Is There a Fire in You?

So every time I leave Fit Energy, I pass a billboard on my way home that says "Is there a fire in you?"  I believe the billboard is trying to recruit volunteer fire fighters... but every time I pass it, I smile.  You know why?  Because for the first time in my 33 years of existence, I KNOW I have a fire in me.  For the first time in my life I am not trying to follow a diet.  I am not going to zumba when someone else goes... I am not walking once a week for 15 minutes and calling it exercise.  I HAVE A FIRE IN ME.

From the first time I stepped into Fit Energy and made it through the first work out... I CHANGED.  I can't explain it to anyone who hasn't had it happen to them, but when the time is right and everything has fallen into place, you just know. No one can make you ready.  No one can guilt you into being ready.  No one can explain to you enough to make you ready.  No one can force you to be ready.  YOU have to decide for yourself that enough is enough and you don't have to live that way any longer. 

I always thought that getting healthy would be impossible.  I thought it was something that other people did.  I have plenty of friends who have lost weight.  I have had friends lose a TREMENDOUS amount of weight... but that was them not ME!  I thought I would have to sacrifice all foods I liked and eat the most disgusting things ever.  GUESS WHAT?  I don't!  THANK GOD!  But that is why I failed before.  For one I was not ready.  Mentally I just wasn't there.  I wasn't committed to anything.  I would stumble one time and give up.  And secondly, I tried to eat things I didn't like.  I tried fad diets that others tried.  I tried hiding what I ate, I tried showing what I ate,  I tried eating less, I tried eating more, I tried eating meat, I tried not eating meat.  I TRIED.  But I was not ready.  NOT READY I tell you. 

Now, I am ready!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I HAVE A FIRE IN ME!  I will not stop.  Ever.  Not even when I am 130 lbs.  I will not stop.  Because what I am doing now is being healthy.  It has nothing to do with weight.  I mean, yes, I need to lose weight and I celebrate when I do lose weight... but this is about being healthy.  Not just in food, but in every day life.  It's about drinking water and not adding sugar to it.  It's about eating a vegetable and really tasting it instead of putting salt on it.  It's about loving myself.  No matter who else does!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 


Do you have a fire in you??????????  When you are ready to commit to changing your LIFE, you will do it.  Just watch out... because once you decide to make that change... it is the best and most rewarding feeling of your life.