Yep. Know this one deeply. I’m in the middle of a plan to bring my body around to match the awesomeness of my business. Thanks for the inspiration and the laugh.

Does that mean you’ll start posting videos again this year?

Staying fit has always been fairly easy for me as I grew up playing competitive sports all through my 20s. I could eat pretty much what I wanted, just exercising a bit more or cutting some sweets if clothes started to feel a little tight. Working out was always my source of sanity even when school or work got crazy hectic. Living in NYC I used to easily walk several miles a day while also teaching group fitness classes, and approaching my 40s I was in the best shape of my life!

Then I had my baby and moved to the burbs… Talk about a drop in my activity level!!! I can squeeze in a quick circuit while the baby naps, but even then it’s hard to get anywhere near my old activity levels, and being home all day it’s soooo easy to snack all day… And yes, accountability is a big issue here. When your outings are pretty much limited to the playground and the supermarket, it’s just so easy to start thinking “oh well, why bother…”

So keeping fitness and health as a priority has certainly become a challenge! Like someone else who commented here, I’m still slim, but not like I used to be. And while other people probably can’t even tell, it sometimes makes me feel lousy, but I also try not to be too hard on myself. I can still do burpees faster than most people half my age 😉

I actually want to start a business connecting other stay-at-home moms who struggle with staying active and fit while going to the gym regularly is not an option. I think having a community of like-minded people would really help on the accountability front!

Cheers for you Derek for helping Chris take his training online!

Last year I saw a video of me doing a hotseat with Ramit and I looked chunky. And I realized I had gained 40lbs since I started my business. It got me depressed for a while and I decided to make a change this year.

As of Jan, I’ve dropped 21 lbs lifting heavy, doing some cardio and mostly eating properly with the weekly cheat days.

Its been doing wonders for my confidence and business (especially since my job is to literally tell guys to invest in their appearance!).

I was feeling a little guilty/weird about posting workout pics on social media, but you’ve totally inspired me to do it. I think it’ll be a nice little ego boost to keep me motivated.

Without knowing and tapping into this (I’m sick of showing with the lights off to I don’t have to see myself, my kids are unhealthily overweight because they see me and I am as well, diabetes and other illness runs and my family and got the best of my parents and that will NOT be me) sticking to a consistent health and fitness routine will be short lived. We see it every 1st of the year, and this is the reason. Lots of ambition, lots of desire, not enough reasons, enough deep rooted whys. They type that’ll get you out of bed at 5am to go workout when your alarm clock goes off and not just hit snooze, roll over, and go back to sleep. The type that WILL have you eating that cucumber when a bagel is so much more satisfying.

All the accountability in the world means little if you aren’t committed to your reasons for having that accountability in place to begin with. I’m shut up now but as you can tell, I’m very passionate about this because I’m passionate about serving my fellow entrepreneurs to continue feeling their absolute best in order to keep doing the work they love to the best of their ability while feeling and looking the way they want o feel and look in the process.

That is why Entrepreneur Fitness Academy exists – to help serve entrepreneurs committed to taking their health & business to that next level. Hope this helps and Derek, good on you man! Keep at it…. Cheers!