's motd Friday March 12, 2010

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I AM...YOU!

Friday, 12 March 2010

As a kid, I never thought I'd end up being a leader in the field of aerobics. And never did I think I'd be motivating anyone to get healthy and lose weight. Who...ME? Hey, I didn't eat healthy or motivate myself, for even an hour! And no, I never thought I'd be traveling all over the country, like the "ny Appleseed" of good health. Well, guess what? As you know, that's exactly what I ended up doing. But...I had to get my own life straightened out first.

I've never made it a big secret. See, I'm a food addict and I always will be. I've just been able to handle my eating disorders and not allow them to take over my life, as they once did.And oh, I had lots of fights with myself trying to stay on that healthy track. I'm telling you, there were times I wanted to resort to my old bad habits of bingeing, purging and taking laxatives to control my weight. But whenever those dangerous temptations came my way, I'd say to myself..."NO! Not this time!"On the days when I didn't "feel like" exercising, I'd literally pluck myself out of the chair or the bed and start doing my leg-lifts. And on those days when I wanted a Coca-Cola, I'd drink an ice-cold glass of water instead and pretend it was a Coke!

And after I did all of that for myself, I decided to spread my message. I started out small, in my little exercise studio here in Los Angeles, Slimmons. And my mission grew from there. I began traveling all over the country and spreading the healthy word.I told everyone I came in contact with and who'd listen that they had to love themselves. I told them that they had to properly portion their foods and do their workouts faithfully.

During the course of my career, there've been lots of fad diets that have come and gone. Oh, there've been the shots, the pills and the diet shakes. There were lots of false promises made by companies and lots of money unwisely spent.Meanwhile, I just kept banging that drum of my tried-and-true weight-loss philosophy. And all of these years later, I keep on going and going, just like the Energizer bunny. So you see, I am you. I am that overeater. I am that person who's lost and gained weight...lots of times. I am that person who beat myself up and put myself down about my weight. So, I can honestly say, when I see you...I see my own head on top of your shoulders.

Yes, I know what you're going through. Because in many ways, I'm still going through the same things with you. And that's why I do what I do. My work has become my passion...my crusade. It's part of my mission, to win you over and to make you believe what I believe. I want you to taste the success I have tasted. Oh yes, even through the craziness and silliness I've become known for, don't get me wrong, I am very serious about what I do. And I want you to be serious, too. I want you to stay on program and lose that excess weight, once and for all.

I wonder, do you love your career as much as I love mine?Love,