Transform Tyla

Growing up I come from a really sporty family, My whole family were in Little Athletics, i remember every Saturday the whole family would go down to the venue and we would all go to our age groups and participate in all our events that day. I had older brothers in footy and sisters who went to state for running. And me well i was actually a good runner myself. I never actually made it to state like my sisters did i went to district which is before state so lets just say i was a state runner shall we? Yeah lets do that, I was a state runner. 

In school i would always look forward to PE classes,i would sign up for all the extra sports and i would always look forward to the athletics carnivals and cross country days.

I was always begging mum and dad to do a sport on the weekend  it took a fair bit of convincing but i did it and I signed up for soccer something i wanted to do for so long. 

I played soccer for about 5 or 6 years until i went through the party stage and just lost interest and wasn't so committed to it, Which is kinda sad because i then wasn't doing anything & i just didn't care about letting myself go which is exactly what happened.

A couple years later I Fell pregnant i then wasn't doing any sports i didn't train while i was pregnant or anything. Through out my whole pregnancy i was so adamant as soon as i had my little girl i would go to the gym eat healthy and lose weight. I was going to be one of those fit hot mums HA HA HA boy was i ever so wrong 

My little girl arrived and with a few things gone wrong after she were born with friends the gym was the last thing on my mind. I was at the lowest i have ever been in my whole life and my looks was the least of my worries at that point.

It was a couple of years later march 2018 i went to my older sisters 40TH birthday party, Where my mum stood out the front taking photos of me and Novannah I remember the exact feelings i was feeling. I was so uncomfortable, I felt so ugly and disgusting within myself. How did I let myself get this bad? I asked this question more times then once. Mostly when i had to look at myself in the mirror, I wasn't happy and in the photo I'm hidden behind a lie of a smile. From then I took on any diet that i found which now days theres so many diets out there its actually overwhelming, but i couldn't stick to any for the life of me, I would stop start stop start, I was so bad at cheating my cheat day would be every second day if not every day. I was never fully into it and i only have myself to blame for that because i couldn't help myself shoving my face with donuts, chocolate and everything else i could get into my mouth.

Taking Novannah out to play centres, parks any where a kid really loves to go, where Novannah really loves to go it was always such a battle, I never wanted to go anywhere. Now that i think of it it is actually really selfish of me for letting my own insecurities get in the way of taking Novannah out but it just was the way it was back then. I wasn't comfortable at the best of times. When we went to these places i always tried to make the most of every single moment with her, but i often found myself people watching i was always so caught up in how i looked and obviously how others looked too, why can't i be like that mum she's so skinny, she's this and she is that! Why can't i be like that? 

Instagram and every social media was the worst because id always have these skinny fit mums on my page or these skinny pretty bikini models and i would always want to be like someone else rather then myself.

With having instagram it actually come with some good things which is how i actually started my fitness journey for real this time. It only took 50000 goes before it actually stuck but hey i got there in the end. I started following these accounts and seeing a lot of girls transformation photos and i would always show my sister and say how amazing it was. As the days went by i was always looking up on these transformation photos saying why can't this be me? to all the photos i would always say one day yeah one day its going to be me.

Until one day I actually bit the bullet and signed up for a 6 week challenge, which my dad actually laughed and said how longs this going to last which i really don't blame him because like i said before i only lasted a day or even hours on diets before i was absolutely shocking.

It was August 2018 i had to get before photos taken of myself before the challenge commenced 

I had no idea how i was going to get my kit off and take photos of myself standing there like a dick with a timer on. Talk about awkward so i just let mum take them which i know mum didn't care how i looked or what not but still i was so nervous. Photos were taken and the worst mistake i made was looking at them and then picking apart every bit of my body i went into my room and cried. I knew i always said it but what did i do to let myself get that bad. I wasn't happy and i needed to change and i needed to change now. By this point enough was enough i was over being unhappy within myself i hated myself and how i let myself get. So i was so certain that this was the one time i will stick to it and make a change for not only myself but for Novannah too.

Challenge commenced and by far as eating goes i didn't follow the meal plan 100% not because i was half ass doing anything but i just didn't like the idea of weighing out foods and counting everything, i was more so scared they weren't going to feed me enough and id starve. But that didn't happen see i told you i was shit at these diets. I actually just made all my own meals with all the ingredients given and I followed the workouts 100%. Every single day in the afternoon i had a set routine were i would do my workout in the garage while my dad looked after Novannah. 

The equipment i had in the garage was a Treadmill, A Home Gym set, Dumbbells , kettle bells, ankle weights and a skipping rope, With this i had a different set workout given to me every day so no day was the same. I was doing this for four weeks and i started to think about signing up for a gym after the challenge finished.

September come around fast and that was the challenge over i actually stuck it out and gave it my all which i deffinetly seen the after photos and seen a very big difference. With doing home workouts i would find myself not so motivated and just saying ''that will do I'm done'' , which is why i wanted to sign up for a gym so badly. I talked my brother into signing up to one of our local Gyms it took a lot of talking him into it but i got there in the end. We signed up and then days later my sisters actually signed up too. We went for our first session together to say i was nervous was an understatement i was shitting my pants i didn't even want to go in and to make it even worse we all decided to do a group class together, It wasn't the very best decision we made we had no idea what was about to go down we were standing there contemplating weather we should go tell the instructor were only new here hoping maybe she would take it easy on us. , It was far to late she was here standing at the front of the class and  told us all to run the block. Run the fucking block? what block?  we had no idea we just followed everyone else pretending we knew what was going down, we really didn't and within one minute i was dying. I haven't ran in years surely this block run they talk of is the whole workout it felt like the run was never going to end. This run was just a warm up when we got back inside well after everyone else arrived i couldn't breathe i was actually dying. We done a group workout and the instructor come around checking on everyone which is when i seen it was the personal trainer i put down to train me. After the class had finished i met Alannah properly and got her card to email her about personal training. The reason i decided to do personal training was i had no idea what to do in the gym it was so overwhelming and as self conscious i was already training in a gym made me so nervous. The whole gym made me so nervous and still to this day i get nervous when my brother leaves to do his own workout. 

After a week at the gym I had organised doing personal training with Alannah which i still do to this day. To say this was the best decision i have ever made in my whole life is a massive under statement. Having someone behind you throughout your journey being your number one supporter is the best thing. From signing up to the gym and Personal Training my whole life has changed

I seen a quote the other day , '' A TRUE TRANSFORMATION IS ONE THAT GOES BEYOND JUST THE PHYSICAL. THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT FITNESS IS SEEING THE MENTAL CHANGES COINCIDE WITH THE PHYSICAL, ACHIEVING CONFIDENCE OUTSIDE OF INSECURITY . THAT IS TRULY AMAZING''

That quote is everything i have achieved in the last three months. 

Right now I am the happiest i have ever been in my whole life and i have never felt as comfortable in my own body then i do now. 

If I can do this anyone can. Trust me when i say that! If Anyone has any questions let me know I'm always happy to answer xx 

Most common questions i have been asked.

WHAT DO I EAT IN A DAY DO I FOLLOW A MEAL PLAN?

Nope i don't follow a meal plan  I just follow what I think is healthy and some things people have to remember is what works for me might not work for others. I had a food diary also that Alannah checked weekly to see what i have been eating and she would take off stuff add stuff like a teacher would mark and cross everything. 

DO I HAVE CHEAT DAYS OR AM I ALWAYS STRICT?

If you have read the whole blog you will see i am shit at diets. Of course i still cheat but i don't let that ruin it for me I enjoy the cheat and i just get straight back into it the next day. Cheat meal, Cheat day , Cheat week it all doesn't work because you will find yourself saying ill start again next Monday and it will be the same unhealthy cycle again and again it doesn't work i have been there.

DO I WORKOUT EVERYDAY.

Yes. Monday to Friday.  i don't train the weekends if i do its the River walk on the Sunday.

Wednesday i have PT one on one and then Thursday i have PT with my little brother YEP i also talked him into personal training with me too. 

I hope this blog helps a few along there journey too because i was once the girl starting out and i know how daunting it can be, I'm always happy to help anyone out.

TYLA XX 

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