I'm just sayin'......

I was going through some of the shows I have dvr'd over time......well over the last 3 weeks. How do I know it was 3 weeks? There were 25 Dr Oz shows waiting to be seen. The nice thing about dvr...if I don't like the topic I can delete it and not waste any time. While I was waiting for the laundry to be ready to hit the dryer I decided it was time to purge some recordings.

Now you might be thinking, what does this have to do with a healthy lifestyle? I did stop to watch some of the Dr Oz show where he had 'Colleen' on. She is the woman who is over 700 lbs. Her husband has done virtually everything for her for years. Dr Oz has given her nutritionists, trainers, psychologists.........everything she should need to start to be successful in her journey. Maybe the green monster is going to rear it's ugly head here but if I had all these people at my disposal 24/7 I would be embarrassed to come back to the show and admit in 5 months I had only lost 35 lbs. Colleen has all the right words. She is a smart girl. She swears she is committed to getting healthy. When I swore the same thing to my doc a few weeks ago and I recorded it on paper I found that my words did not mimic my actions. **GASP**

To scare her, Dr Oz brought her to an autopsy suite. She did not have to face a corpse but she had to face what killed this obese person. He showed her the fat that strangled the organs. He showed her what a liver looked like choked with fat. He showed her how an aorta can have a hole in it because the heart had to work so hard to push the blood through the body.....and all she could do was cry.

Dr Oz has Ruby (check out the style channel for her show) helping her but honestly Ruby has her own issues these days. She has gained weight back and now they are leading the audience down the road that there is a thought she may have been abused as a child and she is hiding in the fat. AREN'T WE ALL?? Are we not hiding in our fat? It protects us from unwanted attention, but in reality brings on different kinds of attention. Emotionally we can hide in the fat.......physically not so much.

I regress......in any case, Colleen is being sent away to some hospital or center in NC for at least a month and Dr Oz does not want to see her before she loses 100 lbs. He was honestly very upset with her......he felt he was only getting lip service from her. Her challenge was to live with her mom for a week. Mom has lost weight but does not exercise and still eats as she chooses. She had ice cream and pastry in the house.......and did not see it as a temptation to her daughter. HELLO?! Do you see your 700 lb daughter sitting next to you?

Anyway, after watching this episode (Dr Oz on 5/19) it did give me an education on the fat in my body. When I don't want to walk anymore to hit my goal of 10k steps per day I want to visualize the fat strangling me. I want to be healthy. I want to live. http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/colleens-toughest-challenge-yet-pt-3

I got my butt up at 4 am to get ready for my workout. I love my jazzercise class early in the morning. I got a good sweat going and feel energized for the day. My metabolism will be revved for a few hours before I take my lunchtime stroll. I can move, I can dance.......I live!! I have over 5,000 steps on my pedometer today......life is good!!