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Wow, Wow, WOW!!!
A year ago today, I took a fitness assessment that was provided for free at my job. At that assessment, things like my weight, bmi, body composition, blood sugar, cholesterol levels, etc. were measured. While most of my numbers were “normal” I was NOT happy. I weight over 170 lbs, and was not looking cute…
(check out my health page at the top of my site, or click here to see more before photographs)
Before:
The number that threw my jaw to the floor was my % Body Fat. I had 38.1% body fat.
The now almost famous conversation that I had in my head went something like this, “Woa. 38%. That is almost 40%… THATS ALMOST 50%!!! I’m almost HALF FAT!!!”
That night, I went to the store and bought the 30 day shred DVD… and the rest was history!
I’m proud of the accomplishments that I’ve had this year:
- I worked out 30 days straight when I thought it’d kill me
- I went from running 30 seconds, to running up to 5 miles
- I graduated from the couch to 5k program
- I’ve completed 4 5k races
- I’ve completed 1 4 mile race
- I’ve lost and maintained around 25 lbs to date
- I’ve become more balanced and flexible
- I’ve gone from a size 16 to a size 8
- I’ve CHANGED my diet significantly, adding healthy and wholesome food to most of my meals.
- I’ve become a moderator or a national board related to health and fitness.
- I’ve got a blog reach of over 100 (usually quiet, but wonderful) readers who help keep me accountable.
That is a pretty damn good year, if you ask me. 
So, to the FITAVERSARY PART…
Today, the fitness wagon came by again, one year after driving through and changing my world.
I bounded into the room, ready and excited to see my numbers…
Here are some highlights:
| Last Year | This Year | |
| Weight | 168 | 146 |
| BMI* | 28.8 | 25.1 |
| Body Fat % | 38.1 | 25.8 |
| Overall Wellness | 72/100 | 91/100 |
Check out last year’s sad diagnosis…
Check out this year’s BEAUTY!!!!
THAT is meaningful change, people!
I was LITERALLY glowing all day… My Jess-i-poo took some pictures of my happiness, so I could share my excitement with you fine people…
I posed with both of my reports, last year’s and today’s…
I think this one says, “Hollerrr! I’m making myself the best me I can be and I have an abnormally huge smile!”
I’ll close this incredible meaningful post (to me, anyway) with an excerpt from last year… the day after my 38.1% epiphany…
One of the most prevalent messages of the story [kung fu panda] was that, there is no “trick” to becoming who you are destined/meant/hoping to be… No self help book, no 30 day shred workout video, and no special website that will make that change happen. In the end, we have to decide to make that change ourselves.
Anyone who has known me for any length of time has undoubtedly heard one of the dozens of “I’mma change! I’m gonna get fit! I’m gonna finish an album! I’m gonna eat only organic! I’m gonna blog every day!”
But… maybe, just maybe… a day will come and those changes that I want to see in myself will be my day-to-day… moment to moment priorities.
Love you guys…
<3
I’m so proud of you! You are such an inspiration, and I’m so thankful that you’re a part of my life. Keep up the good work, hot stuff!
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How inspiring! I came across you through twitter and the C25K program and somehow, because you were already ahead of me in the C25K thing, assumed that you had always been fit. Funny how we assume that, isn’t it? While my story doesn’t sound as linear as yours, I can relate to so much of what you’ve posted, and that has encouraged me. I love that you’re just *a normal person* who finally did what she’d been planning all along to do, and started eating healthy and exercising! That’s inspiring!
I’m so excited for you and your fit celebration and the awesome report you have to PROVE how far you’ve come. I love the idea of a fitiversary. Good work Kelsey!
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K, you look ridiculously awesome. And you are just amazing!
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Congratulations on such a life transformation! Truly inspiring
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WAY TO GO CHICA!!! You are a ROCK STAR!!! Keep it up, you are inspiring people, that’s an amazing thing to be able to do!!! Congrats on your year of fitness and many more to come!!!
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This is amazing, Kelsey! Congratulations on taking the leap and achieving such success. I’ll be following your blog from now on
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You are so AWESOME! What a fantastic year you have had, and you are the one who made it happen. You look GREAT, lady.
Keep up the good work.
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Twitter: Nicci_NiftyEats
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Kelsey you look AMAZING. I love your story and Happy Fitaversary! BEAUTIFUL pictures too!
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I am sososososo proud of you! You have made such amazing and healthy changes!
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you look absolutely wonderful and your postive attitude is contagious! way to go!
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You look great! Congrats on all your success.
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Congrats to you!!! Amazing post
Keep it going girl… you are such an inspiration!
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Kelsey! I am so proud of you girl! You have been such an inspiration to me! I am doing Jeff Gallaways traing…with a little tweaking! He does not have a whole lot of MM runs so I am doing one 30 min run MM and one for pace (more slow and steady pacing like 4 min on 30 off ish) then I will do my long runs an saturdays! Yikes! This one is only 3 miles and I did that last weekend. I am logging on daily mile lets keep eachother accountable! Maybe we can do a 5K together or I am doing a 10k in Jan!
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Good for you! Totally inspiring.
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Congrats! Just found your blog–it’s awesome!
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Congratulations! You are an inspiration! I look forward to following your blog!
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Congrats. I think that if there were more programs like that to show you your results there might be less roller coaster dieters and more healthy people. How great you put in all the work and got tons of benefits!
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wOAH! you look ridiculous kelsey! So proud of you!
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Twitter: haikutofu
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Congratulations! I came across your blog through VegWeb, then Nifty Eats, and I was surprised that we live in the same town. Small world!
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CONGRATS, girl! That is AWESOME that you turned your health around in a year! You are simply glowing now.
Way to go!
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