Well hello, I'm demi, welcome to my brand new youtube channel, something I've been wanting to do
for a minute now, and I've only just finally gotten around to it. Um I figured since this is
my first video, I should probably start off with a little bit of introduction,
give you an idea of what you can expect to see from me, well hopefully if you stay. Um so this
is gonna be a fitness channel for me. Uh fitness is something I'm really passionate about. I kind
of discovered it, but we'll go into discussion more about how I discovered it, so you can
learn a bit more about me, but it's my like number one thing to do right now, especially like in a
pandemic when there's so few things to do it's actually been keeping me sane, it's ridiculous.
But um yeah so this channel I'm setting it up hopefully it'll help keep me motivated to keep
going and not get too lazy; although, you know you should be, this is the time to actually be
really um easy on yourself when it comes to stuff like that, because I mean going through every day
is hard enough these days isn't it. Um so fitness like I said is something that's big for me.
Um I kind of started into it a little bit in my mid teens I'd say. So when I was about 14-ish,
I was a little chubby, didn't really love it, um loved the comments I got even less;
although', looking back at it now. like my reaction to it would have been a lot
different. but you know when you're that age, it's everything is a little bit um touchy,
you know things like that can get to you, so I wanted to do whatever I could to lose weight
so I started to like do those little exercises you would find online, well what was online back then,
and I do them I remember, I'd do them in my room. I'd try my best, I put myself on a diet that
wasn't really much, but I did, I lost a couple of pounds, oh as I'm going through the story,
I'll try to put in like pictures when I can find, but unfortunately through um a lot of this there's
a lot of times where I just wasn't taking pictures because I genuinely just didn't feel my best;
but, whatever I can find there will be pictures somewhere.
So, um as I was doing that, I kind of lost a couple of pounds, maybe like
three or four kilos which would be about eight eight pounds-ish, um
and then I finished secondary school in Nigeria, and then I moved to Bath
in England for sixth form, and that's really when it kicked into high gear, because the sixth
form I went to had a gym that you could go to, like on the property for free because I was um
in boarding house so you could just hit up the gym, and it wasn't like anything too fancy, it had
like a studio in one part and then the second part had kind of like a few cardio machines too, like
treadmills and cycling then stairmaster, I think if I remember correctly.
Jesus! it's like a decade ago now, yikes! But um so that's kind of where I got into it. I would um
go in there like once a week, get on the treadmill do some walking, plus also when I moved to Bath,
it was less of the um the Nigerian thing of having people like drive you around everywhere,
you kind of had to get around on your own so, I was doing a whole lot more walking,
and then I got really skinny. I went down to like a really low UK four. Um, I will,
I think I do have pictures from then, I should do; but, I'll put them in if I can find them
but I was like skinny, and I also didn't love that because I missed like having a little curve.
Yeah, like once I got to the other side, I was kind of like oh I, I want to be
curvy now. You know that kind of weird thing you can kind of go back and forth through.
Um, but I kept with that. I finished sixth form, went to uni in Leicester. Um,
through my days in uni in Leicester, like the first year, I kind of fell off working out at
all because you know you know what first year in uni is like, you go a bit like
mental, or mental for me anyway because it's a real taste of freedom, like really properly
living as an adult but you're like 18 so you go a bit mad; so, I was more focused
on socializing than I was on working out or anything, but I still stayed really like small.
Um, and then kind of in the second year of uni, when I was about 20,
I kind of figured oh I should do something about fitness because I was noticing that
yeah, I was skinny, but I couldn't get up a flight of stairs without dying, so I joined the um
uni gym which, wasn't that far from where I lived, it was like a five minute walk from where I lived,
and I started doing like Pilates classes, and I do a couple yoga classes,
and I'd use the treadmill. I was too scared to ever go into the weight section at that point
and I, I remember the first time I went to a weight section, there was like a whole
bunch of people there who looked like they really knew what they were doing,
and I went and I just sat on the like abduction machine, a leg abduction, an abduction
machine and I did like 10 of them once and then I left. I never went back because it was just so
intimidating, so I then figured, what can I do because getting, walking on the treadmill was
a bit boring, you know walking in the same spot for however long just staring at the wall; after
a while, got really old so I had this bright idea. I woke up one day, I was like oh I'm just going to
go into a park and run; because you know that's how it happens, you just wake up and go running,
and I got into the park. I did some stretches, I turned the music on my phone with my headphones
and I just went off down in a sprint. and I said I got like a solid minute, minute and a half
before I had to stop and like lay on the grass and catch my breath, because I just,
I couldn't breathe I genuinely thought I was gonna die. I was like, oh demi you've
you've done it this time this time, you you've really managed to like do something to yourself,
but I was fine after a couple minutes. I'm a little bit dramatic; so, I went back home, walked
back home and got on the internet and started like looking up learning to run, and I found
this really good program on the what's it called the runkeeper app. It was like learn to run,
and I started doing that and over like course of a couple months like like three months,
I could like go out and have like a 30 minute run, so I used to just do that like every day
which looking back now is a lot of cardio, but I would do that every day and, I kind of built it up
where, to where like genuinely at a point I could run for two hours straight when I was like 21 22.
Yeah, two hours straight and that was like all I was doing so you can imagine.
Yeah, so, I was super lean, and then um one day my best friend melissa, shout out to melissa,
um she was like oh, I joined this gym, it's literally called the gym,
she was like you should come with and just see what it's like and, I hadn't been to a gym in a
while, and last couple of times I had gone, like it hadn't exactly been the most fun experience for
me, but I went anyway because like let me check it out let's see what it's like so, I looked around,
I liked it so, I joined um, I did a few classes like you know, tried to hit a few machines,
but I didn't really know what I was doing at that point, this was like when was this? 2017,
I think. Early 2016 actually, and then she was like oh you know what we're working
out because we're working let's get she was my workout partner, why don't we try using
weights and at first I was like well I don't know because I really believe the hype that you know,
if you work out with weights especially as woman that you're gonna, look you're gonna look off.
Which, I mean, but it was the learning process, so I was resistant to it at first and then
I remember after that first day like she used the weights, I didn't. I went home and I started
looking through stuff online, especially on Instagram to see just to get an idea of what
I would even do if I wanted to try using weights, and I saw all these women doing it and they looked
amazing. I was like, that's kind of what I wanted to do. I want to do it, I want to look like that
so. I went in and I did this little program I had seen somebody do an Instagram with weights and,
I felt so good after . Like, there's something about lifting weights, it just makes you feel
like buff, so strong and like yeah i had the whole thing where the next day, I could barely move,
You know, my legs were sore, my arms were sore, all of me was screaming, but I still wanted to
go back and do it again. Like obviously, I needed to take a couple of days off to rest because, I
understood that it wasn't going to be just easy, I couldn't even get up and sit down
so everything was even laying down was a problem;
so, I had to give myself a few days. I went back in, did it again loved it, and then
there was this whole process of me and her trying to figure out how it would work for us,
you know around our schedule. Um, how we could get to that, into the gym, what we would do;
so, we set up this whole split where we would do lower body one day, upper body
another day, and then like middle so like core and then in between that we will take classes like
really, and we did like some really heavy weight classes and telling you but just to kind of
supplement all that at the time and I kept going that at that point, I'm still running and one day,
I just sat down with that, I was like this is so much way too much my body, something's gotta give,
so I decided okay I'll move it from every day till every other day, I did that for like a month but
it was still too much my body, was not feeling it like to be honest how much running after a while,
I was kind of losing interest in it, so i said let me try every other day for an hour and see
how that goes and I haven't looked back since because that hour is like the perfect time for me
to end it because at that point I'm still happy, so it works for me. It's actually more like an hour a
minute and a second exactly, like I don't know why, it's just something about seeing it like that on
my phone because, I use my fitbit app on my phone to track my runs, something about seeing that just
kind of worked for me and it's still working so if it ain't broke, don't fix it and I kind of stuck with
the upper body lower body and core kind of split, that's what I do till today even in a pandemic, I
mean now it's home workouts because what gym, I mean even at this point, I don't even know
about gyms. Like, I mean like outside gyms. We've got a little section here where we kind of have
equipment, and I'm looking to like get in a few more things and just work out from home
permanently because, there's just something about having
my own space to kind of do my own thing and not having other people like in it that's really
helping me keep going. I don't know there was always something about going to gyms itself,
you know having to wait for somebody to finish on the squat rack, and they're taking ages
seeing that you're waiting but they're not that bothered, or rolling up to a machine to use it and
they haven't wiped it down, and you can still clearly see the nastiness from their own session
like plus all the other stuff that just comes with being female in a gym if we're being completely
honest. Like, avoiding all that like maybe one day after the pandemic is long gone and, I mean like,
it has to be like, oh zero cases for a few months I might rethink my stance and go back into
proper ones; but, right now this works for me and so I'm gonna keep going with it and sharing
it with you guys hopefully, uh use it as a motivation, give you guys an idea
of what I do if anybody's interested if you're starting out because it can be really confusing
as a beginner wanting to get into it, and knowing what to do. Like, the trial and error even for me was,
it was a lot, and it can it can really stop you but what helped me keep going at the start was I had
melissa as a workout partner so like every time I would be like
I'm having a bad day, I'm not feeling it she would be like no let's do it
or if she was having that, then I could be that for her and, I found that really helped to keep
me going to a point where now I can kind of do that for myself. So, if I can be that
for you guys that would be great, and you guys can even be it for me because as much as I say
I do it for myself, I still have days where I'm just not feeling that, you know, I'm just like
why, but I still do it because I know afterwards it's gonna make me happy
like those endorphins hit, and you just have such a good time afterwards such a good day.
So, that's kind of a quick rundown of the lead up to right now. I will like I said, I will put
in some pictures as much as I can, kind of give you guys an idea of where I've started, where I've been,
where I'm going like you're gonna see a lot of changes because through it all I was chubby, then
super skinny then, I bulked out then, leaned back down so you're gonna see a lot of different like
ebbs and flows in the journey, because that's how it goes like it's not a straight line it's not
oh I said right here this is where I'm going and it's just gonna go straight; no, it's like
bumps but it's like every time you get down you have to push yourself back into going you know, if
that's making sense, am I making sense? I hope I'm making sense. Anyway, honestly the more
time you spend with me, the easier it will be to understand like my way of speaking, trust me so
um yeah let me show you guys actually what I look like now. I'm in this little alphalete top
these are like actually two of my favourite active wear brands I'm wearing right now, alphalete top and
this like gymshark, these shorts from gymshark, yeah so, oh yeah that's the other thing that's
gonna be on this channel, a lot of activewear kind of obsessed with leggings or and shorts
and tops just anything from any really cute activewear brand; but anyway,
give me a second, and I will show you what I look like now.
So guys this is me um maybe, just a bit more up close, just quick warning face about to disappear.
Okay so this is me, full outfit for today just home chilling. Side.
Behind.
Other side,
and front.
But yeah, this is video one. Oh, so exciting iI can't believe I finally did it but,
I'm really pumped to see where it goes hopefully you guys come with me. Bye.