OCTOBER THOUGHTS: Fall Brings Colorful Change & Opportunity!

Hi everyone! I am starting a monthly letter for you. My goal is to continue to inspire all of you to move towards a wonderful healthy lifestyle. I enjoy sharing my journey and craziness with all of you and keep you up to date with what’s new.

Each Month I Will Share a Quick Insight

This month, I have written a note about fall and what opportunities await within all our lives if you choose to change our focus. Let's join together during this month of seasonal change and shift our realities toward something amazing.

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Do you want or need change in your life? How about we all use this seasonal shift as inspiration to get moving in a new direction. We can DECIDE right now that we are going to put our needs first and work. Work on what?

Well, that is up to you. You can do what I did five years ago and start with moving my tired, sore, out of shape body. It was so hard getting myself moving in fitness, but I was finally so frightened of dying, I was beyond sick of hating myself and living in shame.

Some may start with improving nutritional behavior. This is so necessary and a HUGE undertaking. Most of us eat randomly without any focus, understanding or care. Is this you? It was sure me, I used food for many things and simple nutritional fuel was no where in my realm. I ate for comfort, grief, anger, loneliness, punishment, and to numb myself. I did not want to face my inner reality, emotions and my overall life situations and relationships.

See, food had all the power in my life. I decided I did not really deserve to feel great, like myself, or experience deep meaning and joy. Yep, I was stuck and I kept myself there … Until I DECIDED I wanted to LIVE more than anything else.

I hired a private trainer and got moving, hardest thing I ever did was seek help. I was humiliated, full of shame and scared. I knew it was time, at 56 yrs old, “the writing was on the wall.” My beloved father literally dropped dead at 62 yrs old and I was on the exact same path. I was 332 lbs, drinking daily, stuffing myself with food and sitting in my recliner all night long until bedtime.

I wasn’t sick yet, but I knew deep down it was coming. If you are without hope, living under a cloud of shame and doom, make today the day you rise up and decide to save yourself.

Wherever you find yourself, we can all benefit from adding targeted exercise into our life. My outreach is not limited to obese people; this sharing of my journey is for anyone who seeks some sort of change and support in life. I haven’t met anyone yet that isn’t “working on” or “ towards” something in life.

Lets rise together and begin the journey of moving into a healthier lifestyle that will create strong able people that will live longer in joy.

Take in the beauty of the colorful changing leaves, the falling of them in the wind as we let old beliefs, habits and behaviors go. We know from experience after winter new growth will appear. You can have the same result as all our beautiful trees if you start right now. Change is a hard hard journey but you are worth it! 

The beautiful growth and change that comes will surprise and nourish you.

Happy Fall ~ phoebe