Christine Demeo
My friend Robin had been going to bootcamp, our kids had been going to school together since kindergarten. That’s how it began.
I would see her come in and get the girls from PLACE, and be rushing out because she had to get to 5:30 bootcamp. I had to find out about this bootcamp thing, and this guy Derek that came into the bank where she worked.
November of 2013, after about 2 months of contemplating I went and watched and remember looking around at the varsity group and saying “Wow, I want to look like that! I want to do what they do! But how am I going to keep up”?
I started, I was scared!!! My heart would race everyday on the way there, but I was hooked!
It would race because I was nervous and thought “I’m 42, I’m too old and too tired to be starting this!” I went the whole month and if I wasn’t there, I was getting a text from Derek asking me to explain why missed a workout!
Now I had this Derek guy holding me accountable for me?? WEIRD!
Well in my own mind I was always the heavy girl, the base in cheerleading, the shortstop in softball because I had the strong arm, the shot put girl in track, anything that required the BIG GIRL to do, that was me.
I was never the thin girl in a swim suit that felt comfortable with her body!
My senior year I was the homecoming queen, and even then some very nice people even wrote in the stadium bathroom wall, “Everyone run, the Homecoming queen weighs a ton”!
I can laugh now, but then I was mortified.
Thanks by the way for helping me become who I am today for that comment.
So this bootcamp thing…Yes it has changed me.
I have learned how to eat, how to work out, and mostly have learned that I can love me and transform that big girl into anything I’m willing to put the work into to get there.
I competed this past weekend, yep me in a bikini on stage in front of an audience of people…a BIG audience of people in bright lights!
Note to self, I’m still the big girl getting smaller everyday.
My body fat started at 30%, now 18% and I dropped 16lbs on the scale and way more fat!
I don’t plan to stop here. I don’t want too.
Just do this, don’t talk about it, don’t contemplate, just do it.
Christine
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