After almost 2 years of a crazy, busy life, many changes and moving across the state, I've come to realize that IT IS TIME. Time for me live this fit life I had dreamed of a while ago and got too distracted with life to make it is stick. By God's grace, He's made a way for me to focus on Living Like I'm Fit! I'm so excited that I've finally got my head back on straight, and pray you'll be blessed in some way by the things I have learned and am STILL LEARNING on this journey. When I decided to resurrect this blog, I thought about re-designing everything, but thought it best to leave the following words so that I could be reminded of where I've come from and why I've come this way!
Read on, friends...
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(written around 2012-ish --- it's still true, so I left it!)
I started this blog a while ago after listening to a "Fat 2 Fit" podcast that I downloaded (and immediately subscribed to!). In one of the episodes, one of the hosts mentioned that if we would start living NOW like we think we would live when we "finally get fit", then we'd wind up BEING FIT. Instead, we put off the lifestyle choices that we know we need to make into habits simply because we are not what we deem to be fit yet.
I thought to myself, "that is SOOOOOO me!!" I have all these hopes and plans for my future self - you know, the one when I'm fit and I'm running 5K's every month or so and I'm being such a great inspiration to others...
But why am I putting off those decisions?? I know the decisions to make, I just don't make them. Part of me knows that the reason I put those decisions on hold is because - let's face it - it's just EASIER to do things the same way we've been doing them all these years. But there's another part...one that's much darker than that.
Part of me is afraid that when I make good decisions, people will look at me and think "what is that fat girl doing drinking/eating that healthy drink/food?"...or, "Look at that fat girl trying to run..." AND "Poor fat girl thinks one good decision is going to make her skinnier??"
So, obviously, I have some major self-esteem issues. I get that. But the other thing that occurred to me at the conception of this blog is that I can keep letting what other people think of me get in MY way, or I can just do it.
So, I decided to start living TODAY like I'm fit, already. That's where the name of this blog came from: likeimfit.blogspot.com = Like I'm Fit...living every part of my life like I were already fit.
As I blogged, I started realizing I like the thought of helping others...and I also like sharing...and I also needed to apply that "Living Like I'm Fit" philosophy to my spiritual life. I lived life on auto-pilot when it came to my spiritual life. But when I decided that if I want to live like I'm in the Word, I need to BE in the Word. It's not that hard a concept, but for some reason, I needed it put that way.
So the rest of the blog may seem like randomness...the fact is it's here mainly because of the "sharing" part mentioned above, but also because I pray that in some way the few words I peck out on this keyboard might help someone either in their fitness journey, or their spiritual journey, or their make-time-for-me journey... I'm certainly not an expert in any field, but I know it's much easier for me when I know I'm not the only one going through or questioning something. So hopefully we can help each other on this journey. :-)
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