How Keely Found LJW: An Invisible String, a Pool, and a Diet Coke
Hello and welcome back to the LJW Mini Podcast! We have Keely back, and today she's answering the question everyone wants to know — how did you hear about Lexi J Wellness?
"Kind of a unique answer."
The Invisible String
Keely grew up in the same conference as Lexi in high school. They weren't best friends, never really crossed paths — Keely was a distance runner, Lexi was doing her thing — but Keely always noticed her from a distance.
"I always just thought, wow, she's a really strong, capable girl. I never saw her in trouble or anything like that. She's a really good person to look up to."
They had mutual friends, would see each other here and there, and that was it. Until it wasn't.
What Happened After College
College came, and working out stopped.
"All of a sudden I was a pretty sheltered kid so partying wasn't a thing I knew of. And when you have all those things around you and you party, you don't really have the energy to work out the next day."
By the time college ended, Keely was grinding — working as a broker, sleeping, working, sleeping. She got down to under 100 pounds as an adult.
"I really started struggling with daily functions."
She knew something had to change. She just didn't know what yet.
The Pool, the Diet Coke, and the Moment Everything Shifted
One day back when she lived in Kansas, her good girlfriend Kelsey came over from college. They were swimming in the pool, drinking Diet Cokes, being mindful.
"She was like, 'You know what you need?' And I was like, 'What?' She was like, 'Have you heard of Lexi J Wellness?'"
Keely had heard of it. She had seen the ads. She had looked and then talked herself out of it.
"Lexi is really, really strong. She's not necessarily built like me. I don't know if I could. I'm like, what is this CrossFit? I'm not doing that. All I know how to do is run. And at this point I had toothpick arms. So I'm like, I don't know what that chick's going to have me doing."
But Kelsey was in it. Her friend was in it. Keely signed up.
"I never stopped. I was immediately obsessed with it. And still to this day it only kills me."
Thank God for those Diet Cokes in that pool.
Her first week she could barely sit on a toilet. She was using muscle groups she had never used before. But slowly, the weight started climbing. She hit her original goal. She was finally not underweight.
"I love that I would have someone coach me that I can relate to. She built this from the ground up. It's not like it was given to her. And now we get to be a part of it."
It's an invisible string she probably should have picked up a long time ago. But the timing was exactly right.
The Biggest Mindset Shift
The question: what's one thing — a quote, a way of thinking — that has really impacted you?
Keely's answer came straight from this past weekend.
"Capacity is a state of mind. And this weekend was kind of that wakeup call for me."
She had a gluten flare-up from some carrot cake at Dream Team — a bad one. She spent Monday not feeling well, running on a body battery of five, sleep scores in the 30s and 40s, nauseous, not great. And she had a 16-mile night run planned.
Everyone was asking what she was going to do.
"I was like, I'm gonna eat some more food, we'll push it back. And at 9:15 I thought, I think I'm going to do it. I'm feeling good. And so I went out and ran."
She ran the driveway — 400 feet down and back, over and over. Then decided to go run on the highway, forgetting it had 1,000 feet of elevation.
"I was fighting for my life."
Around mile 13, the five body battery made itself known. But she kept going.
"My legs don't hurt. The only thing that hurts is I can tell I'm fatigued. And my gut hurts really bad from the stress and the carrot cake. If you're going to be dumb, you got to be tough."
She finished the run.
"Your brain quits so much sooner than your body. I'm not saying go run 60 miles. But even if it's one more rep like Lexi says in the workouts. Even if it's five more grams of protein than yesterday. One percent better every single day, it adds up."
"Imagine if I quit every single time the situation doesn't look ideal. I learned that from being around all of you."
One Unorthodox Thing You're Grateful For
Toe socks already got used in a previous episode. Keely had to dig deeper.
"I'm grateful that I love to eat the same thing over and over. I've been eating my overnight oats for probably six months now. If it's not broke, don't fix it. I look forward to it every single day."
Overnight oats for six months straight. Unorthodox and unashamed.
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