HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLORADO and 1st day of Live Well Colorado Get Movin CO

HAPPY 137th BIRTHDAY COLORADO!  You don't look a day over 100!  

What a state we live in, Yes over we the past 137 yrs our state has had its growing pains and some great achievements and some horrible things happen to us, Most recently Columbine Shootings in 1999, Aurora Movie Theater Shooting in 2012 all the Fires our state has endured the past few summers and the lives that were lost or effected by it all.   We, Coloradoans even me a Semi-native, have lived through so much.  Just imagine if all those people from the past  were alive to see all that has gone on....What stories we could hear.   I love this state.  I am a semi-native.   I was born in California but was basically raised in Colorado...this is home.  My family lives here and my children were born and raised...still raising here.   I wouldn't be any other place right now.

Today is also Live Well Colorado's start of Colorado's Get Movin Challenge for the Month of August.   This is a great movement...my daughter and I have signed up and we are Movin in our area, Buena Vista and the county is high with the obesity rate, but I know we can get this area so healthy.   I am so committed to getting healthy and fit, I start that and my weight will start to come off.   I am not wanting to race to get this weight off, I want to do it the most healthy and fit way to do it.   I am hoping I can be an inspiration for others to choose best way to live.  I know I have alot to over come on my journey and it will be a steady go at it.   To the days, weeks and months to come I will be facing alot fears, demons, joys, milestones  and just days...you know what I mean.    I am ready to face this journey and  will do whatever I need to do to over come and CONQUER!!

A friend of mine had a great pic on Facebook today, it is a New motto I am going to have to live by,

COURAGE

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FEAR

 

For those who don't know or to tired to figure it out....Courage over Fear!

 

I have heard so many of my weight loss buddies say that is the key....you have to have the courage to face everything that will come your way  good, bad and the ugly.   Today brought alot to reflect on, I think of all those who came to settle here in this Great State either by choice or by circumstance, they had to gather all the Courage they had to overcome the fears they faced everyday.   SO I am gathering from that strength of those before me and getting ready to face the Fear  that tries to stop me everyday.   I think with all the support we as a family will have from strangers and friends this month and the months to come I know we will be successful. 

 

My biggest fear Right now is to face the fact that I am 394lbs. Ok I faced the Fear of telling someone...now it is out there for everyone in the world to read and see.   I would love to be down, 230lbs....be about the weight I was when I graduated from High School that was 25 yrs ago.  Not hard to do, Just one step and pound at a time.  Honestly I feel better letting that out.  That took the courage to face that fear.  

 

I know the title wasn't really what  this blog ended up being about, you  know most of the blogs are just a "wing it" blogs.   I like these better sometimes.   I will get better with the topics as I go so Please be patient with me.  

 

So to all those in COLORADO right now, the Coloradoans that are in other states, to those Semi Natives  like me, do me a Favor....Sing Happy Birthday to CO and GET MOVIN'!

 

Face your Fears and Keep that Courage going on any journey you are doing right now.

 

" Take that One Step, One path, One Road, One Trail, One Valley, One Mountain to Climb to Get to the PEAK of You!"

Count Down Begins!

So the count down begins...In 1 day I am commited completly start changing, improving, caring, understanding, and LIVING my new life.  Many people know I am hving a hard time with my weight and trying to loose.  I have been reaching out to my friends to help me.  I have been reading people I have been following and are "friends" with on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for years. I still follow many of them and they are giving me the COURAGE to rally stay and stick with this journey this time.

I have signed up with the LIVE WELL COLORADO for their August Challenge.  I love the state I live in, there is always something to do, but there is still 21% of the states population that are obese.  In my county alone  we have a high obesity rate. In Chaffee County nearly 33 percent of adults are overweight and over 22 percent are obese.  Alot has to deal with proverty level, the lcost of eating healthy, and I honestly think people getting in a rutt like me.   I am a single mom as most of everyone knows and I have a hard time making ends met, let alone eat healthy....well that will change soon.   I am really ready for this...I want to knock off some of those things on my Bucket List and keep adding more.   I am Committing to stay the healthy side and start to loose this weight.  I have to start cheap...as in workouts...walking is about all I can do, but I am ready to do more.

Accoutability is the key.   I know what I need to do.  I know who I need to be accountable to and that would be me, myself and I.  

I am working on things slowly right now...the reason I have hurt my back and I am trying to becareful but on August 1st is the Challenge for Live Well Colorado and I am cutting out soda.  I am making the choice to change.

I am committing to get healthy and fit....doing that I will lose the weight.

WHO IS IN THIS WITH ME??



"One Step, One path, One Road, One Trail, One Valley, One Mountain to Climb to Get to the PEAK of You!"

What's on your Bucket list?....Just starting my list

So everyone around me has been talking about bucket lists and goals...of course everyone's ideas are different. I have started my list...Finally my kids tell me

Jenn's Ultimate List(Not in the order listed)
1.Live a long healthy life
2. Find my own soulmate (when it happens)
3.Climb a 14er by 45yo
4.Climb Mt. Princeton before 50yo
5. Help my family get healthy
6. Ride a bike again
7. Get to a health weight...not just thinner it healthy
8. Influence/Inspire/Assit others to get healthy
9. Met an inspiring person/persons
10. Be able to provide the kids an amazing life
11. Go Whitewater Rafting
12. Get into a Kayak
13. Get stronger...in mind,in body,in faith
14. Fly in Airplane Again
15. Go back to England
16. Take a cooking class with an amazing Chef.
17. Win The Lottery....I know got to play to win...HAHAHA
18. Go to An Amazing concert....oh so many
19. Keep up on my blog....haha
20. Find out something Amazing about myself all on my own....I know cheesy but it's true.
21. Learn to sing
22. Learn my clarinet again
23. Learn to Dance many dances and have the best time in my life.
24. Paddle board in the pacific ocean
25. Paddle board in the Alantic ocean
26. Run A Marathon....
27. Ride a 100 miles on a bike
28. Get a new bike
29. Wear a sexy pair of high heels
30. Find a sexy dress for those heels
31. Start to feel pretty,girly and sexy
32. Throw an amazing dinner party for friends and family
33. Go to Comic Con in San Diego at least once
34. Visit the places my ancestors lived all over the US....and overseas
35. Have an amazing Girl's Trip with all the girls in my family....wonder where we should go
36. Ultimate Family Vacations
37. Learn to do some Amazing Photography..don't have an artistic bone in my body
38. Learn to make sushi...Yummmmmmmmm
39. Enjoy a quiet time once a year just for me no children allowed
40. Walk the best 5K, 10K  ever
41. Start running when I can
42. Run the best 5K,10K ever
43. Enjoy My Life at that moment
44. Go to Australia
45. Get over my fear of heights...Jump off something very high....some where very beautiful
46.  Keep Expanding My Bucket List!

So this is the start of my list somethings may be confusing to you,but they are in my heart. I have wasted so much time in my life not doing anything. I am so ready to live in the moment and not in the past.

Slowly but surely I will cross off on my list and enjoy the life.  I will have the best time of my life

Who is with me?

Facing Fears..Stepping out of Comfort Zone

I know this is been the first post in many many months. After talking to a couple of amazing women about conquering fears and just getting myself out there....I have really made a commitment to get out there. Not only putting myself out there in this blog but also to get out there and start something for myself and others in this community.

 Fear of...
1. Letting myself be "seen"
2. Opening up to others and really letting them in
3. Thinking others really don't like me
4. Allowing myself to be vulnerable when I need to be
5. Showing that I am weak
6. Not being really accepted by friends and family
7. Allowing myself to be loved by someone who does love me truly
8. Not being the parent I need to be to my children
9. Not being the child/sibling to my family that I should be
10. NOT ALLOWING MYSELF TO BE ME



These are the top fears I have some people think I am silly about some of these....But I am very serious. This is the first step in getting out of my comfort zone and facing the fears. I will try to go back to writing everyday or a couple of times a week....I will allow myself to be out there and accept any comments Good and Bad because they only are there to help me.

LOVE YOU ALL!!





"One Step, One path, One Road, One Trail, One Valley, One Mountain to Climb to Get to the PEAK of You!"