My Personal Bio:

January 2008 and I can not believe the first year is over. Shows that the time will pass whether you are amking healthy choices or not, so making the right choice each day does matter.
"What happened to you?" was the first question out of the mouth of a friend I had not seen in over 6 years. We were at a holiday luncheon and it was December 21, 2006. I was a bit taken aback, although I knew exactly what she was referring to. "You mean my weight? I gained it all back plus some." "Why" she asked. Good question!
After a moment I answered "To bring me to this exact point in my life where I can live my life's purpose." Million Dollar Body is what I have been waiting for to get healthy and fit the right way once and for all and maintain it. My belief is there is no accidents no life, no coincidences, nothing comes out of the "blue." Everything happens for a reason.
Based on my personal life experiences, all diets "work." I know because I have personally done most of them. Over my adult life, I estimate I have lost and found over 1000 pounds minimum. Ten months on a liquid fast resulted in a weight loss of 150 pounds, a body fat of 14 and a cholesterol level of 78 which they had to calculate by hand as the machine could not go that low. Nutrisystems gave me a loss of 60 pounds to surprise my husband with when the kids and I moved to Hawaii to join him there. Weight Watchers released 59 pounds, 45 pounds, 60 pounds and numerous 10 and 20 pound losses and I became a lifetime member more than 10 times.
The one thing all of these programs had in common is I gained all of the weight back every time. Sometimes, I kept it off for a couple of years, other times less than a few weeks. I have outfits which I outgrew before I could even take the tags off of them. Another common thread, is that for a short time, I ran daily, there was never any type of regular physical exercise included in my daily life.
As I begin this life transforming journey to create my own Million Dollar Body I invite you to join me. I know it will not be easy nor happen overnight. What I also know is if I don't change my lifestyle I may not be here on my next birthday and I have four great kids and a supportive husband for whom that would not be either fair or responsible. Do you know the feeling when you have chills run up and down your body, when you catch your breath with the knowledge that something is just right? That is how I feel about the opportunity I have to change my life starting now! Come along with me for the ride, let my experiences, past and current help you to also transform your life. Together we can always do more than we can alone. Let's go virtually hand in hand, day by day and take the steps to achieve lasting health and fitness!

Contact me directly at judi@in-homefitness.com, visit our site at http://www.in-homefitness.com and read my blog at http://www.in-homefitness.com/wordpress.

My Transformation Story:

The wonderful thing about transformation is that it can happen at any moment and the Universe provides confirming moments all the time if we are open to listen for them.
In January of 2007 when I was a $1000 winner in the Life Transformation Contest I was thrilled. Thrilled not because of any amazing changes which had taken place in my body; but because it quailed me for the $250,000 prize at the end of the year. I had just begun the program on December 27th, the day Million Dollar Body opened. It was not the four pounds I lost, but the fact I was the only entry in my age range which clinched the win.

Months passed and I worked out sporadically. Over the course of the year I released a total of 33 pounds. Ten of those pounds fluctuated up and down and when I left for the first ever MDB Convention I weighed 26 pounds less than when I started and a felt like a failure. Once again I was going to be attending a great company event, like the Founders Meeting and still be the most overweight person in the room. And like the Founders Event I really had to psych myself into going.
It was important to my life to be there. I had won the Top Coach Contest in December of 2007 and was being recognized for the achievement. And the reward was a trip to Maui and we were leaving directly from the convention. I had not submitted my name for the finals as I did not see myself as a good example of all Beach Body has to offer each of us.
The first whisper of the universe came to me Friday night at the awards celebration. My friend Earl was one of the finalists in the contest and I really wanted him to win. I knew he had personally focused on winning this contest every single day for over a year. He exemplified the spirit of Beachbody for me. When they called his name I started crying! Up on the stage I went to congratulate him and the first words he said after I hugged him were “next year this is you up here.” Nudge from the universe.

On the plane to Maui the movie was August Rush which had looked like my kind of movie in the trailers. I like “Twinkie” movies with great ending where I am crying with happiness. And I really like then more if they show totally improbable things happening and I’m sure that is why Pretty Women is my all time favorite. August Rush was about a young couple who meet (destiny), have a child, the baby’s father doesn’t know about him and the girl’s dad lies to her and tells her the baby is born dead.

The theme of the movie was how the music is all around us if we just listen and the tearful reunion of everyone at the end is because they listened for the music. August, the boy is a child prodigy in music and there is one line in the movie when a little girl asks him if he likes music. Everyone watching knows what his answer will be because music is his passion and he knows the key to finding his parents. My transformation moment occurred when he gave his three word answer and it was a good thing I had my seatbelt on. When asked if he loved music, he answered “MORE THAN FOOD.”

I was electrified in my seat and had my breath taken away. In that moment I realized how many of my dreams and hopes; not to mention my very life I was sacrificing every day for food. At the moment, I adopted August’s words as my personal motto. I love life and living “more than food.” We all have experienced these moments when we know the message was just for us. I knew I was meant to be on that plane at that moment, watching that movie. This was all orchestrated for me personally by that power which believes in us more than we do ourselves.
This morning was the first morning for all the Top coaches to work out on the lawn in front of the hotel and the whole world. Because I love my life more than food or more than my fear of being embarrassed I committed to doing workout. Going down, another top coach couple and I stepped into the elevator where there was already a family of a mom and dad and three children and a couple of other passengers. When the little boy who was about three or four looked at me and said out loud “she is really fat” you could have heard a pin drop.
While very embarrassed I actually felt worse for the mom and dad. The dad looked like he just wanted to evaporate and mumbled he was sorry and apologized again as we reached the ground floor and were exiting. Everyone was embarrassed and uncomfortable and no one was looking at me. What saved me from crying were two things. One I knew I was on my way to exercise in front of a crowd of super fit people and doing this for me was so important – more than food. And two, I recognized this as just another nudge from the universe, from my higher self to acknowledge I was on the right path.

With Earl’s completely unselfish words, a line in a movie and a small boy on an elevator, my transformation has really begun. Thank you Universe and Beachbody.

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