The Biggest Loser...

 So I just got back from a Zumba class which I will talk about in another post but I sat down and started watching the Biggest Loser pretty much right as I get home. This show inspires me every season and helps re-motivate me when I get down on my workouts..... which happens more often than I care to admit. Its all about not getting upset with yourself and getting back on track because when you get down and angry at yourself then your missing the reason why you workout. I workout to be healthy, feel powerful and sexy, and also because it is how I conquered my own weight goals.

Until about 14 years old I had a health problem. I was about 220 lbs and, granted, I was a tall girl but lets get real, a girl in the 200s in her early teens? Not healthy. I can remember the day when I went to the doctor and he said that I had cholesterol problems and needed to lose weight. This was at the physical we had to have for freshmen year of high school. High school, I had even entered the scariest time of most young girls lives where they are thrown into the hormonal and judgmental years that most people have years of therapy to get over. Well mine an even more unique experience as I went to an all girls Catholic boarding school.

Once I made it to Santa Catalina I felt like I didn't fit in. You could literally count the girls that didn't have Barbie as a role model and sadly I was one of them. That is not where I hit the "ah-ha" moment however because I didn't see myself as any different from the girls around me... or at least not the point where I was. In fact, I even gained another 10 lbs to get to the ripe number of 220 after my grandfather passed away my first month there.

Then January 1st hit and I decided to make a change. I'm not sure what the exact moment was but I felt that I needed to change my life. I wasn't going to be in the back seat and I just made the decision an started working out. I threw myself wholeheartedly into being healthy and never looked back. It was never "Am I going to work out today?" but "When am I going to work out today?" In fact I got so into working out that I spent all of my downtime, after homework was done of course, watching DVDs and became a huge movie fan. I don't think it was until college where I found that balance of how to integrate working out, career, and a social life all into one. Each time I move around or go on vacation it always takes me sometime to readjust and refocus on what is important to me. I am now in that stage and am working on creating that balance here in San Francisco. Some weeks are going to be better than others but just knowing that I always figure it out eventually and that the people on the Biggest Loser can do just keeps me going.

So to end this longer than usual post, I ask you to get out there and try a class or just do something that you haven't done before.