New Friends

As part of the Live Well Lakewood Health fair I contacted several of the Cleveland’s Joy Fit Club members to come and help me introduce Joy Bauer. I thought it would be a good idea to have several of us that have lost over  100 pounds show that people that losing a great deal of weight can be done.

Shelley Napier and Kathy Stewart are coming and I have really enjoyed our conversations. The one thing that surprised me is that they both say that losing the weight was the easy part and that keeping it off is a daily struggle.

Sing it sisters. I know that losing weight is hard but keeping it off is a battle for myself and for many others as well. Have you seen Kristie Alley lately, case in point. I worked too hard to get the weight off and now it is time for me to really set a plan of action for me to keep it off for the rest of my life.

My doctors told me at 165 pounds that I was just fine but I knew that I needed to take more weight off. I am not trying to be Twiggy but I do know that for every pound on your body, you put 4 pounds of pressure on your joints. Arthritis runs in my family and that extra weight was putting unnessary pressure on my knees.

Getting to 140 pounds has been hard and I know it will be even harder to maintain it but I am going to do it. It was my dream to make it to my goal and I am going to do it soon. No more excuses just positive actions. The time for change is here and I want to be part of it for myself.