Here’s to you. Here’s to going for just five more push-ups, and five more after that. To skipping out on candy and going for fruit instead. To working out more than your “naturally thin” friends. To not seeing results in the mirror, but putting on your running shoes and working out anyway. To carrots, to water, to perseverance. To sore muscles and stinky socks, to clearer skin and nicer hair. To feeling the sweet sensation of calories burning from your body. To the gap between your thighs. To confidence and health. To looking like a fool when you dance, but to then looking into the mirror, and seeing major change. To the killer legs, and jaw drops. To failing and succeeding, to winning, and to losing. To not hating yourself when you mess up, because it will happen. To newer, smaller clothes. To not starting tomorrow, but starting today, or tomorrow will never come. Here’s to you, beautiful. Here’s to you.

Today is your chance. I dare you to say you can’t do it. I dare you. And you know, if you do? You’re lying. You’re a liar. Because you can. YOU CAN. Whatever it is you do, whether it be running, yoga, dancing, lifting, skipping, underwater basketweaving, WHATEVER. Do it with every ounce you have, every fiber of your being. Literally, put your all into it. Because that’s when you’ll succeed. And nobody can tell you no, except for yourself. So don’t say no. Say freaking YES. Because after all this time, you deserve it. Where has doing things halfway gotten you all this time? Remember that goal you had last year? Do you remember the promises you have made, and broken, to yourself? This is not just a journey for your body. It is a journey for your mind. You’re learning to love yourself, to keep promises to yourself, to remember that you are valued, immeasurably. A body makeover, a mind makeover. Everything is changing in the best way possible. One more lap, one more rep, one more mile, one more inch off of your waist. One less soda, one less french fry, one less binge. One more day feeling confident in the body you’re in, or you won’t be confident in the body you’re trying to get. One less night hating your body for not being “perfect enough”. Because at the end of the day, you want to be able to say that today was better than yesterday, but not as great as tomorrow will be. Progress, beautiful. Not perfection. You’ve got it in you. Just give it all you’ve got.

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muffintop-less: While I recognize genetics do play a role in the general shapes of your body, weight lifting can SIGNIFICANTLY improve on those thing you don’t like… such as making a flat or saggy butt a lot larger and perkier.There were some people that got worked up over the butt comparison photo posted a couple minutes ago, so I thought I’d address it ;) If you lift heavy enough, you WILL build the muscles underneath and CAN build a bigger, rounder, better butt. The thing is, it takes heavy weight, time and a lot of hard work. But a lot of girls don’t want to hear that. Some girls do 100 squats a day in their room with no weight and when they don’t get a butt they chalk it up to genetics. I can completely vouch for the fact that heavy weight lifting CAN transform your body. People just don’t want to hear that for a number of reasons….. mainly because it means A)- they were wrong and B)- it’s gonna take some hard work to get there.I had a SUPER flat butt, a pudgy tummy, NO biceps, TINY calves and thick thighs. I heard countless people tell me that it was all genetics and that I wouldn’t be able to change that. But guess what? With heavy weight training, proper nutrition and a whole lot of patience and hard work, I was able to build up and perk up my butt, get rid of the muffin top and tummy pudge, grow biceps, increase the size and definition of my calves and get my thighs more slender and defined.  While I recognize there ARE exceptions to every rule (some girls will have a round, perky butt no matter how small they get, and some girls will never have a bubble butt no matter how long they weigh train)… it is ignorant to say that it is NOT POSSIBLE for anyone to improve on their physique through hard work!  PREACH.

muffintop-less:

While I recognize genetics do play a role in the general shapes of your body, weight lifting can SIGNIFICANTLY improve on those thing you don’t like… such as making a flat or saggy butt a lot larger and perkier.
There were some people that got worked up over the butt comparison photo posted a couple minutes ago, so I thought I’d address it ;)

If you lift heavy enough, you WILL build the muscles underneath and CAN build a bigger, rounder, better butt. The thing is, it takes heavy weight, time and a lot of hard work. But a lot of girls don’t want to hear that.
Some girls do 100 squats a day in their room with no weight and when they don’t get a butt they chalk it up to genetics.
I can completely vouch for the fact that heavy weight lifting CAN transform your body. People just don’t want to hear that for a number of reasons….. mainly because it means A)- they were wrong and B)- it’s gonna take some hard work to get there.
I had a SUPER flat butt, a pudgy tummy, NO biceps, TINY calves and thick thighs. I heard countless people tell me that it was all genetics and that I wouldn’t be able to change that. But guess what? With heavy weight training, proper nutrition and a whole lot of patience and hard work, I was able to build up and perk up my butt, get rid of the muffin top and tummy pudge, grow biceps, increase the size and definition of my calves and get my thighs more slender and defined. 

While I recognize there ARE exceptions to every rule (some girls will have a round, perky butt no matter how small they get, and some girls will never have a bubble butt no matter how long they weigh train)…

it is ignorant to say that it is NOT POSSIBLE for anyone to improve on their physique through hard work! 

PREACH.

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