2 Years 20 Kilos: How I Changed My Life

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by Nazli Mahmoud




How I changed My life

As a single or married person you can almost do anything with your life with or without partner, but then when you become a parent or most specific a Mother, you are no longer what you were before, at least for the first few years, from the changes you find in your body and your life style, you are a new person.  Finding a new “You” and accepting all these changes for some is easy for some other is not.

Having two kids for me who had always been an active person was overwhelming, and the most difficult part of it seeing myself as an overweight person, always tired and feeling down most of the time.

After the second delivery I decided to go back to the gym and start seriously put my self back in track, I started with group classes 2, 3 times a week but then I decided to go for a personal trainer and let somebody who knows the job help me. I was not in a rush to lose the weight down so doing exercise started to put me in mood, I could do an hour workout and continue my housework and taking care of the kids, month after month I could see myself losing more weight which was giving me more confidence to go around. The great thing about having a PT was to help me keep the routine and encouraging me not to give up, and to be honest sometimes working out alone in the gym is boring!

2 Years, 20 Kilos

Adding to that I started doing spinning and Yoga, which was balancing my workout routine.  On the nutritional side, I cut on junk food and sodas, eating healthier, but I never dieted. It took me two years to lose 20 Kg and reach my pre-pregnancy weight, the shape that I was proud of myself and became a happier mom again.

Bootcamps

I started doing bootcamp from last year, at the beginning just to try the different mood from indoor exercises and also much tougher in nature. I can say it’s very addictive! After moving this year to Dubai, I got to know Fitness O2, and joined them first with booty bootcamp, which was right for me at the time to get use to the humidity and hot summer in Dubai! Now I am enjoying the Renegade, which is also great. The trainers are energetic, giving you motivation not to quit, and then there are lots of positive energies around, and everybody is doing his/her best to challenge and get fitter. By the end of the session I feel so great and charged that I can run around Safa park one more lap!

I’ve reached to the point that I cannot live without my daily work out. No matter if you are slim or fat exercise should be part of your life, not just for the time being but for a long healthy and happy life.

Picture via LocalFitness.com.au licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

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