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Madison
Member Since April 2009
My Story
My story began about a year and a half ago. It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day ( Jan 21) of 2008 and I had the day off work. I was enjoying the cozy day inside while a snowstorm brewed outside. We had a horrible winter with more snow than ever recorded but Jan 21 was just the beginning of the constant snow we had. I got a surprising knock on my front door. My sons best friend was on the other side. My son and his wife were in a car accident and although his wife was ok, my son was being tranported by ambulance to the larger town we lived by because his injuries were more than the local hospital could handle. My son had stopped breathing 3 times and had brain injuries. He was in a coma and was on life support for weeks. He was in two different hospitals and a inpatient rehab center until Sept of last year. My son has many permanent problems because of the accident and will never be the person he was before that fateful trip on Jan of last year.
Now how does this story tie into why I am writing this at this time? After spending nearly a year worrying about my son and how 'normal' he was going to eventually be after all the rehab, I took stock of my life. After years of up and down weight I realized after what had happened to my son that I had been fooling myself into believing that I had all the time in the world to work on the weight and fitness aspect of my life. But what my sons accident taught me was that the "tomorrow" we all believe we have to get to work on ourselves may actually not be there. I started with the weight loss. My New Years Day started the new me. I worked on the weight loss for 4 months before I realized that I needed to start working out as well as diet. I had lost 24 pounds by the time I walked into the Curves near my job. Signing up was one of the best choices I have ever made in my life. In the two short months I have been with Curves I have lost another 22+ pounds making a total weight loss since January 1 of this year 47 pounds. My energy level has skyrocketed. I no longer feel like a 100 yr old woman. I have a long way to go yet. But after the past year, I know I am more focused than I have ever been and will not give up on myself ever ever again.
If you take nothing from this story but the following statement its all been worth it. Please don't take tomorrow for granted----you may not have it. Do the work and you will reap the rewards.
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