I am not actually starting the journey, this is a journey that I have been on for a few years! I am blogging this journey in hopes that it will help my friends, family and anyone else who happens to come across this to maybe help encourage them on their journey.
When I first started this journey, I had just returned from a Spring Break trip to New York City. New York City is a city where you do a lot of walking!!! So I walked all over NYC! Enjoyed myself greatly, but know now that I totally would have enjoyed myself more if I would not have been so overweight! But that is when the gears in my mind started to turn and my heart began to start to want to start this journey!
When we came home from NYC, the thoughts of how can I start doing life better was still going through my head. I had talked with one of my friends on the trip and we decided that we would encourage one another. Well after we got home from the trip and got back into our routines, we really let that kind of go to the wayside.
Within the next few days, a dear friend of mine called me and said that she had to do something, that she just couldn't handle things the way they were and wanted to know if I would go to Weight Watchers with her.
Well that is the day my journey picked up speed!!! That is when I got off the curb and started to head out for this new journey!
That was in March 2008 and in November of 2008, I walked my first 5K-Turkey Trot. I just about died!! It was rough, but I finished! I had done a 5K a few years before with some friends and survived. This Turkey Trot was different because I was different! I was so sick after the Turkey Trot was over because I do believe my body was in shock and was wondering what in the world was going on...
More coming shortly....
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