Fitindex, Pippi and me!

1 Timothy 4:8
"For bodily exercise is of a little profit, but godliness is profitable for everything, holding the promise of the present life and of the one coming."

So, I have battled weight all my adult life. Hard to believe my name was Pippi Longstockings through third grade. I was always the tallest kid in my class and my pretty blond childlike hair turned red before it turned brown, (I think from a fever I had.) Anyways, long gone are those days. In the summer before sixth grade everyone shot up and I, well-I quit growing. I am the same height I was in sixth grade. My weight however, climbed. College was a challenge I gained the freshman fifteen and then some. By the time I married I was twenty five pounds heavier than my highschool graduation weight. At least no one called me Pippi anymore. See video here if it doesn't show up below and you have no idea who "Pippi is?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l32nN7YztUU​

Growing up with four little brothers and living in a neighborhood of boys, I learned early how to hold my own. My Mom and Dad both worked, and we were left alone most of the time; with me to watch my lil brothers. Later when my mother left, it was just me and Dad; and my four little brothers. We must have been a sight--but we all turned out just fine. Kids were allowed to be kids, back in my day and it taught us to be strong and well--just a little bit independent. (Those of you that know me are laughing right now.)

Back to my weight. I never looked at a scale. Never cared. Between basketball and cheerleading, band and work, all I did was eat and sleep, and let nature take her course. You can do that when you're young. Once you start having children, and working a lot, things can shift! Pounds can start piling on. So, I began to run, and run I did. I ran every race I could find to run, with the encouragement of my neighbor and friend. She was always faster than me, but that just fueled my desire. Being the competitive type I trained at 5AM with a cup of Hardees coffee. Oh, youth! It can run on anything. Today, things are a bit different to say the least.

Today, I am healing from a knee injury and the weather is cold, and, and, and... Come on you know what I mean. We put every excuse, above what we know is best for our temple. We also know, if we don't take care of our temple, we will get evicted. I want to live long and live strong. So today, I try out my healing knee. I will not start too fast (which is what caused the knee injury in May after a bout with Anaphylaxis Shock caused by an antibiotic, and then complications from that event, coupled with me starting back running too fast, too soon!) Oh, how I hate learning things the hard way! Keeping the past the past, I will begin again--today. After all if first you don't succeed? Try, try, again!

ACTION STEP: Okay, so there is my story. I know you have one too. So, let's work together to make some changes going into 2021. We are still here, and we have many assignments left unfinished. We need to be strong, to finish our race set before us. Let's get started now for an easy transition into the best years of our life. Oh, and get yourself a Fitindex scale. They are amazing. They tell you everything you want to know and don't want to know, but they are worth the price. I got mine on Amazon for around twenty bucks. We got this!