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And the reason I'm sharing this story, that used to embarasse me, is because I had no one to help me out! 

I had not a single person to motivate me, to help me out, to hold me accountable! It was me with me! I had to go really down to bounce back.

And this is me, paying forward!

Because this thing is so amazing, I should not keep it to myself! Nobody should! I never ever thought I would, one day, look and feel as good as I do now! It has been a rollercoaster of emotions! My clothes that were too tight FIVE MONTHS ago, are all big!

FIVE MONTHS!! This is insane!!

Now I need to go shopping again! Oh well 😉

But the beauty in all that is that I has not been easy! Its hard! After the long day with the girls, all I want I to go to bed, but I changed and pressed play! Because its for me! Because I love myself! Because I deserve!

And the most difficult part is to press play! Cause when you start, you don't wanna stop! And then that's the rewarding cool down, and that shower to wash off all that sweat, the sadness, frustrations, the pants that didn't fit, the muffin top. That water cleans your soul! And you go to bed to start all over tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, because its not a short term thing, you don't reach your goal and stop. Its a lifetime commitment! To yourself, your body, your health, your fitness!

I'm sold.

Hit me up and we can help each other get even farther away!
Traveling alone is always boring!

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And when she got back home, there was a box waiting! Inside of the box was the red pill, the alpha and the omega, the gold at the end of the rainbow... You got it, right? The dvds have arrived!

And that lady started right there! 
Actually she didn't. She had to unpack, bath the children, get something to eat, feed them dinner, put them to sleep, and theeeeeen she started!
Oh! That's easy, and fun, and.. Wait! this is hard! Frustration! I can't do it! I hate you Shaun T! Oh look! I got it! Oh I love you Shaun T!

And she danced, and danced and danced her butt off! I mean her fat off!!

One day at a time, one week at a time, one pound at a time, she was getting more and more into it, more and more hungry of all that!

Her body was changing! And she was not passive about it! She was making it change! It was all her doing! Right there, in her living room, among all the toys she didn't have time to clean up. She was on fire, she wanted it so bad, nobody could stop her!

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That lady that used to cry in the closet, (remember her?) had planed a roadtrip to DC with her family, for Memorial Day. But she had nothing to wear! 

So she went to the mall (yay! Shopping!) Nothing can go wrong when you go shopping, right? Maybe if the only stuff that fit you are XXXXXXXXXXXXL... more tears, inside of the fitting rooms.

One morning, in the hotel room, in DC, the lady with the SUPER-GIGA-BLASTER-ULTRA-LARGE fresh clothes turned on the TV and saw this dude talking about some dancing dvds. Showing pictures of before and after of a bunch of people that supposedly lost all that weight dancing. Shaun T was his name. Yeah right Shaun T, like someone can lose all that weight dancing in front of a TV.. I call it BS! Those pictures were obviously photoshopped! But there were videos. Testimonials of those people before and after their transformations. Could it be? What if I tried this CIZE? They said they'll give me my money back after 30 days if I'm not happy... It might be worth giving it a try, right? I've tried so many other useless things before... Maybe losing weight is not for me... Where's the phone? Hello? Beachbody? I want to buy this Cize thing! 

That call, on a rainy morning, in a hotel room in Washington DC, forever changed one life!

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Transformation

Let me introduce you to the lady on the left.

It's April 09 2016, and she's happy. She's happy because she is celebrating the first birthday of her twin girls! One year old! Wow! It's like they were born yesterday!

This lady has no depression or low self-esteem issues. Or at least she thinks she doesn't. The only thing that really bothers her is when she needs to dress up for a party. Like the first birthday of her twin daughters.

That's when she cries, inside of her closet, being stared at, pointed at, mocked by all those clothes she owns, but she can't wear. Cause they don't fit her no more.

She checks herself in the mirror, she doesn't recognize what she sees. Who is this person? She resembles nothing like the person she used to be! She has no idea that in no longer than 5 months she will be that lady to the right!

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I'm coming out

Allow me to share a couple of things with you.

Hit play, volume up and lets go!

I'm a coach for a few weeks now, I have hit no SC yet, but I'm really working on it.

Today I took one very scary step. I am not from here, so my network in the US consist of basically mothers of my daughter's friends from school, and my husband's friends and their spouses. I knew it would be a slow beginning for me, as I still have to build a network, but I'm furiously working on that.

Most of my FB friends are from Brazil, and when I started posting, I would post just for the friends that are in the US, cause I didn't want to bother the brazilian ones, that cannot even be part of all this with me. So I was sharing, but I was not shaaaaaaring, if you know what I mean.

Today, as part of my training, I was told to stop being a undercovered coach. So I posted publicly, for the first time, sharing my story with Beachbody.

Telling my story was not hard at all, I'm a natural storyteller. But sharing like this? PUBLICLY? FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE???

I'm not the shy type, but I sure like to keep some parts of my life private. I didn't share pictures of my kids on social media, damn I didn't even let my facebook know I was expecting my twins till 20 days before they were born! So I was really scared about putting myself out there, like this. But I did it, and I got so much love in return! 

And the second thing is about the personal development you are always talking about.

I'm a psychologist. with Masters degree, PhD and the whole thing. I have worked in crazy settings, emergencies, natural disasters, hospitals bedsides, you name it. If it had death and grief, I've been there, so why in the bloody hell do I need this self empowering quackery? I am my own personal developer!

Poor girl, so much academic knowledge, and so little she really does know.

But there's one thing I do know, is that I have a great potential, I have discipline, and I'm absolutely passionated about this opportunity, so if the ones that have succeeded said I need to work on my personal development, they must know what they are talking about, right?

So, still inspired by my coming out post, I checked out youtube for personal development, listened to the first one that I found, and the second and the third and I'm still amazed by every new aspect of my life I have just discovered! Or re-discovered. 

Oh boy! I need to get back to therapy! And I need more and more personal development!