CHANGE | This Time It's a Good Thing

I am fat.  I have been this way for several years. I wasn't always fat.  I used to be thin and active, a very healthy woman.  I don't know how this happened.  Well, actually I do..I quit being active and quit eating healthy.  I let stress overcome my life and for a while I just didn't care about my body, my health or my weight. I was putting all of my time into my kids and my work.  I have dealt with stressful situations over the past several years that no person should ever have to face, but I made it through with the help of Jesus Christ.  But now....it's time to make a change.  It is time to care about me.  It is time to take care of my health and my body.  It is time to lose the fat and gain the fit.  This will be the toughest project I have ever taken on, it is easier for me to care about helping others than it is for me to care about  me, but I can do this with the help of my Heavenly Father.  I can change.  I can be fit.  I can be the me I have always wanted to be!!

So here I go.  2012 will be my year to make a change that will turn my unfit, fat body into a fit healthy body!! I have made this blog because it will force me to stick with my plan.  I will post pictures...most of which will be very unflattering in the beginning, but I do this so I can look at myself and face the truth.  I also want to share my journey with you because it gives me a support system that is greatly needed!! I will change my lifestyle...not diet.  Diets always fail.  So once again...no I am not going on a diet!! I have been researching lifestyles and have decided that a raw lifestyle is the best for me.  I love fruits and vegetables and cannot stand meat!!  Beginning January 1 I will begin posting and ask you to follow along and post comments to keep me motivated!!!

I have Multiple Sclerosis and have read that the raw lifestyle brings about amazing healing for people like me who face this disease. It is my hope that I will be able to exercise again once I have cleaned my body from toxins!!

Check back in about 11 days...that is when my journey will begin!!