Blogging some BFL: Part II
Continued from my last post...
Let's see, where was I? After completing my first BFL challenge in April of 2003, my husband and I experienced a string of adversity, including deaths in the family and loss of our jobs AND the new jobs we got after that due to bankruptcy and cutbacks. WOW--yeah, it was a tough time and all the while I could hear Bill Phillip's voice in the back of my head from where I had read the Body-for-LIFE book saying that adversity is inevitable and strikes at anytime, anywhere and to everyone. I KNEW that! BUT--I did not keep myself together and continue doing BFL...
Over the next two years I gained 20lbs and barely got any exercise. I was drowing myself in our "hardships" with comfort food, the way I always had. Junk food and sweets were my favorite poison and at the end of the two years, my body DEFINITELY showed the neglect and abuse I gave it by overeating, binging and not exercising. Let me tell you, that is a VERY scary place to find yourself in. But, there I was having been in the best shape of my life, now completely worse off and unhealthier than ever!! I was back in the vicious cycle: overeat, guilt, diet, overeat and binge, more guilt, etc. I felt intensely helpless, hopeless, depressed, worthless, disgusting and most of all SO MAD at myself that I had PLUMMETED off the wagon so bad, I felt that I was too far gone to ever catch up again. But...I had done BFL before and had a secret weapon!
One day I looked in the mirror and addressed that anger at myself for what I had become again. I turned it into the fuel and passion I needed to once again transform my mental and physical fitness. I KNEW I could do it, because I'd done it before. I HAD finished the 12 weeks and I could certainly do it again, except THIS time, it was for LIFE, not for just 12 weeks! I wrote down my goals, why I was unhappy, how and why I wanted to change and most of all why I was NEVER going back there!! I printed this out on a piece of paper that I still keep with me and revisit when I need to. 12 weeks later and once again amazingly fast, I was in the best shape of my life and feeling like I was ready to take on the WHOLE world! The energy and confidence is almost indescribable! It's TRULY an amazing transformation and NO where else will you get it so fast, focused on BOTH mental and physical fitness, AND where it's actually HEALTHY for you and has you eating food--real food!
I and many others are truly blessed to have found BFL-it was a lifesaver for me.
Let's see, where was I? After completing my first BFL challenge in April of 2003, my husband and I experienced a string of adversity, including deaths in the family and loss of our jobs AND the new jobs we got after that due to bankruptcy and cutbacks. WOW--yeah, it was a tough time and all the while I could hear Bill Phillip's voice in the back of my head from where I had read the Body-for-LIFE book saying that adversity is inevitable and strikes at anytime, anywhere and to everyone. I KNEW that! BUT--I did not keep myself together and continue doing BFL...
Over the next two years I gained 20lbs and barely got any exercise. I was drowing myself in our "hardships" with comfort food, the way I always had. Junk food and sweets were my favorite poison and at the end of the two years, my body DEFINITELY showed the neglect and abuse I gave it by overeating, binging and not exercising. Let me tell you, that is a VERY scary place to find yourself in. But, there I was having been in the best shape of my life, now completely worse off and unhealthier than ever!! I was back in the vicious cycle: overeat, guilt, diet, overeat and binge, more guilt, etc. I felt intensely helpless, hopeless, depressed, worthless, disgusting and most of all SO MAD at myself that I had PLUMMETED off the wagon so bad, I felt that I was too far gone to ever catch up again. But...I had done BFL before and had a secret weapon!
One day I looked in the mirror and addressed that anger at myself for what I had become again. I turned it into the fuel and passion I needed to once again transform my mental and physical fitness. I KNEW I could do it, because I'd done it before. I HAD finished the 12 weeks and I could certainly do it again, except THIS time, it was for LIFE, not for just 12 weeks! I wrote down my goals, why I was unhappy, how and why I wanted to change and most of all why I was NEVER going back there!! I printed this out on a piece of paper that I still keep with me and revisit when I need to. 12 weeks later and once again amazingly fast, I was in the best shape of my life and feeling like I was ready to take on the WHOLE world! The energy and confidence is almost indescribable! It's TRULY an amazing transformation and NO where else will you get it so fast, focused on BOTH mental and physical fitness, AND where it's actually HEALTHY for you and has you eating food--real food!
I and many others are truly blessed to have found BFL-it was a lifesaver for me.
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