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Mine started as community-driven. His was history, or lack of transparency, driven. But it was a choice we didn't take lightly or easily. In fact, I've been in therapy for months about how to process it because I went through a serious bout of depression and anxiety over it. Then covid hit. Covid made it easy to disappear from our ward. My ward didn't care about me anyway, I'm not kidding when I say that. I had zero actual friends. And not from a lack of trying. I threw one game party for the ladies in my ward years ago and one person didn't get invited and a whole other crap happened because of it and I became ostracized. FOR YEARS. I sat alone in the back. And roamed the halls because I never felt wanted or welcome in any of the classes. I have been only going because of my kids. In fact some women thought we moved and didn't even bother to ask or check. So covid made it real easy for me to step back. For my husband, thanks to new podcasts, he learned more about the missing history we were never taught about growing up. Which made him question why they never told us. We both look for reasons to look past, and ignore but ultimately we couldn't follow something that was dishonest with us and our money. (see that was my second thing I had a hard time with.) The tithing money. We have been living paycheck to paycheck, not even we rely on our credit card because we can't afford anything because we obediently gave 10% of our gross income to the church, only to find out in November 2019, the church had amassed over $100BILLION in money, not including how much they own in land and other investments. I started looking at the church as a corporation, a company, and not a religious entity. I get it, everything costs money, but here we were scraping by while the church was sitting on a huge nest egg, for what!?! They barely donate to charity, they don't really help the people locally who need it. They fired all the cleaning people and make the members do the cleaning of all the buildings and temples. I thought they had the members clean because the church didn't have enough to cover it. No, just another way to save money. Oh and leadership gets paid. Even though it's been stated in conference talks that there are no paid clergy. Well, the bishops give a ton of time and don't receive income but the higher ups have multiple perks, but not the higher up women in the church.
Anyways, this has been brewing and stewing for awhile with me. It is our choice to leave the mormon faith and one that is with a heavy heart. We've finally told our families and as you can imagine it didn't go well for either side. But this is for us. We can't follow blindly anymore. I look forward to our future that we make. That our children make. And my children, when they are adults they are welcome to choose to join the Mormon faith or not. But we won't be pressuring them to get baptized when they turn 8. We want them to make an informed choice. This post is not intended to hurt or damage any person's personal belief. This is just a way for me to move on, and to give transparency,
unlike the church.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me at: connectthdotsginger@gmail.com
February 12, I was crushing my workout, like really crushing it! The final minute I decided to push myself and record it then POP! I did something to my calf. Later found out, yes if you hear an audible POP you need to go to the emergence room RIGHT AWAY! And it was determined that I tore my calf muscle. BAD. Met with an orthopedic surgeon, NO SURGERY NEEDED, thank goodness and got in right away with a Physical Therapist to help my body recover and heal. With orders to only do upper body and core workouts.
Injuries happen. Even to Athletes, which is what the Orthopedic surgeon called me. And it sucks when they happen. There was no indication that something bad was about to happen. No pain leading up to it. no slow down. If anything I literally pushed my body to it's breaking point!
How do you stay committed to your journey when you're injured and can't workout like you used to?
1. Do what you can. I am on crutches and getting around sucks. But I make it downstairs and alternate doing upper body focused workouts and core focused workouts 5 days a week. A little movement is better than none.
2. Focus on what you can focus on. Following your docs orders. Your Physical Therapist exercises and EATING RIGHT!
3. Focus on your nutrition. It's so easy to slip back into old habits but you have to remember, you can still lose weight without exercise. And it's not even about losing weight, healthy eating promotes healing. The better you eat the more good stuff your body has to pull from to help it heal faster and more efficient. Just imagine if a wall broke in your house, and the contractor used broken or termite riddled wood to rebuild it. That's what processed foods is. It lacks the nutrients that your body actually need. While it might taste good at the moment and help drown away your sorrows or it even says it's "healthier", don't be deceived. What your body needs is whole foods like fruits and veggies, healthy fats, and lean protein, lots of water and rest.
4. Don't mentally beat yourself up. Alright it's going to happen the first few days but after that, STOP IT! Do what you can with your workouts, it's as good as it's going to get and be proud that you are doing it.
5. SLOW DOWN AND REST! Your body needs lots of rest right now. So if you can, slow down. Rest when you can. And get a good amount of sleep at night. Healing happens when you sleep!
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I feel official! You all know I've been running this blog for A LONG TIME, during that time I've created a second brand doing my health and fitness coaching as an independent Beachbody Coach. Well, the past 6 months or so I've felt it in my bones, My team is going to make amazing strides and help more people than we ever have.
I've been busy behind the scenes developing our team portal for the past month and a half to help me team grow their teams easily, successfully and authentically. Like seriously, I run a different kind of team of sharing not selling!
I've finally designed a team logo so that when we do get to meet in person, we'll stand out in a crowd.
I've cracked the code to having a fun and ON FIRE group that is engaging, supportive and just empowering.
What we do is focus on our journey, support each other in our groups and share about it to our friends. All the ups and downs! That's it! That's the secret! So if you are looking to get in the best shape of your life, learning not just a quick fix but actually learning to love moving your body daily, learning to love eating veggies and be surrounded by women who lift you up and want only the best for their life, I can help you with that, and teach you how you can help others along the way! Team Connect The Dots Fitness is READY TO GROW, STARTING WITH YOU!
Drop me an email and let me know you are ready to join us! That you are ready to do this for you and for the women that you were meant to help, who is praying for you to be in her life to help her work towards her best self! Let me know that you are tired of trying all the fad diets, and only want to do what works and actually enjoy it (cause spoiler, you can still eat amazing food and chocolate and still make progress towards your goals!). That you are ready to live GUILT FREE and enjoy the life you have and love yourself as you are now! That you are ready to push play on the workouts that deliver results because you are ready to work hard for what you want! That you are ready to provide more of a financial cushion for your family to be able to do the things you want easier, because you get paid to get healthy!
*can not already be actively working with another Team Beachbody coach. Enrollment currently only available in US, Canada, UK and France. If you live outside of these regions, but still interested, send me an email and I'll add you to my international list and contact you when Beachbody becomes available in your area!
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One of the things I love is the fact that 2 of the main daily activities I do with my business actually pertain directly to me and my own journey. 1. Workout daily and follow the nutrition programs. 2. Read or listen to mindset enhancing books or podcasts. If you are following me on Instagram or Facebook, you see me pushing play on my workouts, almost every day on my workouts but you don't really see me reading or listening but I do them almost daily.
To kick off the new year and me continuing to educate myself on all things nutrition, it's really my struggle spot, I'm am currently reading Eat Smarter by Shawn Stevenson. If you don't know who he is, he is the author of my other favorite book I binge listened to as I drove 8 hours to our annual coach's conference back in 2019 Sleep Smarter. He also has the podcast The Model Health Show, which I listen to every week!
He sites actual medical references and has done countless hours of research and studying to be able to provide the most accurate and up to date info for anyone with or without a medical, health professional or nutritional background. Basically he's out to educate anyone and everyone willing to listen.
In Eat Smarter, nutritionist, bestselling author, and #1-ranked podcast host Shawn Stevenson breaks down the science of food with a 30-day program to help you lose weight, reboot your metabolism and hormones, and improve your brain function. Most importantly, he explains how changing what you eat can transform your life by affecting your ability to make money, sleep better, maintain relationships, and be happier. Eat Smarter will empower you and make you feel inspired about your food choices, not just because of the impact they have on your weight, but because the right foods can help make you the best version of yourself.
2021 is the year to take back control on the one thing you can control. And for me that's learning how to take control of my nutrition, sugar addiction and just learn how to want to eat all the veggies and really and honestly love it. I'm so close to making this transition. I'm on the turning point. So for now, I personally am educating myself over and over again. Digging into training in our continuing education programs in our online fitness library and with outside resources making me mentally stronger just as I'm working daily to make myself physically stronger.
Hey, looking to join my current group and get access to over 1000 different workouts, or join me RIGTH NOW on the same program I'm doing? You can send me an email to connectthedotsginger@gmail.com or DIVE right in and get the recommended kit that not only gets you 1 year access to our online fitness library but also try out the exact same products I use daily at 50% off for your first month! Just CLICK HERE to order and I'll send you an email with how to get plugged into our group and my support! Hope to see you soon!
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It's here, finally 2020 is GONE and we are in the new year. But...life is still going the same. We are all still dealing with Covid. Many of us are dealing with online school with our kids (ugh!) The only things that have changed is we added a 1 at the end of the year, and our excitement for a fresh start with our lives.
With everything going on around us, it's time to take back control in the 1 thing we can literally control, our health. Our wellness. Our own fate. I read a post from someone saying, "I'm tired of being fat!" it went on to more but the first comment on there was, "DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN!" Literally doing something about our health and wellness is all in our hands (unless you have medical reason as to why,) but I'm here telling you, as a plus size fit ginger who has PCOS, I am taking control of my life. Not by making resolutions for losing weight but to step into this new year knowing that I'm going to make the choices and decisions that will change my life by choosing to complete program after program. By eating the foods I know my body needs and limiting the foods that my head wants. Not stopping because that's not life, but limiting them and saving them for special occasions and really making them count.
If you're tired of waiting for the world to return back to normal, take your own fate and your own life in your hands. Join us in our group! SEND ME AN EMAIL RIGHT NOW SAYING I WANT IN YOUR GROUP! to connectthedotsginger@gmail.com! We've actually got 2. Choose from any of our complete fitness programs included on our online library that you can do right in your house, or at a gym, whatever you fancy, or UPGRADE to join me in doing the brand new program 9 Week Control Freak. Commit to showing up every day to the workout. Commit to completing it and then move on to the next while working every day on your mindset about foods and following the principals of the nutrition programs helping you uplevel your health and wellness!
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