Creating, Enjoying and Keeping a Healthy Lifestyle!
Six Steps in Progress!
Everyone knows a healthy lifestyle works, the problem is how do you get it to be yours!
Most people, when they are ready to do something, are past the point of leisurely deciding that a healthy lifestyle would be good, it is more like, oh my gosh…I need to lose weight now! So dieting becomes something they rationalize as necessary. After they lose weight they figure they will work on being healthy…like being thin means you will know how to stay there, or has anything to do with being healthy. Wrong! The only answer is to figure out how to live a lean and healthy life in the first place, which means living balanced in the six steps.
We are going to take you through a six steps journey in progress. You can see first hand how it works.
My name is Debbie Monaco.
I am a 55 year old women whose is extremely overweight. How did I get here? I am not really sure that I can explain it. I know that what I see in the mirror is not how I feel on the inside. What I feel on the inside is how I felt in my ladder 20's and 30's. I was a mere 115 lbs. Then life just sorta took me by storm. I spiraled in a downward fall and every time I would try to come up for air...I would spin again and again...totally and completely out of control. Some 100 lbs later, I woke up! My health was in jeopardy and life was really knocking at my door. Not only had twenty some odd years passed me by, but I was also finding it harder and harder to move around. I will take a wild guess here and say "its because your getting older and your over weight, Ms. Debbie!" Even though I can laugh at myself .. getting to where I am today...meaning really having the desire to really, really, really want my health was without a doubt a total melt down! I am talking, crying, anger, tantrum kinda meeting with Jesus meeting.
So here I am today....reflecting, telling you my story because....I NEED YOU...I want to be held accountable for myself and I am the type of person that needs to be held accountable to someone! It obviously, isn't something I feel I can do alone or I wouldn't be putting myself out there! Yes, I could have shared all this with my husband, but he truly was too close to the situation. Undue arguments because I was being sensitive at that particular moment or whatever the circumstances....too close for comfort. So I am putting myself out there. Looking to connect, to here your stories, so that I can build on mine and hopefully when all is said and done....we can look at ourselves and say "man, what a beautiful(healthy self) house I built!
Each week or each month I will check in and reflect on the ups, the downs, the simple facts about what is going on with me and myself! I will also hope that you will take this journey with me. The six steps that Myrna Haag has given us are just that "Simple"....lets work together, let's make it happen!
