"Have a blessed and wonderful New Year!! 2009 will be the best year ever!!!"
Personal Info And Background:
Real Name:
annemarie
Sex:
Female
Age:
49
Location:
New York, United States
Occupation:
wife/mother/grandmother
Personal Website:
Gym:
Annemarie's fitness center
Gym Location:
my home
When I Started:
Feb, 2008
How I Started:
I worked out here and there in between birthing my kids. The gym I have in my home is well equipped and I would look at it every time I did the laundry. It was only after having my second surgery for an abdominal hernia Feb.5 of this year that I decided to try the weights again..hopefully for life this time! And of course the photo I saw of myself YUK!!!
Why I Love It:
Believe it or not..I like to sweat! You know that old saying..horses sweat, men perspire and women glisten..now that's a bunch of bull. I love knowing the blood is rushing through my veins and arteries especially since my aorta was blocked at one point from below my chest all the way into my groin and blood wasn't really getting through...looking in the mirror and seeing a completely different shape than the one I was accustomed to seeing. Doesn't mean I always love it! Somedays I do, other days I hate it! Not gonna lie!
How I Stay Motivated:
Multiple ways! Everytime I take my blood pressure and it's normal, every time I see my surgeon and he tells me my bypass is still working great and my circulation is flowing at optimal levels, every time I go on bodybuilding.com and look at all the transformations each time I look in the mirror, when my husband can't keep his hands to himself..well...that's really not a bad thing and every morning when I wake up, I know I've been given another opportunity by the good Lord to live and see another day! What's more motivating than that?
BB Accomplishments:
Managing to drop thirty pounds and reshaping my body. More to go ...
Forum Signature:
Last Updated: Sep 1, 2008 2:34pm
Progress Pictures
Dec 25, 2007
Nov 18, 2008
Even though my user name says "momof8", my husband and I are raising his three boys in addition to my kids. Though I can't be their biological mother, I'm the closest thing they have, and take great pride in that. Even though my youngest child's life was cut short, he's still a part of us, and...
Have a blessed and wonderful New Year!! 2009 will be the best year ever!!!
Goal (Long):
Health, health and more health! That's first and foremost.In the last eight years, my youngest and eighth child died..enough said about that, I divorced and then remarried..and he has three young boys that we raise full time, and in 2006, I had surgery..aortic bifemoral bypass at age 47. Stress was killing me. No one could take charge of my life but me. With my health being compromised both physically and mentally, I knew I had to take charge. My long term goals are to continue to work at STAYING healthy! The looks will follow!
When I started doing this whole body changing thing back in Feb., I weighed 165 pounds. While I am not a slave to the scale, I usually weigh myself every two to three weeks. Well....got on and found myself weighing 131!!!! Yipee!!!! I was so excited and now have only 6 more pounds to go before...
Thanks MO8. My life is chaotic right now..........well, truth be known, it sucks big time. We all gotta play the cards we are dealt though. Good or bad, they are the only hand we have. Things will get better with time. Thanks for checking in on me. I really appreciate it. You doing okay?
So, you mean you are a white tail doe, and he functions as both buck, and also 'community service volunteer' for la casa,lol?;) You have so many 'fawns', so....
Yes...the point was, if that deer wants a clean forest to rut in, quit pointing your antlers at me!" Besides, I've yet to meet a mom who would mind having someone clean up the house for free,lol:)
i spend TOO much time at work...no down time, then workout last night you know about...room too hot / then too cold...just a bad night, rough morning...shoulder still boo-boo...
Hey, I was picking up trash!...isn't that what everybody would like, someone to come into your home and clean up after you! Not that its the deer's fault anyhow...I was really dismayed at the way people treat this place...and some of the stuff I picked up, YUCKKK;/ Let's just say only in a shop of iniquity or certain kinds of films will you find these things, and that's ALL I will say!
Now I think that YOU have the wrong idea,lol! Seriously, this buck kept following me around a few yards behind me everywhere I walked...I looked in his eyes and he actually almost seemed like a curious child..."Hiiii! watcha doin?" But, human boys don't have antlers, hooves and raging hormones...well, not till there 12-14 anyways,lol!
