Fit Babe Academy

Here’s a little motivation and reminder that your age has nothing to do with what you’re capable of if you put your mind to it! When it comes to fat loss lot of the times I hear “it’s too late me” or “there’s no hope for me at this point” but I promise you that is the farthest things from the truth!

To prove my point, at 60 years old my beautiful client D made an amazing transformation in 12 weeks. Her main reason for coming to me for help was so that she could head into this years fire season feeling a lot better physically and I think she’s well on her way! By the end of the 12 weeks she had even started running again and was making great progress on that as well which I think is truly amazing 👏🏻🙌🏻 I’m beyond proud of what she was able to accomplish 😀

➡️Down 21.8 lbs and lots of inches in 12 weeks
➡️Not restricting any foods, just being mindful and eating mostly whole foods and making sure she was eating enough protein
➡️Weight/strength training 4x a week with minimal cardio
➡️Daily step goal
➡️Weekly check-ins for accountability

I hope you have an amazing fire season D!

The last 3 months have been a bit different for me.
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It’s taken me a long time to get up the courage to tell this story, and I’m not telling my story for anyone to feel sorry for me but instead to remind you to do the things you love more often, have fun while you can, move your body while you can, and go make your healthy a priority now and not tomorrow, because you never know when something unexpected could happen that will leave you wishing that you could still do all of those things!
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I’ll try to make this as sort as possible, but bear with me as it’s a long story!
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On November 15, I went in for spinal nerve block/steroid injections in lower spine. I’ve had them done previously so didn’t expect it to be any different this time around. Unfortunately this time, that was not the case. During the procedure which is done under local anesthetic and ultrasound guidance I started to feel sick and became very nauseous and broke out in extreme sweats. I let the doctor know right away and he just said that it was just because it’s hot in the room so he opened the door a bit to cool the room down. That didn’t help any. Shortly after that he must have went too deep with the needle past the freezing or hit a nerve which basically caused me to jolt quite a bit. He told me not to move (I wouldn’t have if he didn’t just hurt me 🤦🏼‍♀️ it was so painful!). He eventually finished and left the room. Once he left I went to get up off the table and the second I went yo get up I was hit with the worst head pain I have ever experienced. It was like 100/10. They told me it would go away in 20 minutes and I’d be fine.

It didn’t go away. 2 days later a CT scan revealed that the doctor who did the injections had injected air into my spinal fluid during the procedure. When I went to get up off the table after the procedure, that air must have travelled up my spinal fluid to around my brain causing the most wicked headache ever. They gave be pain meds and sent me home and said that my body will eventually absorb the air but couldn’t give me any idea as to how long that would take. For about 2 weeks after the procedure my headache was so bad I hardly moved from my bed. Continued ⬇️

Happy 21st Birthday to my baby girl! Even though you’re not a baby anymore you’ll still always be my baby 💕 I’m so proud of the young woman your are growing into! I can’t believe how quickly the time has passed as it feels like just yesterday I was holding you in my arms for the very first time 🥰 I hope you have the most amazing day and year ahead! Love you to the moon and back love 😘