**My Fitness Journey: A Postpartum Transformation**

As I sit here, trying to make sense of my body after two months postpartum, I have to admit that it's been quite the journey. My legs feel like jelly, and I'm struggling to even do a simple squat. But despite the challenges, I've been determined to get back on track with my fitness routine.

**The Importance of Consistency**

Consistency is key when it comes to fitness. And I should know, having two tiny humans at home who demand my attention and energy. It's hard enough carving out time for myself, let alone getting a good workout in. But I've learned that even small moments can add up over time. For me, it starts with waking up 15 minutes earlier each day to fit in a quick workout or yoga practice. It may not seem like much, but trust me, it's all about progress, not perfection.

**Bodyweight Exercises: A Game-Changer**

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a fan of squats. In fact, they're one of my least favorite exercises. But after discovering bodyweight exercises, I've learned that you don't need any fancy equipment to get a great workout in. There are countless tutorials on YouTube that can guide you through various routines and exercises. My personal favorite is the app "Tear Squad", which adds an extra level of challenge and variety to my workouts.

**The Power of Community**

One of the most important things I've learned during this journey is the power of community. Having a support system, whether it's a workout buddy or a social media group, can make all the difference in staying motivated and accountable. My "Tear Squad" cheer squad has been with me every step of the way, cheering me on and keeping me company as I work out. And let me tell you, they're just as enthusiastic about my progress as I am.

**Strapped In: Leg Press Torture**

Now, this is where things get a little real. My "leg press" workout has become synonymous with "childbirth flashbacks". It's not exactly the most glamorous or comfortable experience, but trust me, it gets results. By using a leg press machine, I'm able to target multiple muscle groups at once and really challenge my legs. And let's just say that if you're trying to lose weight after pregnancy, this is one exercise you'll want to stick with.

**Before and After: My Progress**

I've been keeping track of my progress, and it's amazing to see how far I've come in just a few short months. The before photo, taken two months postpartum, shows me struggling to get back into shape. But fast forward to the present, and I'm rocking high-waisted leggings that are helping me pull off a more toned look. It's not perfect, of course – I still have loose skin and a lingering line from my belly. But these are minor setbacks when you're looking at the big picture.

**The Benefits of High-Waisted Fashion**

And speaking of the benefits of high-waisted fashion, let me just say that it's been a game-changer for me. Not only do I feel more confident and comfortable in them, but they've also helped to conceal my postpartum belly. It may not be the most glamorous or exciting topic, but trust me when I say that having high-waisted leggings in your wardrobe is a must-have for anyone looking to get back on track with their fitness routine.

**A Special Surprise**

As a special treat for my loyal viewers, I'm excited to announce a giveaway! To enter, simply leave a comment below with one of the following: an at-home fitness routine that you've been following or an app that you love, and what's worked well for you. I'll be choosing one winner at random and sending them a $150 Amazon gift card. And if you're interested in trying out HelloFresh, use my code "TEAR15" for 10 free meals!

**The Future of Fitness**

As we head into the new year, I'm excited to continue on this fitness journey with all of you. Stay tuned for more vlog-style videos and bonus content, and don't forget to subscribe to my channel for the latest updates. And most importantly, remember that fitness is a journey – not a destination. It's okay to take it one step at a time, and it's never too late to start making changes in your life.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome back to my channel i have a very special guest with me here today miss capri rose she is four months old she'll be five months on the 26th of january so where is the time gone today's video is a little bonus video vlog style where i wanted just to share with you guys my progress update how i've been losing the baby weight making healthy changes by fitness and diet routine all of that fun stuff almost everything i'm sharing with you today comes from atomic habits make sure you watch that video i posted a couple weeks ago where i share all about atomic habits what they are how to use them because that is what i have been adopting in my life and it is not actually about losing the baby weight reaching a certain goal away anything like that it is just about creating healthier habits becoming a healthier person making better choices the small daily steps i'm taking that have already made a big difference and i will show you later on in the video my progress so far where i started where i'm at now but it is a process and i just wanted to share with you guys the tips and things that have been working for me so far what do you think you are worth everything i will tell you that i would do it again a thousand times oh my goodness but yes miss capri is doing it very well if you want more daily updates on her and carter make sure you are following my instagram stories that is where i share kind of like daily vlogs almost okay i'm gonna hand you off to daddy all right but now let's really get down to business let's talk about the diet factor because i would argue with you based on everything that i've read talking to ryan is that the diet part is about 80 of the equation what you're putting in it's going to show on the outside right so you want to be eating clean whole foods it's nothing too crazy or revolutionary in fact it's somewhat boring and that's the problem we want delicious food i want to eat doordash for every meal in summary less door dash and more whole real food i don't think about it as dieting or restricting myself especially because i am breastfeeding right now it's just about less processed food less sugar less junk and more real food so the way i have been doing things is i pretty much eat the same thing every single day for breakfast and lunch and then dinner is where i will switch things up keep it a little bit more exciting because i am not a robot and i can't just be eating the same thing meal after meal day after day i'll get bored and it's not sustainable for me so for breakfast every day now i will have oatmeal oatmeal is filling it's easy to make got our complex carbs and for me it's also really great for breastfeeding and producing milk so most days i will make coaches oats i'll add in a scoop of protein powder just to bump up the protein if things are crazy around here i'm in a hurry i will actually make these oatmeal balls i found from shark tank you just pop them in the toaster oven and they're kind of crunchy on the outside and they have the steel cut oats with toppings on the inside they're pretty delicious so that is my breakfast and i am good at eating that pretty much every single day because i enjoy it now for lunch i eat a meal prepped meal and that is a huge tip i have if you could do this prep your meals on a sunday on a monday and have them set up for you for the rest of the week it's just going to make your life so much easier you don't have to think about every single meal i am very very lucky in the sense that ryan already does his meal prepping he's been doing it for years he's been way ahead of the game so i just convinced him to make some extra meals for me so here is my lunch today just as an example but i'll have a variation of this every day so protein either salmon pod or chicken some kind of a vegetable i like asparagus and spinach those are my two favorite and then a carb so quinoa rice this is actually cauliflower rice which i don't love as much now a little tip if you're eating something that's on the healthier side and just a little boring a little bland i'll add a sauce to it just a little bit of a sauce can make a big difference so this is a teriyaki sauce it's the next day and here is my lunch it's just some kind of a white fish i think it might be cod with quinoa and green beans i mean nothing fancy but it's healthy for drinking only water for me pretty much i will have a cup of coffee in the morning more so it's like a treat to myself but all day long i drink my water and i recommend the bigger water bottle it makes it so much easier to drink more there's goals throughout the day like time stamps of how far along i should be this just makes a world of difference and then for dinner is where i kind of switch things up and i make it for me something that is sustainable because i'm just realistically not gonna eat the same thing for breakfast lunch and dinner every single day for the rest of my life like that's just boring i'm not gonna do it so instead of what i do is i have my hello fresh meals it gives me something to look forward to it's delicious it's one of my favorite things in the world i've been getting my hello fresh meals now for almost four years and i'm so excited because they partnered up with me on this video and i'm able to give you guys the best coupon code discount they've ever ever given out i am making a italian wedding soup like this to me is just delicious it's nutritious there's some kale in here we have some good protein like this is something i want to eat and doesn't make me feel like i'm dieting and hot off the press hello fresh has some new options they have a calorie smart option and also a quick and easy meal option also i want to point out there is still a pandemic going on i don't want to be going to the grocery store so i love that they do the work for me everything is delivered the exact amount of ingredients that i need i don't have to go shopping i don't have to think about what i want to make and as another added bonus because we're all bored trying to find things to do i now bring carter into the process and he helps me cook i have these toddler knives that i got so he'll help me chop and it actually becomes a fun activity and i make these meals and they last me for a couple days so it's kind of like meal prepping my dinners as well they source directly fresh and that comes to you it's not going through the grocery store as the middleman so the ingredients end up being fresher it is all set up to be completely flexible so you could change your delivery date you could skip weeks at any time for any reason there's no long-term commitment there's never once been a hello fresh meal i've made that i did not absolutely love and that's why i've continued to order with them over so many years and everything comes in recycled or recyclable materials which i also appreciate so hellofresh has given me the best code i've ever seen them give out so if you've ever been curious to try hellofresh this is the time to do it it is for 10 free meals over your first four boxes so go to hellofresh.com and use my code bevasor10 for 10 free meals i've never seen them offer a code like this so take advantage of it now is it good you made that can you believe it yeah you you draw a bite okay i'll take it the only way in my entire life i've been able to really work out is if i go into a fitness class i need that accountability i like the dynamic of being in person in a class i've never successfully been able to work out at home then it just dawned on me light bulb went off i just so happened to live with a fitness freak ryan is more passionate about fitness than anybody i've ever met in my entire life i was resistant to it and never even entertained the idea because you know it's like it's a different dynamic when it's your husband like if he's telling me what to do i'm gonna have a little sass the only time we ever tried working out together he gave me something heavy to lift and i was like this is heavy i'm not lifting that it's called working out you know desperate times call for desperate measures one other thing i was going to try was the alive app by whitney simmons there's some really great apps you can follow on your phone that makes it really easy and you don't need any special equipment so i will take you guys in with me on a little workout with ryan i'm daddy oh you wanna help you my personal trainer too all right it is time the time has come this is my little workout ensemble i have to say i love these shoes they're apl i like them because they don't have laces so here we are this is the home gym setup and this is the trainer right here trainer ryan the killer that's what i call him my two trainers i get two for the price of one today ryan's happy place he found this machine from poland somehow i guess it has 300 different setups you could do with this one machine it does everything fits in one car garage space and you can do 300 exercises everything for the entire body upper body lower body just everything as my trainer what would what would you say is your philosophy when it comes to working out just you know you just need to find a time it's preferable you get on a schedule if you can if your job and your life allows you to first thing in the morning is always best you know you kind of get in a rhythm just knock it out something is better than nothing and try to do that like at least three or four times a week so squats first we're starting off with my least favorite thing so ryan's most favorite exercise he has me do are squats and my least favorite are squats so that's fun see he wants me to go all the way down like now i want to say you don't need all of this crazy equipment you can do all of these exercises with body weight using an app this one adds a difficulty factor and down and up i'm trying to make you stronger okay well two more and one more oh good job this is my tear squad right here she's cheering me on she's hooting and hollering leg extensions set number one hold onto that yeah inside you can lean back a little bit if you'd like so your back's kind of touching that yeah and then you want to try to go come all the way all the way up for one rep and then back down slowly like a one two one two count three come on one more four nice good job hon we are halfway through my legs feel like jello they're literally shaking i'm not showing every rep and every set that we're doing i'm just showing like the overview of what we do also normally i uh would not look like this i would have no makeup and have my hair up in a bun but we're not doing that if i'm doing it on camera okay now i'm being strapped into some sort of a torture device now i'm doing leg presses or as i like to call it childbirth flashbacks it is way too soon and i have ptsd who's here my other coach i have three cheer squad travel down just past your knee close to as close to your body as you possibly can there we go and capri is cheering you on so in actuality i'm doing three sets of each but for the purposes of the video that's kind of boring okay so that's just an example workout i didn't show the whole thing so it's important to remember that you do not need any kind of crazy expensive equipment you don't have to buy anything fancy it's really just you know making sure that you carve out a little bit of time just be consistent bodyweight exercises you can find tutorials on youtube and just do what you can well now we have to tend to the kids that's what is really hard for me it's just carving out the time so just getting here is a huge huge win so now i want to come on and just show my current updated progress so far so just to remind you this is where i was at about two months postpartum you can see you know i was holding on to a lot of excess weight in my lower belly i still look like i was about 18 to 19 weeks pregnant at the time which i did not love you know so it's been since january 2nd that i've been working on my new healthy lifestyle and i'm already seeing so much progress in my lower belly so this is what i look like in my high-waisted leggings that are still helping me out sucking in a bit and then this is if i don't have that i do already have quite a lot of progress if you saw from the before i mean from the front you know i don't know if things will ever look the same i still have this line that will go eventually i do have the loose skin you can really see it when i scrunch it up and that's okay i think this just comes with the territory of having my belly stretched out to high heaven what i'm most thankful for is that high-waisted is in style i plan on just riding that highway to train as long as possible what's most important is i already feel better i'm proud of myself that i've been able to stick to it you know it hasn't been that long but i do see myself continuing on this path because i'm enjoying it i'm finding it satisfying so that is going to be it for this little special bonus video i am trying to have more vlog style and bonus videos here and there on my channel probably a couple of months is my goal for this year and if you watched all the way to the end i'm going to do a little surprise giveaway just to thank you guys who do watch my videos and watch all the way to the end i really appreciate you so let me know down in the comments what is an at-home fitness routine that you have been following or an app that you like or routine that you do youtube channel whatever you follow that's been successful for you in an at-home fitness routine leave it down in the comments i'm going to pick one person at random and send you a 150 amazon gift card i'll have all the other information in the description box also don't forget to use my code to get 10 free meals with hellofresh the best offer they have ever given out you definitely should take advantage of that all of that said thank you so much for watching and i will see you soon with a new video youhello and welcome back to my channel i have a very special guest with me here today miss capri rose she is four months old she'll be five months on the 26th of january so where is the time gone today's video is a little bonus video vlog style where i wanted just to share with you guys my progress update how i've been losing the baby weight making healthy changes by fitness and diet routine all of that fun stuff almost everything i'm sharing with you today comes from atomic habits make sure you watch that video i posted a couple weeks ago where i share all about atomic habits what they are how to use them because that is what i have been adopting in my life and it is not actually about losing the baby weight reaching a certain goal away anything like that it is just about creating healthier habits becoming a healthier person making better choices the small daily steps i'm taking that have already made a big difference and i will show you later on in the video my progress so far where i started where i'm at now but it is a process and i just wanted to share with you guys the tips and things that have been working for me so far what do you think you are worth everything i will tell you that i would do it again a thousand times oh my goodness but yes miss capri is doing it very well if you want more daily updates on her and carter make sure you are following my instagram stories that is where i share kind of like daily vlogs almost okay i'm gonna hand you off to daddy all right but now let's really get down to business let's talk about the diet factor because i would argue with you based on everything that i've read talking to ryan is that the diet part is about 80 of the equation what you're putting in it's going to show on the outside right so you want to be eating clean whole foods it's nothing too crazy or revolutionary in fact it's somewhat boring and that's the problem we want delicious food i want to eat doordash for every meal in summary less door dash and more whole real food i don't think about it as dieting or restricting myself especially because i am breastfeeding right now it's just about less processed food less sugar less junk and more real food so the way i have been doing things is i pretty much eat the same thing every single day for breakfast and lunch and then dinner is where i will switch things up keep it a little bit more exciting because i am not a robot and i can't just be eating the same thing meal after meal day after day i'll get bored and it's not sustainable for me so for breakfast every day now i will have oatmeal oatmeal is filling it's easy to make got our complex carbs and for me it's also really great for breastfeeding and producing milk so most days i will make coaches oats i'll add in a scoop of protein powder just to bump up the protein if things are crazy around here i'm in a hurry i will actually make these oatmeal balls i found from shark tank you just pop them in the toaster oven and they're kind of crunchy on the outside and they have the steel cut oats with toppings on the inside they're pretty delicious so that is my breakfast and i am good at eating that pretty much every single day because i enjoy it now for lunch i eat a meal prepped meal and that is a huge tip i have if you could do this prep your meals on a sunday on a monday and have them set up for you for the rest of the week it's just going to make your life so much easier you don't have to think about every single meal i am very very lucky in the sense that ryan already does his meal prepping he's been doing it for years he's been way ahead of the game so i just convinced him to make some extra meals for me so here is my lunch today just as an example but i'll have a variation of this every day so protein either salmon pod or chicken some kind of a vegetable i like asparagus and spinach those are my two favorite and then a carb so quinoa rice this is actually cauliflower rice which i don't love as much now a little tip if you're eating something that's on the healthier side and just a little boring a little bland i'll add a sauce to it just a little bit of a sauce can make a big difference so this is a teriyaki sauce it's the next day and here is my lunch it's just some kind of a white fish i think it might be cod with quinoa and green beans i mean nothing fancy but it's healthy for drinking only water for me pretty much i will have a cup of coffee in the morning more so it's like a treat to myself but all day long i drink my water and i recommend the bigger water bottle it makes it so much easier to drink more there's goals throughout the day like time stamps of how far along i should be this just makes a world of difference and then for dinner is where i kind of switch things up and i make it for me something that is sustainable because i'm just realistically not gonna eat the same thing for breakfast lunch and dinner every single day for the rest of my life like that's just boring i'm not gonna do it so instead of what i do is i have my hello fresh meals it gives me something to look forward to it's delicious it's one of my favorite things in the world i've been getting my hello fresh meals now for almost four years and i'm so excited because they partnered up with me on this video and i'm able to give you guys the best coupon code discount they've ever ever given out i am making a italian wedding soup like this to me is just delicious it's nutritious there's some kale in here we have some good protein like this is something i want to eat and doesn't make me feel like i'm dieting and hot off the press hello fresh has some new options they have a calorie smart option and also a quick and easy meal option also i want to point out there is still a pandemic going on i don't want to be going to the grocery store so i love that they do the work for me everything is delivered the exact amount of ingredients that i need i don't have to go shopping i don't have to think about what i want to make and as another added bonus because we're all bored trying to find things to do i now bring carter into the process and he helps me cook i have these toddler knives that i got so he'll help me chop and it actually becomes a fun activity and i make these meals and they last me for a couple days so it's kind of like meal prepping my dinners as well they source directly fresh and that comes to you it's not going through the grocery store as the middleman so the ingredients end up being fresher it is all set up to be completely flexible so you could change your delivery date you could skip weeks at any time for any reason there's no long-term commitment there's never once been a hello fresh meal i've made that i did not absolutely love and that's why i've continued to order with them over so many years and everything comes in recycled or recyclable materials which i also appreciate so hellofresh has given me the best code i've ever seen them give out so if you've ever been curious to try hellofresh this is the time to do it it is for 10 free meals over your first four boxes so go to hellofresh.com and use my code bevasor10 for 10 free meals i've never seen them offer a code like this so take advantage of it now is it good you made that can you believe it yeah you you draw a bite okay i'll take it the only way in my entire life i've been able to really work out is if i go into a fitness class i need that accountability i like the dynamic of being in person in a class i've never successfully been able to work out at home then it just dawned on me light bulb went off i just so happened to live with a fitness freak ryan is more passionate about fitness than anybody i've ever met in my entire life i was resistant to it and never even entertained the idea because you know it's like it's a different dynamic when it's your husband like if he's telling me what to do i'm gonna have a little sass the only time we ever tried working out together he gave me something heavy to lift and i was like this is heavy i'm not lifting that it's called working out you know desperate times call for desperate measures one other thing i was going to try was the alive app by whitney simmons there's some really great apps you can follow on your phone that makes it really easy and you don't need any special equipment so i will take you guys in with me on a little workout with ryan i'm daddy oh you wanna help you my personal trainer too all right it is time the time has come this is my little workout ensemble i have to say i love these shoes they're apl i like them because they don't have laces so here we are this is the home gym setup and this is the trainer right here trainer ryan the killer that's what i call him my two trainers i get two for the price of one today ryan's happy place he found this machine from poland somehow i guess it has 300 different setups you could do with this one machine it does everything fits in one car garage space and you can do 300 exercises everything for the entire body upper body lower body just everything as my trainer what would what would you say is your philosophy when it comes to working out just you know you just need to find a time it's preferable you get on a schedule if you can if your job and your life allows you to first thing in the morning is always best you know you kind of get in a rhythm just knock it out something is better than nothing and try to do that like at least three or four times a week so squats first we're starting off with my least favorite thing so ryan's most favorite exercise he has me do are squats and my least favorite are squats so that's fun see he wants me to go all the way down like now i want to say you don't need all of this crazy equipment you can do all of these exercises with body weight using an app this one adds a difficulty factor and down and up i'm trying to make you stronger okay well two more and one more oh good job this is my tear squad right here she's cheering me on she's hooting and hollering leg extensions set number one hold onto that yeah inside you can lean back a little bit if you'd like so your back's kind of touching that yeah and then you want to try to go come all the way all the way up for one rep and then back down slowly like a one two one two count three come on one more four nice good job hon we are halfway through my legs feel like jello they're literally shaking i'm not showing every rep and every set that we're doing i'm just showing like the overview of what we do also normally i uh would not look like this i would have no makeup and have my hair up in a bun but we're not doing that if i'm doing it on camera okay now i'm being strapped into some sort of a torture device now i'm doing leg presses or as i like to call it childbirth flashbacks it is way too soon and i have ptsd who's here my other coach i have three cheer squad travel down just past your knee close to as close to your body as you possibly can there we go and capri is cheering you on so in actuality i'm doing three sets of each but for the purposes of the video that's kind of boring okay so that's just an example workout i didn't show the whole thing so it's important to remember that you do not need any kind of crazy expensive equipment you don't have to buy anything fancy it's really just you know making sure that you carve out a little bit of time just be consistent bodyweight exercises you can find tutorials on youtube and just do what you can well now we have to tend to the kids that's what is really hard for me it's just carving out the time so just getting here is a huge huge win so now i want to come on and just show my current updated progress so far so just to remind you this is where i was at about two months postpartum you can see you know i was holding on to a lot of excess weight in my lower belly i still look like i was about 18 to 19 weeks pregnant at the time which i did not love you know so it's been since january 2nd that i've been working on my new healthy lifestyle and i'm already seeing so much progress in my lower belly so this is what i look like in my high-waisted leggings that are still helping me out sucking in a bit and then this is if i don't have that i do already have quite a lot of progress if you saw from the before i mean from the front you know i don't know if things will ever look the same i still have this line that will go eventually i do have the loose skin you can really see it when i scrunch it up and that's okay i think this just comes with the territory of having my belly stretched out to high heaven what i'm most thankful for is that high-waisted is in style i plan on just riding that highway to train as long as possible what's most important is i already feel better i'm proud of myself that i've been able to stick to it you know it hasn't been that long but i do see myself continuing on this path because i'm enjoying it i'm finding it satisfying so that is going to be it for this little special bonus video i am trying to have more vlog style and bonus videos here and there on my channel probably a couple of months is my goal for this year and if you watched all the way to the end i'm going to do a little surprise giveaway just to thank you guys who do watch my videos and watch all the way to the end i really appreciate you so let me know down in the comments what is an at-home fitness routine that you have been following or an app that you like or routine that you do youtube channel whatever you follow that's been successful for you in an at-home fitness routine leave it down in the comments i'm going to pick one person at random and send you a 150 amazon gift card i'll have all the other information in the description box also don't forget to use my code to get 10 free meals with hellofresh the best offer they have ever given out you definitely should take advantage of that all of that said thank you so much for watching and i will see you soon with a new video you\n"