Body Transformation Challenge

I just signed up for the Body Transformation Challenge in Fairfield, Iowa.  Fairfield is where I grew up and where all my siblings and folks still live.  I am here indefinitely, staying days with my sister who has Stage 4 cancer.  I talked about that a bit in the last post.

I think part of why I am so aware of my physical well being is because of my sister's health.  Also, because my best friend dating back to Junior High School, died of cancer a couple years ago.  It was when I flew to Houston to see her, when she was still doing well and still working, that I was introduced to the idea that what we eat really does make a difference to our health, particularly in regard to chronic diseases and cancer.  My friend had told me not to consume any dairy products that weren't organic, and to ensure my daughter did the same.  Her oncologist had told her that when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer 20 years earlier.  But now it was back - metastasized.  Breast cancer ran in my mother's side of the family.

I started making changes then.  I'd always been a runner, but now I started thinking and reading more about nutrition.

So, I've been contemplating going for a 50 miler and losing 20-30 pounds.

When a lady handed me a piece of paper containing information about the Jefferson County Park and Recreation Body Transformation Challenge, I felt it was fortuitous.  Why shy away from a public contest that would add the support (and pressure) of the group/the public to help me lose that weight, or some of it. I've been stuck at where I am for a couple of years now.

So if what you are doing isn't working, try something else.

So I signed up.

Weigh in is between Sept 2-6, with photographs.  Ugh.  :)  The contest is up right before Thanksgiving.  That is good timing too, don't you think?

So I am going for it.