UPDATE ON TENTATIVE GRAND OPENING DATE….

I have to be at a Beachbody meeting in St Louis on 10/29/16, so I had to scratch that date off the possibilities list and will be working to figure out what date will work for Grand Opening Date ASAP!

Maybe Sunday 10/30/16???

Not 100% sure that will work, but I will make a decision soon depending on the building’s progress over the next week, I promise! As I said before some of the big jobs are done, but we still don’t have a few things complete that are necessary to have done BEFORE I can start painting and doing the flooring, so as soon as I CAN make a decision, I will let you all know!

AND….I know it has only been 3 workdays since my last update blog, but look at all the progress!!!!  I am STOKED!🙂🙂🙂

Progression of the block supporting wall removal and beam going up!

Temporary walls are up to support during the removal. (Thursday)

Block Wall is down temporary walls awaiting the new Support Beam and small pillars.(Friday)

Beam is up! (Saturday)

All temporary walls are down and the floor is extended to the back of the room! (Monday)

Bathroom floor and plumbing almost done! (Tuesday)

So, amazing progress is being made, but there are still a few major things, and then a LOT of cleaning jobs and some cosmetic things that need to be completed.  My excitement AND my anxiety are growing daily!  LOL!  But the anxiety can always be brought down to a manageable level when I think about how amazing my future is going to be!

❤❤ Love to all of you who are supporting me through this wonderful time!❤❤

Happy Friday!!!

I am typing this through some very bittersweet happy yet sad at the same time tears.

As you know, I have been teaching Zumba and Tabata classes at Legacy Martial Arts for almost 4 years!  But as of the end of September, my time there is coming to an end.😦 I have loved being part of the Legacy Family, and hope they still consider me as a little part of it even after the changes.

However, if you do not know, the reason I am leaving is because I am opening my own small fitness studio.  We will not be ready to fully open until sometime around November 1st, but I will announce classes and new schedules as we get closer to the opening.

I started with a dream and a dilapidated, gutted house.  It is still a ways from being done, but some of the biggest projects are coming right along thanks to my wonderful contractor, Dave!  He saw my vision when everyone else saw only a MESS!

But for starters, this…

is now THIS

and THIS!!!

And this old carport….

is now enclosed and at the moment looks like this!

and that back portion that also looked like this,

went to this

and then this

and now it is completely enclosed!

So, although we aren’t there yet, we are making progress!🙂

Keep an eye on my website www.bodybybrendat.net for announcements, class schedules, and price lists!  And please feel free to email me at bodybybrendat@outlook.com if you want on my email list!

Hope to see you All in class soon!🙂

Got your attention didn’t I?

Well, if you know me, then you KNOW that I am going to say that the secret really is no secret!

You simply show up and live your life in a healthy way that matches your goals DAILY.

Yes, EVERY F-ing DAY!

It is the same with a successful business.  If you want to become successful and CONTINUE to BE successful, you don’t get there and say, “COOL!  I’m done working now!”

It does NOT work that way!

Don’t take this as an assault on YOU, I am saying this to Me as much as anyone, because I have STILL been slacking lately.   I am scared and/or frustrated with how some things are going in my life, and I am turning to comfort foods and booze to numb me out to them.  Some are actually even good things, but they scare me even more than the bad things, because I am not as used to having good things happen to me.  Unfamiliar territory if you will.  Hey, OLD habits are hard to break!  I get it!  But each day I do my best to wake up with a grateful heart that I have the success that I have achieved and set out to do my best for that day.  Some days I WIN, and some days I FAIL MISERABLY!   It happens!  But that doesn’t mean I GIVE UP!  It simply means that I try again tomorrow.

I was looking at some of my pictures from when I was my most fit.  They were taken a few years back before my Dad got bad and before the Menopause Monster took over my body!😛

My husband tells me,”Stop worrying about it! You look great!  And that a woman your age should be so lucky as to look like you do. But at your age, you also need to stop worrying about finding those abs again, because your hormones are probably NOT going to let it happen.”  I listened to him…AT FIRST!  But today after looking at those pictures, and thinking about what I did to get there, I have faith that I CAN get there again!  I just need to rework a few things and listen to my OWN ADVICE!  Do The WHOLE Package!  You can’t JUST workout.  You can’t JUST have good nutrition.  You can’t JUST have the BEST Supplements.  You can’t JUST have support.  You need to have it ALL TOGETHER!!!

One of my biggest downfalls is that I LOVE BEER!  And with beer often comes snacks.  Well, if I have to cut that back to what I was doing when I got to these pictures, then that is what I will do!  Beer rationing has begun!  LOL!

But when people ask me what I do when I am at my best because “that’s what THEY WANT”, I happily share whatever I can with them.  But if they aren’t willing to do things the way I do them, then they really can’t complain and say that my way simply doesn’t work for them.  I workout.  I eat right at least 80% of the time, I drink Shakeology EVERY DAY, and I use supplements when I lift heavy.  Yes Ladies, you HAVE TO DO SOME TYPE OF RESISTANCE TRAINING!  You will not get bulky!  But if you are over 35 years old, your muscles are already deteriorating and NEED HELP!  You are lying to yourself to get out of doing the work.  I know this for a fact, because I used to do it myself!

I can’t want it enough for you to make it happen.  And I certainly can not do the work for you!

You have to stop talking negative crap to yourself and invest in what WILL help you IF you are willing to WORK for it!

So, Do you WANT to be healthy and fit?

Do you WANT to be free of the prison that being obese really is.  Don’t tell me it’s not, because I have been there!  Being overweight is HARD!  And in my opinion it is harder than any workout!

Decide. Commit. Succeed!

I would love to help you if you are READY!

I believe in YOU!  And I believe in ME!  And I KNOW we can do it!  Especially if we do it TOGETHER!  We just have to make the commitment to ourselves, to keep taking steps forward on this journey every day!

Contact me today so we can work together to reach our goals!

bodybybrendat@outlook.com

I honestly just laugh at dumb asses who think they can drive me into the ground by insulting me.

1 – I KNOW I do not have the perfect body!  I never said I did!

2 – If you are the type of person who puts people down when they are doing their best to be their best, I honestly do NOT want to know you anyway. (I will pity your ignorance from afar, Thank You!)

3 – You obviously have NO IDEA the shit that I have lived through to think that you can beat me down by throwing out a, “You do look strong for a fat girl!” on a post of mine with the hashtag #StrongIsTheNewSkinny , THINK AGAIN!!!

4 – F U !

So, in response to this person who hides behind a fake name and had a profile picture of an offensive meme, I would like to say a few things that would answer his/her question, “What would make anyone who wants to get fit want to follow a fat chick’s lead?”

I know how hard it is to have your weight limit your movement.  I know what fear boils up inside of you when you even think about putting on workout clothes when they are a size 2x-3x.  I know what it is like to be bullied and put down because of my size.  I just want to be healthy and fit!  Everyone’s goal is NOT to look like an airbrushed fitness model on the cover of a magazine!  Some of us simply want to learn to live how to be healthy and fit and not feel like we can never go to a BBQ or have pizza ever again!

 Booze, drugs, and food were always there to numb me out and help me forget all the emotional and physical pain that I was going through.  Dealing with abuse and loss at a young age sent me down a rough road that I felt no one would ever understand.  And how would they?  I was told to act like it never happened and everything would just go away and be fine.  Guess what?  It wasn’t!  

So a large portion of my journey to fitness, was NOT about being physically fit!  I have to work on the excess weight between my ears just as much as the excess weight on my waist line.  And if you have heard the saying, “It isn’t really about the Twinkie!”, it really is SO TRUE!  I wasn’t, and still don’t, eat because I am hungry.  The void I am trying to fill comes from a very different place.  The void of love.  The void of success in my life.  The void from fear and/or frustration of not being able to do something.  The void left from questions unanswered.  The void left from someone making me feel like I would never be enough. 

Filling those voids is way more complicated than putting food in your mouth, but trying to use it to fill them was one of my defense mechanisms. 

(saw this on Facebook today and thought it was very fitting for this blog)

So am I the most qualified to be a health and fitness coach?  Maybe not by all standards, but I AM a Beachbody Coach.  I AM a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.  And I do come with a lot of personal experience of what has and has not worked for me.  And I will push you!  I will not coddle you and tell you that it is going to be easy, because it takes and investment of time and money, and it takes HARD WORK!  And you will NEVER stick with anything that you get for FREE!  We are a value driven, and Free is simply that.  Free of Value.

But I am also an abuse survivor.  A childless mother.  I have RA.  I have had 3 back surgeries including a lumbar to sacro fusion.  And I have been a “Give Up Drunk” who was fully prepared to die of any number of genetic diseases that I was sure to get, all while sitting on my ass doing NOTHING to prevent them from coming.

So, if you want to send me a nice note criticizing me for how much of a role model I am NOT because I am not a size 2 and I jiggle and don’t have cut up muscles or a six pack, I say BRING IT!  Because neither does a large population in America, and honestly, we don’t identify with perfect.  For most of us, not only do we not identify with it, but it really isn’t what we are going for.  Would I like to be more fit than I am right this minute?  Of course!  But I can’t be happy when that is ALL that is in my life!  I need real people.  Real food.  A beer on Fridays after a LONG week!  

I am done trying to be someone else’s highlight reel every day of my life!  I am flawed, but I work every day to be My Best ME!!!  And I would love to help YOU be your Best You!  

Email me today at bodybybrendat@outlook.com

Are you done feeling “less than”?

Are you done feeling like you are just never going to have the life you want?

Are you done being unhealthy, overweight, broke, and/or insignificant?

I was!

I had gotten to such a low place in my life back in 2008, that I really had no other choice but to make a change!  If you understand that, please listen to what I have to say next.  Because I bet you have responded to me(or at least in your head) one of the following scenarios.

Maybe getting healthy isn’t your only problem, and that your financial problems outweigh your health problems, and besides, that Shakeology and Clean Eating food that I am always talking about is way too expensive!  Right?  

Or maybe you just simply don’t have the TIME to meal prep and exercise!?!?

Or maybe you have too many health problems and you don’t think you can do one of those HARD CORE Beachbody Programs???

You KNOW my next questions, right?

What are your favorite TV shows and how often do you watch them a week?  And what snacks do you eat and drink while watching?  And did you know that to prevent total immobility, most doctors will prescribe moving over staying stationary for pain management?

I want to share a bit about my morning routine with you.  Did you know that on the days that I want to workout before work, that I have to get up a MINIMUM of 30 minutes BEFORE I can get out of bed to even consider getting in a workout?  It takes that long just for me to get my knees to my ankles moving without locking/seizing up in pain!  Yet I do it!  I many days do my workouts before work, then I teach classes 4 days a week after work and Saturday mornings!  I have RA and an L3-S1 spinal fusion.  I was never supposed to be able to workout like this.  But I do it!  I will not be ruled by my disabilities.  And I am NOTHING Special!  I am an ordinary woman who fights her weight issues and pain EVERY day as I work 40 hours/week PLUS just to make ends meet as I try to pay of YEARS of debt!  I am in the process of building my dream!  I want to help others get healthy and work to pay off their debt too!  And right now, Beachbody has an AWESOME opportunity to help us all!

I introduce the FIRST EVER

Need a little motivation to work out? We bet this will get you pumped.

Beachbody is giving away over $1 million and you can automatically qualify to split a piece of the prize! All you have to do is participate in a Challenge Group on the My Challenge Tracker App and meet the in-app weekly tracking requirements each week during the Beachbody Health Bet Contest, September 5-October 2, 2016.

It’s that simple! If you track your progress during the qualifying weeks, you’ll get an equal share of the over $1 million cash prize.

Here’s exactly what you have to do to qualify:

1. JOIN: Talk to your Team Beachbody Coach to get an invitation to join a Challenge Group. (Here’s how to find your Coach.) You must be an active participant in a Challenge Group on the My Challenge Tracker app by September 5, 2016. Download the My Challenge Tracker App here.

2. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS: Use the app to log at least five Shakeology drinks with photos and three Beachbody workouts during all four qualification weeks.

3. QUALIFY: Log your Shakeology and workouts by 11:59 p.m. on the last day of each contest week:

Week 1: September 5–September 11
Week 2: September 12–September 18
Week 3: September 19–September 25
Week 4: September 26–October 2

4. CASH IN: Meet all the requirements and you’ll automatically win an equal share of the cash pot!

As an extra incentive, Beachbody will add $5 to the initial $1 million prize for every Challenge Pack sold on TeamBeachbody.com between July 27 and August 31, 2016, up to $3 Million total.

There’s never been a better time to get healthy and fit!

Pretty Cool, huh?
So, it is time to order all of your tools!  Yes, it IS an investment in your health, but remember, if YOU don’t take care of You, the who the Hell do you think will???  And what about your family?  Who will take care of them when you are too sick or not around to?  And do you really want to be a burden on anyone?  I know THAT was what did it for me!  When I realized that I was never going to have children, and that the burden of taking care of my drunk, obese, sick, barely able to move ass was going to come down to my poor husband!  What kind of life is that for him?  What kind of life is that for ME?

And YES, I invested some time and money in my health and now I do all I can to get others to see that it is NOT a waste!  Make as big of a commitment to yourself as you do making sure that your favorite contestant on America’s Got Talent or The Voice wins the show!  Seriously, aren’t your health and the health and livelihood of your family more important to YOUR life than if someone you will never meet wins a contest?  I think You are.

So, comment below, or email me at bodybybrendat@outlook.com so I can help you choose your workout program and Shakeology flavor and get you started in the best way for You!