Erin Does Life.

A great post highlighting two great fitblrs. Nava has been a huge source of accountability and encouragement to me, too. And Tish is new to tumblr, documenting her journey and worth a follow. 

Have I mentioned I love the fitblr community? 

girlgonerunning:

NavaDoesLife

She believed in me when I didn’t even believe in myself. For months I followed her journey on tumblr because she started where I am today (the beginning)— I’m weighing what she used to weigh. I ate what she no longer eats. I am her shadow months behind where she once started.

Each day I would scroll through my tumblr dashboard and see this woman smiling at the mirror taking her daily pic (accountability pics). I was saying to myself, “OK she’s bold and beautiful; I wanna be just like that when I grow up”, but I was too embarrassed to take any pics of me exposing the sins of my greed and laziness… yet Nava didn’t seem to care, she continued to express her inner beauty outwardly, and that alone gave me the courage to start doing the same.

Then I took another step in her direction by wanting to run regardless of my size. I didn’t think it was possible for a 270 pounder to run. She would say, “You can do it.” And I ate those words every day, believing I can. Still there were times I would simply give up and delete my blog only to come back after missing her daily encouragement. So I would create another (I did it about 3 times) and each time she remembered me and followed me again until I finally start believing in myself.

I was determined this time I was going to make it work. I start taking one day at a time, run using my c25K and posted my GPS results. And believe it or not I posted before pics of me too WOW, now that along was more of a challenge that running—- and there was my biggest supporter Nava, a stranger who became a friend over the miles, encouraged me in ways where my extended family would criticize, saying what I can’t do because of my size. I simply stopped listening to them because my friend Nava was able to do it, overcome it and achieved it. She showed me how to believe me just by watching her believe in herself.

It was because of Nava never ending journey that I was able to finally created a blog and keeps it beyond a couple of weeks, and RUN my first 5K. Now I can look at myself in the mirror and see my own inner beauty outwardly. WOW we both are looking pretty good … and our journey continues. Nava is a true motivator through her actions because she makes it happens every day!

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