Muscle Mommy Diaries:Volume 1

After having my second daughter, my husband and I decided we were done with the kids. It was an easy but hard decision to make if that makes sense. It is exciting to be done with getting pregnant, putting on weight, the hot flashes, the waddles, breastfeeding, and my body not being MY BODY. If you know, you know. However, it is also heartbreaking that you won’t be pregnant anymore, you won’t have breastfeeding snuggles, etc.

Welcome to my brain—it’s indecisive AF and also all over the place. When I decided that I was done having kids, I made a decision that I was ready for , I made it my mission to become a muscle mommy. If you don’t know what a muscle mommy is, let me tell you. According to UrbanDictionary.com

A muscle mommy is a women with big muscle that other girls look up to.

Muscle Mommy Journey

I am on my journey to become a muscle mommy, and I will take you along for the ride. This will be more diary style of a blog post, a personal update. Where I will tell you what I’ve been doing and my strengths and weaknesses throughout the month.

The last time I did a post regarding my weight loss journey was my post about losing 30 pounds in 6 months. Which is pretty good, about 5 pounds per month. I started at about 180 pounds in January 2023, and by June 2023, I was down to 155.

Muscle Mommy Diaries – In Body Check Ins

After that pretty big cut, I was focused on building muscle. I track this on an InBody scale that is at the gym I go to. My lowest check-in was on September 5, 2023. I was 155 pounds, with 62.2 pounds of muscle and 28.3 percent body fat. Fast forward to June 29, 2024, I was up to 161.8 pounds, with 65 pounds of muscle and 28.5 percent body fat.

I have a ways to go. Building muscle is hard. I was attending a lot of group fitness classes, which were great, but I wasn’t seeing as much progress as I wanted. So I made a change.

Hiring a Coach

That change was working with a online fitness coach (not a complete 1-1 talk every week kind of coach, but a reasonably priced coach who helped me get my macros, provided a meal plan that changed every month, and helped me structure my workouts to fit my goals.

We we set up my workouts, I was doing 7 days/week at the gym (because that’s what I want) and it was 2 leg days, 3 upper body days, and 2 active recovery days. Those active recovery days were stretching, yoga, or long walks on the treadmill while I read my book.

This was great, I did really well for a while, but I was still struggling. I stopped doing my check-ins and wasn’t really utilizing my coach like I should so I quit paying for her and doubled down on another fitness app that was significantly cheaper.

Grounds Fitness App

It has great workouts, a food tracker like my fitness pal, period tracker, community of like-minded women, etc. I’m not sponsored but I do love using this app. The app is called Grounds, and its made by BuffBunny (Heidi Somers Guzman) and I’ve been following her for the last 10 years and I just love her. (fan girl over here 🙂 )

I did a 6 week program focusing on growing the GLUTES. Which is something I am really working on – and just following the workouts and not being as consistent with my food, I did make a lot of growth on my glutes. I am very happy about that.

Currently doing an HOURGLASS program on the app, and I love it so far. I am trying to exercises, not skipping out on reps, sets, or exercises; and overall just fixing my mindset.

My Weakness

My meal planning/tracking/eating has not been perfect. In fact, I would rate myself at a 2/5 with regards to staying on plan – tracking my food – and not BINGE EATING all the snacks. This is my weakness. I STRUGGLE on this so HARD. HELP ME 🙂 haha

For real though, I am just being honest – I am not going to pretend like I have my life figured out over here with my eating. I do not. I DO try to eat my protein everyday; at the very least I try to hit over 100g of protein. Be 1% better everyday, one of my coaches at the gym said that; and I try to remember that when I am struggling.

That is my why for starting this series. If I put this out into the world that I am working on this, and I make my plan, and I follow the plan and post it I am HOPING that I will be more accountable with myself, and I will do it. (THE FOOD PART).

Because, honestly, I have everything else DIALED IN. I am at the gym almost everyday; me and my toddler – we show up. She does her class, I do my workouts, life goes on. I am making some gains, but could you imagine if I just got my food to 4/5. Man!!! I would be UNRECOGNIZABLE. For real – I am proof that you can’t out-exercise a bad diet; and my diet isn’t even that bad – its the SNACKS.

I can’t be a snack if I keep eating all the snacks!

Thank you!

Anyways – if you have gotten this far, I thank you for reading my DIARY, my thoughts, my struggles. You are the best – and I hope you stick around to watch me TRANSFORM MY LIFE. Because the first step is admitting you have a problem – and I have a SNACK & TREATS problem; and now it’s time to fix it.

What is your weakness? Let me know if you struggle with anything I struggle with. Thanks <3

Update: June 2025

This was originally written back in October 2024. I was scared to post to be honest, but I am not scared anymore. I added the pictures in June 2025 to finalize my post – and I have made a lot more progress. Here is my current in body score.