Alicia Garcia Fit: July 2015

Thank you so much for starting this journey with me. I am so excited to finally have my blog up and running.

This blog is something that has been in the works now for a few months because I wanted to share, inspire, and motivated others. Something that seems to be lacking these days. This will be a platform of sorts to help keep me accountable in my fitness and personal journeys. I will be checking in frequently with personal updates, fashion, my favorite thing of the moment, fitness updates, and much more.

Weather you are new to fitness and healthy habits or a seasoned vet, I am so excited to get to know all of you. Please feel free to comment on my post, and to connect via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Email, etc. See the social media icons to the right of the page.

Here's little background about who I am and why I am so passionate about what I am doing.

So I have always been active and fit as I did lots of dance, cheerleading, and gymnastics in my school days. Now I have not always taken supplements, vitamins, and eaten the right foods. So that will probably be the hardest part of this journey for me. In fact after college cheer practice I would go get 2 cheese burgers, 1 large fry, and a large soda from the fast food joint across the street from the college. A very high metabolism made everything very easy for me to keep this type of diet.

(That's my amazing Big Sister on the left when she was pregnant with her first child. I'm on the right and I was 16 or 17. Maybe 125 pounds.)

Fast forward to the end of college and I got married in 2009! Hands down one of 3 of the best days of my life. Now I married into a Mexican/Italian family with both my Mother-in-law and Husband being professional chefs. I already come from a household where life revolves around the kitchen for family gatherings and big meals, but this meant more food, and lots of it!

One year to the day of our wedding anniversary I found out I was pregnant with Garcia Baby #1. What a surprise right! I gained about 20 pounds and was only mildly sick the whole pregnancy. Throwing up only if I ate certain foods. I still don't like eggs and apple juice, Potatoes still smell funny, and I can't even look at an orange! lol. My first pregnancy ended 2 weeks late and in an emergency c-section. I kept being told "if I wasn't in pain, I wasn't in labor," and that I didn't know what I was talking about because it was my first baby. After 4 attempted membrane scrapes (ouch), 5 sleepless nights, 2 trips to the ER, 12 hours of no progression past 1.5 cm dilation after water breaking and pitocin, they wheeled me to the OR. Come to find out my Daughter had the cord around her neck and was sunny side up. And the reason she couldn't progress during labor was because my tail bone was in the way with an abnormal curve into the cervix. Needless to say she was perfectly healthy!

After the birth of my Daughter I struggled to find the balance between Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, Friend, Business Owner, being an adult, and owning my own home. I obviously put more effort into some places more than others. My health and body being one of them, and while I did workout... it was very rare and sporadic with no real plan in sight.

4 years later, my Husband and I were blessed with another baby girl. This pregnancy was horrible.I was sick from the moment we found out (January 1st 2014), up until 3 hours after my scheduled/turned emergency c-section. So while being on bed rest majority of all of this pregnancy and medications doing nothing to alive my symptoms, I gained literally no weight. Anything and everything I ate came right back out including water. This actually led to me be 10 pounds less than my pre-pregnancy weight at 8 months. On top of that, even after about a dozen sonograms, we couldn't find out if she was a girl or a boy. That made preparations for baby hard. Anyway, after seeing specialist they agreed that my baby wasn't receiving proper nutrients and weighed only 2.5-3 pounds, and I was already 8 months pregnant at this point! My c-section was moved a month up and scheduled for that next morning. Even though NICU teams were waiting a ready, Baby Girl #2 actually came out 5 pounds even and left the hospital at 4 pounds. She was just a little peanut is all. "Little Peanut" was the nick name the hospital gave her and it just stuck.

I started working out about 4 months after the baby was born but still found myself in considerable pain. That combined with a few familial issues needless to say set me back and distracted me from my goals.

(The first picture is 3 weeks post c-section #2 about 150 pounds, and the second picture is 5 months post c-section about 169. I was about 159/160 before I got pregnant)

Baby girl is not 10 months old and I'm out of excuses other than pure laziness. But this girl is determined to get her body back... or at least to a healthier state. It's amazing right, how I had such trouble gaining weight during my pregnancy, but as soon as the baby came out I apparently gain weight just fine lol. Well, at this moment I am making the decision to go big or go home right! And with all of the stopping and complaining that I do during my workouts, I keep pushing because I know it will be worth it in the end.

This is me from this weekend... I got a new waist training corset that I have been obsessed with! I'm averaging about 157 on the scale these days, so I am making progress toward my goal of 135 with toned muscle:)

I want to help you become the best you you can be too. I want you to feel more energized,less stressed, and happier about life every day.

Lets do this together and see our dreams and results really happen.

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