So Thankful - November 30

I've written on this blog before about Game On! and the changes that it has helped me to make in my life over the last year.  I started it with the thought that I would be supporting a friend and I'm ending this year committed to continuing to take part for as long as I can.  I've made great friends with women (and a few men) who are living all over the country...and all over the world.  I was lucky enough to meet up with a few of them for coffee not too long ago and it was amazing to me how close I feel to these women though I had never met some of them face to face.  We are all in this journey together supporting each other, suggesting ways to get through the day, teasing a bit and sending 'good vibes'.  Though we live miles apart, we exercise together, chug water together, eat together and make healthy decisions together every day.  

THIS - is from an email that I sent a friend earlier this week:  This past year I went on a mission to get "healthy".  And that is truly why I did what I did.  I looked at my life - and my beautiful daughters - and the fact that I truly wanted to be able to keep up with them.  I wanted to be healthy for them.  I wanted to be able to hop up off the floor and run after them - to be able to dance with them - to be someone they could look up to and feel good about looking upon - someone who could teach them to live a healthy life.  I really didn't care too horribly much about what I looked like - I just wanted to feel good, wanted to have energy, wanted to be a healthier version of myself.  And, I'll be damned...it worked!  By mid-summer, I was feeling amazing!  I looked FANTASTIC and felt even better!  I was winning "Game On" every round and was inspiring other people around me to get healthy - and even already inspiring my daughters to want to eat healthier and to get their exercise.  

Game On! truly helped me to become a healthier version of myself and a better role model for my children.   A happy side effect is that I lost weight and look pretty great.  

Game On! certainly didn't do this FOR me.  I put in a lot of hard work over the last year but the competition and the people taking part in the competition absolutely helped me to get where I am right now.  For that?  I am very thankful!