Introduction Time!

Hello there, and welcome to Kiddos and Kettlebells! This blog is dedicated to helping you to live a healthy, active lifestyle by showing you how simple and fun it can be. Even the busiest person can benefit from learning to eat healthy (even on the go!) and fitting simple, short work outs into your day is easier than you think! The main focus will be on BeachBody programs, but I may throw a few extra tidbits in here and there. So follow along and make the decision to start making healthy choices TODAY!

Please bear with me as I get this blog up and running. Things might be a bit disorganized for a few weeks, but it'll all come together slowly!

A little about me:
I'm Megan, and I'm a married, 25-year-old mom of two (hence "Kiddos"). I've been married going on 4 years, and our littles are 3 and 1. Soon to be 4 and 2! I work full time as an optician, and I'm a Beachbody Coach! Truthfully, I enjoy the Beachbody coaching the most ;) I'm a little sarcastic, and a lot disorganized. I adore running, and I'm looking forward to building on the foundation I built last summer/fall and really getting back into the running scene soon! I've completed Insanity twice and I'm currently halfway through the new 21 Day Fix program. My first few posts here will be the posts I published when I did Insanity the first time. That way, all of my Beachbody themed posts will be in one, easy to access place!

About my journey:
At my heaviest, non-pregnancy weight, I weighed 148 pounds. I'm 5'5" so that wasn't terrible, but I wasn't happy with it. That was in the fall of 2011, shortly before I got pregnant the second time around. I gained 16 pounds with that pregnancy and immediately dropped all of that weight and then some, down to 125, after delivery. I assumed it was going to be smooth sailing after that, as I had reached my ideal weight with little to no effort. Okay, so delivering a 9lb 7oz baby took some effort, but that wasn't an effort toward weight loss!. Unfortunately, and obviously, that wasn't the case. I never allowed myself to get back to my highest weight, but I did tend to yo-yo between 130 and 140 pretty consistently. When I was running faithfully last summer, I got down to about 127, but my diet wasn't on par so that didn't last long. Summer was also when I completed Insanity for the first time. Loved it. Loved. Can't say enough good things about it, as you'll see in my upcoming posts.

But then winter came, and the running had to stop. Living in Pennsylvania makes for some pretty rough running conditions in the winter, what with the 2+ feet of snow we had at one point. Between that and the consistent negative temperatures, running was out. So I turned to Insanity again. I loved it, of course, but it lost it's appeal part way through it and I tanked the last two weeks. I just didn't have it in me to keep going. I was bored. Enter: 21 Day Fix. I'll tell you all about how amazing I think that is in upcoming posts!

I think that's about all you need to know for now! Stay tuned for lots of Insanity posts and lots of raving about the magic of 21 Day Fix!