The Red Bikini Lady....

Body for Life Champion and Liftime Achievement Award Winner, Michelle Lee. "page-a-day" memoir of the steps I took during a journey to my first Body Building and Figure Competition and beyond. (c)2008 all rights reserved by blog author

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I'm at an age when many women believe their best years are behind them. I hope to convince my "Sisters" that many more of those "best years" are waiting to be lived! I'm living proof it is never to late to live them. Not to long ago I weighed nearly 200 pounds and was being treated for a long list of obesity related medical problems. Thankfully there came a point in my life when I decided to keep my self promises. When I did...my life opened to a world of possibilities.

Friday, January 14, 2005

As with friendships.......

Habits can bo both good and bad. You can make them or break them...you can benefit from them or be destroyed by them.

Several years ago---a friend kindly told me that I needed to break some bad habits and forge new healthy ones...or I would self destruct.
She told me I needed to start exercising.
I needed to start packing healthy lunches...I needed to start meditating and healing my body.
At that point I was not ready. I had a long list of excuses.

With a full time job, a family and a lot of responsibilities...I didn't
have time, I didn't have energy, I didn't know how.....
I told her and myself--"sure other people could turn their lives around, but I was a
failure in that department."

It took me nearly ten years to follow her advice but I finally did take it to heart.

Today I am forging new relationships with good habits. It's taken awhile to put them into practice. How did I do that? I started with tiny baby steps. Soon I was taking giant ones and before I knew it I had made good habits my friends. I visit them every day and they have become as comfortable as an old pair of shoes.

I never start the day without my exercises--nor do I go a day without planning meals and following thru on that plan. Is it hard work. It used to be. Now--it's become habit.

Make good habits your good friends. Soon there will be no room in your life for those bad habits. Send them packing.

Find a program that works and work that program.

(C)2005 michelle d. lee

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