Boot Camp Update. Week #3

I do it for them.  Them, being my two little girls. It’s like this…I have struggled with my weight all my life. My size didn’t bother me so much because I felt (and still feel) that true beauty lies within. I tried not to beat myself up about my weight. I also tried diet, after diet, after ridiculous diet tactic. Does anyone remember the “cookie diet” craze of the early 1990′s?

It was not bad enough that I lost my biological father when I was 21 due to obesity related complications but when I saw myself going down the same diabetic path of so many of my relatives, I knew I had to do something. 

My experience this month with Boot Camp has been refreshing for so many reasons. I am usually the last to come in from running. I am slower than the rest. I feel awkward at times trying to do a plank stance or a push up. I still cannot do a full push up, but I am learning.  I feel funky on a balance ball and felt really weird just trying to balance on a Bosu ball today. I still show up because it is refreshing that I have 6-8 other comrades who encourage me and inspire me to keep on, keeping on. We are all in it together.

But still, I do it for them.  My two little girls who cheer me on from the stand yelling “Go mommy, you can do it.”  I do it because today, I watched them racing each other on the track.  On the way home, my 8 year old said, “Mom, you come in last in the race but you finished it, so I am proud of you.”   I do it because I know that each day I give them a reason to run the race, I am planting a seed of health and hopefully giving them the opportunity to avoid insulin shots one day because of obesity.

Each day is a challenge. We are bombarded with McDonald signs and Cola ads. But each day I chose to show up and exercise is a day they see me reach for the water bottle a little more and eat “power food” to give me strength and not become just another meal for the sake of tasting and not nutrition.

So, I do it for them…and me.  Because, the healthier I am for them, the better I am for me.

Want to experience a boot camp? Join me on Friday, Jan. 22nd at 9:30am Heardmont Park  and see what it’s all about.  Can’t make Friday morning? Here are some other freebie options to try out: 5:30 a.m Fri Hoover, 5:30 a.m One Nineteen, 6:15 Thurs night Greystone, 6 pm Spain Park, 9:30 a.m Heardmont on Fri.

Or Join the Boot Camp Experience, Saturday Morning 9:00am Heardmont Park for free demos, water and goodies from Zoes Kitchen.

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