My battle with finding my health recipe

I believe that everybody needs to find their own health recipe, something that works for them. I am going to share my battles with finding a health recipe. After graduating in Fall 1997 with my second bachelors I started a mission to become the person I always wanted to be - athletic, full of confidence, and overall happy with myself inside and out. I had tried this before, but this time was going to be different. After doing some self-reflection about when I failed before I decided to make a plan that would be sustainable and successful. I decided to work on my health recipe in two parts. Part one involved slowly changing my food choices towards an overall healthy diet. This took alot of time and patience as a searched for healthy substitutions and developed my will power. Once my diet was not a daily struggle and just part of who I was, I moved on to Part two. Part two involved incorporating exercise. I took it slow and was very honest with myself about what was working and what was not. By 2009 I had become an athletic, confident, happy person who was working out six days a week and loving every minute of it.

I am condensing my story because between 1998 and 2009 I hit alot of road blocks and my health recipe took some hits, but in 2009 I was finally that person I wanted to be, inside and out - then I got pregnant. I was very happy to be pregnant and I wanted to be as fit as possible - but due to the hot weather and being exhausted I was not as active as I hoped. Although I have a health recipe that has worked it is a little different now - but I know I can do it.