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18 years of Choosing to Start Over

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Welcome to were it all started, this space I created in January of 2006 to help me navigate my journey to personal health and fitness. I have come a LONG way from that first post 18 years ago and I am so grateful for all I have learned along the way. I will be coming here a lot more often over the next weeks, months and years as I have decided to begin writing, journaling and sharing here again. I hope and pray you might find inspiration here to help you along your own path to health and fitness. Please note that this 18 year journey consisted of several things I learned that did not work for me, others programs, supplements and others ideas of nutrition, health and fitness. I am leaving all these as is, so you can see my journey. I will be talking more about the different things I tried thru the years and what I learned about myself and what works for me along the way. If anything this blog chronicles my story of starting over and making hard choices to be who I someday dreamed of ...
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Doing what I can until I can do what I dream of.

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First, thank you for taking a moment to join me here, it is my prayer you will find hope and inspiration on these pages, as I share my journey in a bit more personal way. I have wrestled over the last year with success and failure and it has been eye opening for me in many ways. I have come to a few conclusions, and one is that my social media presence is in need of a change. That change has brought me back to blogging, back where it all began years ago. So, if you are wanting to follow me - this is where I will be for a while.  I have made a few self discoveries recently and I feel like I have been dragging myself around like Joy dragged sadness around on "inside out", trying to pull myself out of the fog that is the loss of my pre-cvid work life. I have struggled to figure out who I am without my almost 40 hour a week fitness job(s). [For those of you who don't know I work 3 part-time jobs which are all fitness related and all totaled almost 40 hours week - but more if ...
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Finding Motivation

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In all my work as a personal trainer the one thing that will lead to success for all my clients is to help them figure out what motivates them. Sometimes I am successful sometimes I am not. Being in the business of true change and not just another "program" means having to watch clients fail and begin again over and over, which of course is something I know about personally and is the only reason I am where I am today. True change doesn't happen overnight unless you have some very strong and impactful motivation that happens in your life. Some change because of a medical test result, or a heart attack, or other diagnoses which seems to "shock" them into action. Others find motivation because they are sick and tired of hurting or being out of breath from a simple walk or they have a big event in their life (wedding or class reunion) and they feel compelled to change. What I have learned is that motivation is a tricky beast. It seems that many find themselves ...
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My Reasons My Food My Journey

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Recently I saw someone who I hadn't seen in a while (I was so excited to see her). She is younger than me. She is a nutritionist. It came up in our brief conversation that I has just turned 50 in September and she said "WOW! You look amazing! Is it because you workout so much?" My reply: "Well working out does have some to do with it... but I feel great and look the way I do, I believe because I am gluten free and vegan".  I have a long and frustrating story when it comes to eating well. My 20s and 30s were filled with a typical SAD diet which included sodas all day and Tylenol PM at night to help me sleep. Most people wouldn't have known but I was hiding the fact that I was struggling with extreme fatigue and oh boy was it depressing. When I restarted my journey in my late 30s I had a history of caloric restriction and working out like crazy to loose weight, only to gain it back. Over the last 10 years I have learned true health has a LOT more to do ...
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50 = I'm back and Feeling Fantastic!!!

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I am back to blogging after no less than one thousand six hundred and fifty-one days, 4 years 6 months and 9 days to say it a different way.  Back to sharing my journey here instead of other social media. You might be wanting to ask me, "Why after all this time, are you wanting to share here again."? My answer,  because I have grown tired of how Facebook seems to have an ability to steal my joy in some ways, and how it feels like I am constantly having to protect myself from negativity there, and of course the constant advertisements. So, I have decided to get back to the basics, and begin again from where I started. My hope for a good long while been that sharing my struggles and my triumphs in person, on social media, or in the blogging world would help encourage others. But in the very beginning, this journal was all about me. I would come here to be held accountable, to find the courage to put on my shoes and get out the door or to resist the third bow...
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Tis the Season

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I have dreaded halloween for quite a few years... That Halloween holiday candy seemed to always be the gateway to my season of gluttony. It seemed just as I gathered enough UMPH to throw out the left overs candy.. Or finally sit down and eat the whole bag so it would be gone... There came thanksgiving .... And oh the drama and misery of that holiday... by they time Christmas came around I had just given up... Just turned off the care button. What's it matter anyway.,, I will start over on jan 2... So pass the peppermints, cookies and texas trash and I mean NOW!!! Of course my life is different now but those feelings and love love love hate for food and what I let it do to me are still there.  The holidays make me sad in many ways, because I know there are people who are going thru what I went thru. When your a food addict, when your emotional well being is ruled by how long it takes to get that soda from sonic or how quickly that blue bell can get to your mouth, when your self es...
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To me its more than a quiz.. its a symptom

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Its a thing. It's a thing that drives me a bit crazy. It's a thing that I believe shows us the symptom that many christian women in our society face. The search for WHO THEY ARE and how they fit in. I am talking about those surveys that tell you who are most like. You know the ones i am talking about .. and you have probably taken a few quizzes yourself, But just in case you are not aware. There are little quizzes out there to help you find out more about yourself. I just googled the following  "Which Star Wars Character are you" "Which Disney Princess are you" "Which 1940s actress are you" and (my favorite) "Which Nascar Driver are you"  (ha) I am sure you could find a quiz for just about anything, shoot, there are even ones for "Which Bible Character are you" and "Which Bible Verse are you" When I see quizzes like this posted to Facebook I wonder… why. I have never taken one of those quizzes, t...
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