Food for thought.....

Remind yourself that when you cheat - you're only cheating yourself! Here are a few things to tell yourself that can help you avoid poor choices:

1. -When I eat like crap, I feel like crap
2. -Making healthy choices make me feel EMPOWERED.
3. -My body functions on real ingredients, not the fake crap.

21 Days,30 minutes a day, at home, no equipment needed--LOSE up to 10lbs!

What if???...

It can happen!  It happens again and again with so so many people--why not you?

Have a brand new challenge group starting on April 18th and would love to have you join me!  We will work together to lose those pounds before the weather gets warm!

Shorts and Bathing Suits are coming and I am going to be ready!

How about you?

Let me know if you want more information.  

Here we go!

I am so so excited to have a place to share my journey into health and fitness. 

Welcome to my newest blog --so many things have been changing in my life that it is just CRAZY!  But crazy is not always bad--sometimes crazy is GOOD!  I won't bore you will all the personal details at one time--although you will surely hear about them as I share my new journey with you.  I hope that you will join me in this new way of living....

Most of my life I have rolled along with out a real plan--taking each and every day as it comes.  Some have been great and some, well....not so great--but overall I have no regrets.  I have lived my life trying to be kind to others and loving everyone--but I really have no real GOALS--so after my 50th birthday I started to think about what I want my legacy to be--what I want my family and friends to remember about me when my time is up.  Let me tell you at 50 you realize you are most like more than half way through this life and I better make a decision what I want to do when I grow up, lol!

I made some crazy choices and changed some things that no one ever thought I would--I left my husband after almost 19 years of marriage.  It wasn't really that he was a bad person.  He was a great provider and always gave me what ever it was I needed or even wanted--as far as things go.  But he never really supported me in anything.  He made me feel like I could not do anything correctly or not be anything but who I was--his wife and my son's mom.  Not that those are bad things but as my son is reaching an age where he is not around anymore it made me feel more and more alone--so I left!  (believe me when I say there was a lot more to this situation but it is not needed right now!)

I had to go back to work--had to provide for myself again.  I took a job at the local YMCA and also found a few fill in jobs helping out elderly people.  I did this years ago and really enjoyed it.  So--- I now remember how much I do NOT like to work for corporate places hence I quit my job at the YMCA!  But I continue to work with elderly people--some with dementia, some just not able to do the things they used to do.  This was the best thing that could have happened to me.  It reminded me what I truly love to do--I love to help people!  I really and truly do love to help people! It really makes my heart happy to help them.  I always say that helping others will also help you!  You get so much out of it in ways that you would never even think. 

 The other thing that will make me feel good is to be healthy. Again, call it a mid life crisis, or maybe a better explanation is a mid life--"What the heck--if this is the middle of my life I better do something to change my health because I feel old and tired all the time" It is not just about weight---although I have struggled with the same 20lbs or so over and over and over. I used to tease my husband that we would have been rich if we had the money I spent on that 20lbs each year. It cost to gain it every winter and then it cost to lose it every spring! But honestly, as frustrating as that is to do over and over each year--it is much more frustrating to feel lousy on a daily basis. I have struggled with many health issues over the past few years--autoimmune disorders and now even being tested for heart stuff! (I did get good results from the heart tests! Praise God) I am only 51 years old and want to be around for a long time yet--and it would be nice to feel good and look good doing it!  So I joined Beachbody as a coach!  Beachbody coaching feels right! It feels like it is a perfect fit for me-- I will be able to help others be healthy and feel good about themselves and at the same time I will have to keep myself on track so that I can be an example for them! I can always justify spending time on myself if it is really for someone else! It is not that I don't care about myself it is just that I am motivated by helping others.

See you soon

Mary Jo