18th February 2018
Dream with all your mind, believe with all your heart,
achieve with all your strength.
DREAM – BELIEVE – ACHIEVE were the words of the day
yesterday from one of the most caring, lovely ladies I have the pleasure to
know. The members at my Saturday morning
meeting care so much about each other, there was such a lot of love and support
in our meeting yesterday as we celebrated Karen’s 10 stone award whilst not
forgetting nor ignoring those still having their struggles. As Karen said, we really are lucky to have
each other, even my members who haven’t met in person, only through our
Facebook group all have a connection, a bond that holds together my Happy Owls,
yes I will call them mine because I want to take pride in them, I won’t take
the credit for them all but I play my part.
In case you missed it, Karen achieved her 10 stone award
yesterday, quite the achievement that, but it isn’t the numbers on their own
that are significant it’s the journey she’s had getting there. The embarrassment she personally felt before
returning to my meetings, even though she knew I would never judge her, it was
her feelings that stopped her. The diabetes
diagnosis that became the thing that saved her life, FEAR can be a powerful
motivator. It’s all the times she’s said
no to eating or drinking something or made a healthier choice because she had
decided she wanted to lose weight and get healthy. But it’s also the fact she’s still allowed
herself to enjoy life and good times that still include good food and good
wine.
Karen gave us all in the meeting a little heart that had the
words – DREAM – BELIEVE – ACHIEVE engraved on them, and she told us that first
of all you have to dream but that dream needs to followed by a belief in
yourself that you can actually do it, then finally you will achieve your
goals. We chatted later and looked back
at the years that had bought us to this place, she joked about how funny it
would be if she could go back 8 years to that other version of Karen and tell
her that we’d be having this conversation in 2018, I asked what would she say
if she could go back in time and have a conversation with herself back
then. Karen told me she would tell
herself, you believe in a God that you can’t see, so start believing in
yourself, you can achieve you goals. We
then started to talk about her next goal, because it doesn’t stop at 10 stone,
her journey doesn’t end there, it won’t end when she reaches her goal, taking
care of yourself is a forever thing.
I can’t begin to describe the pride I feel for this lady, Karen
has turned her world around, she’s even doing coach to 5k now, and to give back
she’s signed up to take part in a 5k Resolution run to raise month for the
Stroke Association, she’s already got the fund raising up and running, the
totals already over £100 which is awesome but how good would it be if we could
get it to £140 after you’ve all read my
blog, all you need to do is go online to https://www.justgiving.com/Karen-Green33
and donate or even easier send a text to 70070 with OWLS61 £1 or any amount you want to make that of course. How absolutely incredible would it be if by
the time she runs the 5k on the 22nd April, that target is smashed
and £1,400 is hit, that would be a tenner for every pound she’s lost so
far! Yeah let’s make that happen, I know
my members and all our WW family out there are more than capable of making that
happen.
#dreambelieveachieve
#bevsww #theflexeffect
#wwfamily
My day after this amazing start was nice and calm, just the
way I like it, I plan to have similar today, but this blog is all about Karen because
she’s inspirational but it’s also for all those out there thinking they just
can’t do it. Trust me you can, I tried
every resource I had to help Karen all those years ago, I even tried stuff I
didn’t know before and went looking for, I couldn’t break through, she wasn’t
ready but look at her now and that my BeYOUtiful could be you next, you just
need to DREAM – BELIEVE – ACHIEVE.
You can do this, your future self will thank you for
believing and starting.
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