Before the start...

I am a planner, intentional, purposeful and a thinker. I discuss openly my weaknesses and my plan for change. As I approach my 54th birthday I am facing it head on that one of life's greatest challenges is changing human behavior. I remember my mother saying, "I am starting a new regime". Well I have said that many times and I am in fact saying it again, "I am starting a new regime". Hopefully this time I am a bit more alerted to the difficulty of making regime a way of life, a behavioral pattern.

I woke up joyful this morning, in love with my husband, loving my family, happy to share the life with my father in love Bill and my mother in love Joy, so grateful that I share this life in relationship with my heavenly Father, Jesus and my greatest friend, Holy Spirit (HS).

Now it is a season to again learn how to take care of me in the middle of all this life. So next week I am following a path of many of my friends to Blue Sky. Blue Sky is a group medical practice that will assist me with a healthy lifestyle of eating custom fit for my specific health challenges. Namely, Osteoporosis. Why follow my friends you might ask? Well, because I have learned to judge a thing by its fruit and these folks are really getting healthy all the while navigating difficulties and hardships in their lives similar to my own. Let's face it if you have lived long enough you know that challenges are not ever going to go away. The great challenge is how to navigate!

So here goes, 2 1/2 years ago I weighed 130 lbs. and walked approx. 21/2 miles 5 times a week. Today I weigh 172 lbs. and can hardly walk a mile without intense hip pain. I have had chest pain, stress related and just went through the mammogram with an issue and am given the OK. So osteoporosis is not a pretty picture of the future so what to do?

OK so I am paying attention. I cannot keep this pace and lack of care for myself up and expect to walk this season of life out in health. So, Blue skies here I come. "I am starting a new regime".
Living fit and trusting God!!!

I hope you will track with me on this blog, be an encourager to me and perhaps some good things in this can become part of your journey too.
I will blog weekly and report how it is going and what changes I experience. I am sending out a special thanks to my dear friend Cintia Listenbee who has mentored me through her friendship and her blog on consistency, intentionality, transparency, accountability, social media and so much more.


11/3/13 Sunday
Spiritual condition: Loving and trusting God
Mental Condition: Encouraged and planning ahead
Bodily condition: Achy, tired and overweight by 40 lbs.

"Trust in the Lord your God with all your heart, acknowledge Him in all your ways, lean not on your own understanding and He will direct your path" Proverbs 3:5-6