FROG

At our Annual Girl Power Fitness Christmas Party, we gave out awards. One award was designed to be an award about "me". I asked my 13 year old niece what we should call it. What do people think when they think about me. She said: "3 things, Frogs, how much weight you have lost, and how much of a skittle you are" (1. I am slightly obsessed with frogs, and skittles refers to what we call ourselves because of the bright colored clothes we wear). I didn't want to just call it a frog award. I wanted it to stand for something. So came the FROG award:

Finding

Resolve to

Overcome Obstacles and

Grow

The award description read:

The decision to take back what belongs to you is a choice that no one can take away from you. Living life on the sidelines is not for them and they have their head back in the game. They know life isn’t a journey, it’s an excursion of their lifetime. They know that Healthy knows no size and that healthy is beautiful. Jacob Held said, “We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.” So watch out world she’s coming through.

I nearly cried reading the award for many reasons. I saw myself in that award. Those words were what had happened to me. I didn't want to sit on the sidelines. I didn't want life to pass me by, but at the time, I was. I was back to old habits, I wasn't eating right, I wasn't working out like I should and I wasn't treating my body the way it deserved to be treated. I can either keep going that way or I can do something about it. Im choosing to do something about it. No more sitting on the sidelines. No more watching everyone else taking that control. Not anymore. Hello 2015. Have we met yet? I have a feeling we are going to be good friends.