11/19/2019
I started a journey back to health on September 22, 2019. It’s hard and somewhat embarrassing to say that over the past 15 years of going through multiple family member deaths, 2 cross-country moves, 3 new jobs, declining health, etc, I have not really taken my health serious. I’ve been healed of Fibromyalgia, diagnosed with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis, injured my back, had the flu, blah blah blah....I’ve never weighed so much in my life and all my life said I would never be overweight. I was the skinny kid with no figure, then the thin and fit young lady in my twenties. Now I’m very overweight and found out I have degenerative disc disease, 5 compressed lumbar vertebrae and arthritis in my thoracic spine.
I don’t say this to have a pity party. These are the facts. What the Lord reminded me was about having a choice. Deut. 30:19 (ISV) says that I can choose life or I can choose death, blessings and curses. Then Lord also provides the direction. “Choose life, that it may be well with you-“. It is my decision. I started choosing life again...life for my body, life for my health, life for many more decades - hoping for 5 more decades.
In my quest to regain back my health, I started juicing with Steve who had started a couple weeks earlier for his own health. In 7 weeks I went from 224.2 to 211.6. That’s a loss of over 5% of my weight already. So exciting. I have more energy already. It is true that life breeds life. I’m putting this out there for my own personal journey and hopefully show others that generally speaking, anyone can find their way back to who they are and back to vitality. You just have to find what gets you there. Diets don’t work for me. I can’t conform to pressure of perfection and fitting into molds anymore. I know I have to do what brings me to my goal and walking with Jesus in this journey.
My goal also is to live a long and healthy life with my husband, kids and spouses, grandkids, great grandkids and who knows maybe even great great grandkids. So you may see a number posted by me every now and then. It’s just me putting it out there for me to encourage myself and maybe someone else along this journey. Be blessed and choose life. It is .
