Hi Everyone! I am excited to welcome my companions, sister tribes, from my Wix domain and new companions, tribe sisters! Though maybe we should be called snatchers. We are here to snatch what belongs to us, our self-love. My #RoadToSnatch is the journey to me through fitness, self-acceptance, mental health awareness, and believing in myself to be the Queen of my path.
“The journey itself is my home” – Matsuo Basho
I wanted to reintroduce myself and my journey to you all. Why #RoadtoSnatch? Well, let’s talk about the word Snatched. In the urban dictionary, the snatched means “a popular term in the gay community referring to good looks, fierceness, or something good” or “to have a nice body”. Was I going to be that coca-cola bottle? Was I going to be all boobs and semi-butt? Maybe I was going to have great calves! All those different shapes of the rainbow #bodypositivity I wanted to look good because I saw how big I had gotten, though I had friends and family saying they liked my body I just did not feel happy.
I never knew that Skinny wasn’t me, I was curvy but growing up I was always told I was the skinniest of our three musketeers family. I got the mentality that it was my destiny to be the fit one, the skinny one, the one that had it under control. Feeling the pressure yet? I remember telling my mom one year that I was 190 lbs., she could not believe it, and neither could I… Then I saw my stomach hanging over and I cried, and the scale was reading 199lbs. Wait 200?! I mentally was beating myself cursing at myself How could you do this?! How could you let yourself get this big!
I was always pretty active, I danced in college and I had a gym membership. I even bought PITT28 after seeing what it did for my friend. Umm $100+ later and nothing. This was 2017 that bought meal plan books and invested in a personal trainer, Okay Shay you got this! yeeeeeah let’s say I have over 20 sessions unused when I canceled at the end of the year le sigh. As you can see the I wasted $2000 or so dollars with personal training and programs I did not commit to. In 2018 I tried Crossfit, a fun family environment but bad on my knees, so I continued to gain weight, while stuck in a lackluster relationship.
The Journey Begins! 2019
On December 31st, 2018 I stared into my mirror and affirmed to the girl in the mirror that I will do better for her. I reaffirmed that I could do all things since I am a Queen. Of course, this wasn’t my first go-around with wanting to improve ahem $2000 but I did it differently this time around, I did it through my passion for dancing, most positive self-talk, being okay with failing, and being open to falling in love with myself again by doing things I use to love and accept my imperfections.
I danced and I joined a community with like-minded individuals. I had determined #RoadtoSnatch would be my mantra, a new belief, one of my new core. I wanted to look good and feel good. I went back to my motto of Hope. Faith. Love (bible reference) & Hope Faith & Confidence ( Mana ‘Olana reference to my line name in my sorority). Of course, I was happy to lose weight, but I was rediscovering myself, I was laughing more, I was glowing, and I was smiling. This is the road I am determined to follow even if it means I am creating it as I go. Even now I do not know where I am going but I know I want to keep walking this path of mine. I will continue to Choose Me.
Hopefully, my story showed I am just like you all. No matter the pictures I place on Instagram I do not have it all together still and I am still learning about myself. I want you all to notice I say SNATCH not SNATCHED because this is and forever will be an ongoing journey. It is constantly my present and future.
Thank you for tuning in! I would love to hear from you all about when you started your #RoadtoSnatch, it does not have to be fitness related but just the moment you say enough is enough I want to love me.
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