A bit off normal subject, but hey, this is my blog so why not ;) Newest artwork!

Artwork Titled *Tree of Whimsy*


This was painted for a fear co-worker who is moving away... we are forever talking about photography and art, so I thought I would send her off with something special...well.. hopefully it is special ;) This is my first Acrylic Painting... all I've done before are watercolors... it didn't take too long though, only a few hours, so more to come soon! :) 

When you face the flaming arrows of a hurtful word or deed~use them as fuel for the transforming fires instead!

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear


This post is a tad bit venting, a tad bit holding onto His strength, and a tad bit resilience...to my loverly followers, take what you can from it whatever your spiritual beliefs are... my belief in my Lord Jesus is critical to who I am, and so it will come out from time to time in my blogs :) 


Today once again, I heard of some VERY negative, demeaning, frustrating things said about me. I know the person saying these things has some deep emotional wounds themselves...and so some of that negativity is merely their own hurts and frustrations coming out.... I do not hate the one saying the words, no matter how fiery mad it made me...that too, is by the help of my Daddy God... because sometimes that's not very easy for me....  and actually...I also owe them a thanks in another somewhat un-related realm for being far stronger then in the past...and for that I am very very grateful....I can actually say I am proud of them for a wise decision made at a critical moment...and also say, I believe that strength pleased the heart of our Daddy God..... This person may or may not read this blog...I will not call them out publicly, which is why I'm being as tad bit vague, so bear with me.. ;) ... though I think they might come across this. 


THAT being said... make NO mistake... I WILL conquer this battle with my weight. Nearly 60 pounds and oodles of inches is no easy task, and i am DARN PROUD of how far I have come....... I'd like to see how some people would fare if they had to do so...  We ALL wear suits of destructive things we hide behind... Mine happens to have been weight..... it happens to be externally evident... but there should be NO pointing of fingers, because we ALL have struggles!!!!  However NOW.... that weight, which was once both physical, spiritual and emotional...has lost it's tethering.. perhaps little snippets of the emotional and spiritual elements remain, but is 97% just a physical burden at this point! 


It IS being shed, and yes, I do believe this... for me in my personal spiritual walk..... it is being shed by the blood of Christ. He will give me what I need to win this battle. He has been working on getting me strong enough mentally and emotionally the last few years to really tackle what's BEHIND my flubber suit....and that is ALL that it is!!!! The outside person needs to come now into proper alignment with who I have become inside..and the inside Aimee is MUCH stronger then she used to be... MUCH MORE willing to stand up and fight for herself and not be pushed around by others' words or even my own insecurities.... so that NOW with proper nutrition and dedicated exercise.... it is only a matter of time before I am outwardly healthy as well....how MUCH time... only He knows... but the point is, is that as long as I continue on my dedicated path.....IT WILL BE!


The point of this blog, other then my need for a bit of venting... is also to encourage those of you with weight struggles ( or any other thing that threatens to hold you in bondage to shame and feelings of low self worth and  inadequacies) that YOU ARE PRECIOUS. YOU ARE WORTH fighting for! YOU ARE one of a KIND.... YOU ARE BELOVED...... again, I am going to my spiritual roots here... so please bear with me if that's not your thing...but a verse a dear friend, in fact the friend who first told me about the depth of God;s love for me shared with me and has now become my * life* verse says... 


* ¹³ For you created my inmost being; 
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 
   your works are wonderful, 
   I know that full well. 
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you 
   when I was made in the secret place, 
   when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body; 
   all the days ordained for me were written in your book
   before one of them came to be. 
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God! 
   How vast is the sum of them! 
¹⁸ Were I to count them, 
   they would outnumber the grains of sand— 
   when I awake, I am still with you.*

Psalm 139:13-18  NIV 

I am fearfully and WONDERFULLY MADE.  YOU...are fearfully and wonderfully made!!! NO ONE is an accident to the heart of God... no matter how they were physically conceived.... 

And if faith is not something that drives you... find this truth in other ways. Look into the eyes of your children. Hear the lift in a tired voice when you treat a weary stranger with kindness at the cash register.... See the lives of those around you, each of whom you touch that no one else can..whether it's for 30 seconds, or 30 years... YOUR LIFE means something to SOMEONE! Get yourself HEALTHY... for yourself, yes...but more so, so you can POUR your love... your charity of heart into the hurting souls around you. 

Life is not about money...or fame... notoriety.... life is about relationships... nurturing people...giving of yourself and allowing others to replenish you in turn....trying to see the hurts thrown at you in a different light, and trying to see the best in others, even thru the haze of hurtful things...  if we ALL could live like that... this wacked out world we live would run SO much more smoothly! 

Okies. LOL. I know this was a kind of crazy, random tangent rant...but hey, it's my blog, I can say what comes to my heart ;) We can let the hurtful things around us either destroy us, or refine us....I am trying, my hardest, to use this life-long struggle, from every cruel name I was called as a child ( jabba the hutt) to these current flaming arrows to instead toast away all the layers of lies I've believed in about myself and strive to see myself through the lens of God's eyes, and those who are in my life He has sent to cherish me. 

Stand up for yourself... get yourself healthy, inside AND out... so you can be who you were created to be. Love deeply, forgive even when it cuts like a knife...and above all... seek goodness... for me, it is resting in Him. For others, it may be letting go of an unhealthy situation so you can breath again... whatever it is.....

I heard this on an audio book I was listening to yesterday...and it is such VERY sound advice! 

*Don't look only at how far you have to go,
but in HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME , consider your progress!* 

So let's get up, have a little cry if need be .....brush the tears of frustration away...and use anything opposing us, anything telling us that we CAN' T achieve our goals as fuel for the transforming fire instead! 

A happy little update. ;) Muscle DOES make you look smaller! ;)

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

So...!!! LAST month... I was in a 2x...loverly people kept tellin' me I was losin' and those clothes were lookin' big......WELL.. now.. 1x! Not a lot of weight movement on the scale, but the body is changing!!!! Sometimes that's all that matters!  ;) And more inches are melting too! Woot! I went through again and measured, lost a few MORE inches, PLUS found my measurements for strange places like between the bust and waist ( an evil flubber roll..but I've lost SIX inches... since FEBRUARY! ahhhhh. I adore my workouts! ;) ...in adding up those other measurements which I will list in another blog.. it was... ready? Over FIFTY inches lost!!!!! Ahhhhhh!


I got rid of a huge bag of clothes as well.. many of them SWIMMING on me!!!!! SUCH an AMAZING feeling!!!! THEN this weekend some wonderful ladies and I were chatting away before our Northland Fit Club...and I said how much I still had to lose @ minimum.... weeeeeeelll. ALL THREE of them...were like NO WAY! You can't possibly have that much to lose! SO... I am LOOKING thinner then my physical weight ;) Ahhh... muscles building beneath the flubber make me happy! SOME DAY there will be NO more flubber in the way and those muscles will be showin' in their true glory!  ;) heehee...


Anyhow..just a quick update;) But some exciting things happening for this Turbo Bear!!!! :) Stay tuned my loverlies, stay tuned!!!!

Walking in Confidence! LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!!!!!!!!

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

 It is interesting to me.... browsing you-tube... I have seen a few videos of girls that have done what I am on this journey to do, lose about 150 pounds or more total...... From their first vids @ their highest weights to further into their journey...the thing I am noticing the MOST....., even more then how amazing they look, is the change in their CONFIDENCE! Some of them start out almost shy.....and as they go along, they are getting pretty darn sassy ;) LOL. I love it, because as the Flubber Suits are being melted off of them through their exercise and nutrition changes they are like a Butterfly emerging from their Cocoon! Their true UNHINDERED selves are coming to the surface!

For me, I actually noticed a bit of this in MYSELF this past few days...I am usually insanely picky about going ANYWHERE without my make-up and hair done... because it's always been the thing I have control over.... now the other day after work, I went out to one of the big chain stores...and had no make-up other then foundation and I think some faded lipstick. lol... hair was up in a twisty thing, and wearin' my work clothes and a sweater that's getting too big on me ( one of my * new* 2x's from a month ago! woohoo! ;)...there were about 5 gazillion people in the store. lol. Go figure, right? But in I went...

Now at one point... I began to feel some of those old , rotten feelings of being super self-conscious trying to rear their ugly heads...BUT...here is the thing. I STOPPED it. I saw myself in the mirror, and instead of saying, * Holy cow... you look TERRIBLE! look at that flubber! Look at that hair! YIKES!*.... I said...* Ok WAIT. You know what girlie? You've lost FIFTY-FIVE pounds! 38.25 INCHES! STOP. So you look a little less then perfect today. It's Walmart for pete's sake, and who cares?! *

I know it may sound a little silly.. but for ME.. this was a  HUGE mental change. Some of those nasty bits of the insecurity stronghold I have held onto my entire life are fallin' off me left and right along with those pounds and inches!  (on a side note, a really WONDERFUL book about how we talk to ourselves it *Battlefield of the Mind * by Joyce Meyer... VERY powerful!). And guess what? TODAY I did the same thing. We had our awesome Northland Fit Club this morning ( burned about 700 calories in an hour! woot!) .... I hadn't even washed my hair this morn' when I showered....just stuck it up in pigtails...was wearin' my workout pants, and a sweatshirt ( and once again, this 2x is getting baggy! I know, cause both my fellow fit-club coaches told me so! ahhh!:)  and once again... no make-up! But what did I do? Off to Walmart, off to look at costumes....I was up by those stores and simply did NOT care! I even bought the most GORGEOUS dress.... it is a size 8/10.... it was 5 dollars..lol.. lovin' the thrift stores... it's gonna be a looooong time until I could possibly fit into it, but this is my * Goal dress* A beautiful, shimmery, gothicy little black dress... TOTALLY my style and TOTALLY something I would never have been able to even CONSIDER I would ever get into. BUT.... I am NOT stopping until I reach my healthy goal! It may or may not be the right size by then, but for 5 dollars to hang on my door to remind me what I want to look like and FEEL like...( a REAL woman! Not a marshmallow! ) it was SO worth it!

As I have said a few times... this change is not just physical! In fact, it MUST start with your mind. Because until your mind us ready to commit, your body will not cooperate. You will not stick to your plans. But once the mind is SET. NOTHING...and NO ONE can STOP YOU!

am I 100% comfortable in my skin? Of course not. But I am MILES more confident then I ever have been before. I have the MIND-SET of a HEALTHY FIT person...and so that is what I am becoming! It may take many  more months for that to completely come to the surface, but it is the truth! And you know what? People are starting to notice I am coming out of my shell. And it is a WONDERFUL feeling! 

I'm DONE with being a wallflower, and am on this journey to let my true sassy, confident self shine! God didn't make me to hide my light under a bushel! He created me to love and support people, to encourage them, and to actually ENJOY my life! He has plans and purposes He made just for me, that I am SO done letting fear, failure and fat steal!!!!!  ( just as He has for YOU! YES every single ONE of you! ...not matter WHERE you are at in your journeys.. you are SPECIAL and PRECIOUS! )

GRRRRRROOOWWWWWWWLLLLL says this Turbo Bear! LMAO!

Let's ROCK our lives my readers... GET UP and WORK it! Fat is only a shell. Don't hide behind it anymore! It won't happen overnight, but oh YES, it CAN and WILL happen if you are determined!

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!!!!!!!!

Measure your progress by the INCHES!...NOT just the SCALE!

My current progress? 55 pounds lost has equaled 38.25 inches OFF my body! Crazy!

I will be posting another you-tube video SOON showing this in a visual way, but have been having trouble with my goofy camera and computer ;) ...But for me, adding it all up this week, I was astounded! It made things SO much more tangible! When you start at the weight I did, sometimes it can be frustrating that the change does not seem nearly as dramatic as someone who *only* has 50 or 60 pounds to lose.... ( Though I am certainly NOT demeaning that struggle by any means! Be PROUD of ANY sustained weight loss!) However VISUALLY it's a totally different creature...so you need something else you can base your hard work upon...USE the measuring tape...and a scale with a bodyfat percentage to gauge how you're doing......you WILL be shocked and pleasantly surprised!!!
 
Stay encouraged, stay COMMITTED , and stay positive! You ARE changing yourself for the BETTER and should stand with head held high! Count every inch a victory my loverlies.... I certainly am, and know every thing I do daily keeps me going towards my goals of a FIT Turbo Bear!  :) 

~ Aimee :)

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

The battle to defeat your weight begins with the MIND!

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

* I'll NEVER lose this weight!!*... * how on earth could YOU, over 300 pounds EVER be able to work out and actually lose ENOUGH weight to be happy?*......* how will I ever defeat this " Battle of the Bulge "? Is it even POSSIBLE? Or am I hopeless??!?! *  * I'll be fat and unhappy my whole life!!* ...* I might as well just give up and enjoy this food *.....Have you ever said any of these things to yourself? I said some of these and similar statements to myself before my journey began and I felt help-less......

Thankfully, I no longer feel such desperation as a regular part of my mindset...(Though in honesty, especially when hitting a weight-loss plateau as I have been for at for a little while now, I have felt bits of that trying to come back into my thoughts! ).

The thing about it is... WEIGHT loss ( and for some on the opposite spectrum of Anorexia and Bulimia, weight GAIN...let us NOT forgot our fellow sisters ( and brothers too) who share with us many of the same emotions~different effect outwardly, but same poison inwardly.) this change...is NOT just a physical thing!!  Healthy lifestyle, includes your MIND, BODY AND SOUL!

One of my fellow coaches and I have talked about this a bit... she posted a wonderful post on her blog recently regarding her thoughts after watch Wynonna Judd on Oprah.. ( Please visit http://franceehaydel.blogspot.com/ for her amazing post! ) 

Honestly my loverlies, you should have NO shame, in seeing a counselor/therapist/ whatever you want to label it if it helps you tackle unhealthy mindsets that have been keeping you trapped and immobile! You should instead be PROUD of yourself for confronting whatever demons are lurking in your past! There are many reasons that people gain ( and in the case of the Anorexia and Bulimia, lose in an unhealthy manner) weight... One of the biggest causes of unhealthy Weight in my opinion (in most cases~though not all) is the outward manifestation of a hurting heart, mind and soul. We self medicate with food, which only leads to more depression and low feelings of self worth. It is a vicious cycle that only WE have the power to stop! But the WONDERFUL news... is that we CAN stop that cycle! This year has been proof positive of that in my own life, over 50 pounds lost doesn't lie!

I have FINALLY after 36 years of doing this to myself... gotten to the point that I can more often then not turn to something better for my overall well-being when I am stressed out or sad ! A HUGE triumph for me occurred a few weeks ago when I was TEMPTED to delve into some tasty but detrimental  treat when I was upset...and instead, I did my TurboJam...! Quite honestly... I felt about a million times better simply from that one healthy act. Exercise can feel like renewed life flowing through your veins! ...I'm not sure of all the Scientific terms, but I know it DOES release something good for body AND mind!

Truthfully, would that one treat have messed up all my months of progress? No. Of course not. BUT it could have led to OTHER times where I gave in and THAT would have been un-healthy.

For anyone struggling with this, please don't beat yourself up over it, and DON'T lose heart! You CAN DO this! FIGHT for yourself!! For your family ...for your LIFE and your DREAMS!!!! It takes a long time of un-covering whatever issues of the mind and heart led to an addiction to food... nothing changes over night! Take EVERY victory as a step forward into the new, healthy you....!

I still over-eat at times, and I still struggle...but more times then not, I am considering those dreams that slept dormant inside my soul yet still flickered with a hint of life worth it.  For me, those cherished dreams include someday getting married and having children. Being HEALTHY and comfortable enough with myself for those things and for all the rest of who God made me to be. To make them MORE important that a momentary pleasure of a tasty morsel on my tongue. There are so many aspects of life I long to taste INSTEAD that I never have...and THAT is now my priority! 

What, and who...are YOUR priorities? Make yourself a list if need be, and hang it on the Fridge. Whatever it takes to change your mindset so that your body can follow. Because you ARE worth it. You CAN do this. And eventually, as an added blessing, you will be able to inspire and help others out of that deep, dark chasm of an un-healthy relationship with food.

I am praying for you, and fighting for you all the way . Because I know where you are at. I've lived 95% of my life trapped inside my * flubber suit* ...and I'm still on that Journey! Let's show the world we are worth it, and stop hiding behind those walls of our own making!!!!! I believe in you!!!! Join with me as we defeat these mindsets and habits one step, uppercut, fire-throw and roundhouse ( or whatever works for YOU!) at a time!

in love and hope, 

~Aimee ( the TurboBear ;)  

Aimee the TurboBear is on Fire for TurboFire! :)

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

  

Chalene Johnson, you are totally a Godsend!!!! :) I have found my soul-mate workouts, and am never looking back! I loved TurboJam...but I am ADDICTED to and adore TURBOFIRE!!!!! WHAT a simply AMAZING workout...Wow. 

She encourages, she motivates...she keeps you in line and makes you laugh....You truly feel as though you are IN class with her. The music is edited and crafted so closely to the particular elements of the workouts that it keeps you going forward, and if you miss a step, can get back in fairly quickly because the music moves WITH the workout..not against it!

I can be sitting at my desk at work the next day, and hear a song from the workout in my head and WANT to get up and do the moves that go along with that part! We were at our Northland Fit Club a few weeks ago, and one of the girls asked about TurboFire... we had just done a workout DVD from P90X and were all zapped, but as soon as we put the TurboFire in, I literally had to FORCE myself to simmer down and not do the whole thing right then and there! ;) I couldn't help tapping my feet and moving to the beats... Even so tired from the P90X, it had that effect on me! 

Such a wonderful job is done to, throughout TurboFire to keep your knees safe, and Alee the modifier is always up on stage...That has been crucial for me, because of my knee and ankles, and even some of limitations from my weight.... The Burpees are too much for my knee right now, but Alee shows you how to still get a similar effect but keeps it safe! I also LOVE the HIIT workouts... and yes, I HAVE seen a spike on my BodyBugg as to calories burned at rest.... even WITH my knee/jumping limitations! There is also a great Core workout, and a few I havn't even gotten to yet, but I have NO DOUBT will be simply amazing!!! The music keeps you feeling like you are at a dance party, even while you are sweating gallons. LOL. I have seen a slimming in my mid-section, which is my biggest area by the way just since starting a few weeks ago... 

The energy is SO enthusiastic, as are all the people in class, but most especially Chalene herself... If one could bottle her energy, drive and enthusiasm it would be worth a gazillion dollars. ;) She definitely is key to her workouts being successful, motivating and fun!

I tried another workout DVD a few months back from a very popular  Trainer....whom I love on TV....let's just say she helps people lose big ;) . LOL. Well anyhow.. I was honestly VERY disappointed in the DVD... why? To start with, the *music* was dry as year old toast. LOL and most importantly, NO Modifier! I gave up on that one after just a few tries...... gave it away actually..and back to my Turbo! If she had added a modifier, perhaps it would still be in my workout rotation... a very small thing, but SO critical! That is one place many workouts, both in gyms, and in your living rooms fail so badly! Sure, you can try to come up with modifications on your own as I did in Kickboxing class a few years ago, but having the trainer create it for you is both safer AND more effective! 

That is also the OTHER reason I love all things Turbo! As to the afore-mentioned Kickboxing class. Did it work? Sure! I was the biggest loser of the group! But $ 400 dollars for TEN weeks...! 

And THEN what?! ? After that class ended... I was terrified! Would I gain back the 25 pounds I kicked my behind to lose? What could I do at home? Could I find a way to AFFORD another round? If I had known about Chalene Johnson's workouts then, I would have had my answer! Sadly, I did not, and proceeded to gain BACK the 25 pounds I worked so hard to lose. It was SO frustrating! 

I have been working out now with TurboJam and now TurboFIRE for more then the past YEAR. NEVER in my life have I been able to be this consistent with a workout! I am over 50 pounds lighter, and went from a size 26/28 to sometimes 20's now... NOTHING has ever been this effective for me!

It has every element I need! :

Flexibility of time. ( I tend to workout late, sometimes even @ Midnight! )!  I'm able to workout in the privacy of my living room, so even my terribly un-coordinated self doesn't feel like a total fool ;), no worries about what I look like AS I workout, my OWN bathroom and shower, and complete freedom! It's also portable! Bring it on vacation as long as you can access a DVD player! No Gym memberships, no parking issues, no trekking out when it gets cold into the snow ( and if you lived in MN like I do..that's a crazy chunk of the year! ;) 

No Gym membership could provide that. Even at $120 for the basic TurboFire set, you get a mountain of DVD's, including Fire, HIIT, Stretch ( and ohhh... the stretch is AWESOME! DON'T skip the Stretch 10  @ the very least..I did 2 times last week and my body was NOT happy! She made the Stretch on each DVD for a reason... TurboFire is intense!  ;)  TONS of great info including a nutrition guide, calendar, measuring tape, band, etc. etc..... What is that, maybe 2 or 3 months worth of gym membership fees? And THIS my loverlies, you have for LIFE. An amazing program! 

Honestly, for the amount you would pay for one YEAR of gym memberships, you could probably buy most of the Beachbody fitness catalog! ;) 

I'm never going back that route, no sir!  ( and no m'am! ;) At home fitness has been a God send for me. I am thinner, have more muscle and am happier about my health  then I've ever been... true, I am only 1/3 rd of the way to my ideal weight, but the point is, I WILL get there! The only thing that could stop me now is myself, and luckily THAT person has had an about-face of her former lazy attitude and is on a roll! Fire-throwing all the way!  ( an awesome ab-crunching move in TurboFire...LOVE it! ;) 

Please check out this AMAZING program at: http://beachbodycoach.com/embersfallen and join with me on this incredible journey into better health and fitness!  :) 

a bit about Aimee, and why I am here! :)

   *A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

Hi there!

My name is Aimee Lee Wynn, welcome to my page! So good to have you visit :)
A little about myself and why I am on this journey into better health below :

I am truly not your *typical* fitness junkie....but have become one the past year! :) I am SO excited to share with you how this wonderful, life-changing (and life saving!) change came to be! :)

I have been struggling with weight my entire life...and not just a BIT a weight... a whole extra PERSON of weight! I started out this Journey a bit over a year ago at 337 pounds! Kinda crazy I am sharing that horrid number here on the Internet for all to see, but I feel it is important for those visiting my blog here to know it. Thanks to finding my *soul-mate workouts* I am now down over FIFTY pounds, and have truly become ADDICTED to fitness! When I miss a day due to illness etc., I MISS the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual boost that it gives me! My day no longer feels complete without a great workout! I CRAVE that, instead of filling my mouth with foods that were only keeping me feeling trapped, depressed, and unable to see any possibility of the future I want for myself!

For anyone who grew up knowing me, they would tell you, that is a complete about face from the *old Aimee*. :) ! The current Aimee, and the woman I desire to be in the future is so happy the *old Aimee* finally got up off that coach, stopped making excuses to herself and got to work! Physical activity has never been easy for me. I have had a chronic sprained ankle since I was about 13 (I am 36 as of this writing), a knee that had a meniscus tear and has had surgery, and still has an ACL injury. On top of that, I injured my *good* ankle with a hairline fracture a few years ago with a klutzy trip down the stairs. * sigh*. ;) Both ankles are always wrapped up during exercise and modifications are often done due my ankles/knee and size. ( Beachbody is WONDERFUL with having a modifier present in their workouts! Such a crucial thing!)

Even WITH those limitations... this lifestyle change has become a permanent fixture of my life!!! My hope in becoming a fitness and wellness coach via Beachbody is to encourage everyone, but most especially those of you out there with weight and/or limitations that you might have felt would prevent you from pursuing health that you CAN do this! I am living proof!!!

I am SO very excited to be part of the simply AMAZING Team SOS. ( please see our Team blog @ http://fitcoachnetwork.blogspot.com/ )  .my fellow coaches and I are all here because we desire to see you succeed and find something you come to LOVE doing everyday that will help enrich and change your lives for the good! WE have found that elusive element that has helped us each personally, thus why we became coaches. Feel free to ask any of us about our individual journeys!

One final thought I would like to share: Fitness is not just about your body! It is a mental, emotional, and spiritually transforming act as well. It is combining all those elements of who you are, and fighting for the person you may have had hiding inside to bring that person to the surface. You all can do this!! Let's Fall In2 Fitness together and see how amazing we feel as time goes by!

A few little tidbits about my non-fitness related interests if you may be curious! :) I ADORE animals, my best friend/roomie and I have a few cats, and her beautiful golden retriever mix Rylee. I am ADDICTED to music, especially ethereal, intense sounds in the minor key ;) . I am a musician myself, trained to sing operatically, and also play a bit of guitar. I am in love with the art of photography, write poetry and am an artist as well. I may occasionally post related to those here as well. :)  The greatest blessings in my life, are my Lord Jesus, my friends and family, and being able to lift others up in prayer and encouragement. ( and on that note if that is something you ever would like, I am always willing to lift you up in prayer! Just feel free to jot me a note!:) .

Bless you each on your individual journeys, and SO good to have you here!!!! :)

You can also check out my Independant Team BeachBody Coach page @ http://beachbodycoach.com/embersfallen ! :)