Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Join me....NO JOB....Its Amazing to give back!

 Is there something that your JOB not not give you in return? Is there something you just crave and they never give it? For me it was respect, I never ever received respect in the medical field once. They alway looked down on my sensitivity and never recognized that I really cared about people, the patients, their care. That is why I left. Not one Hair job has shown me that they cared about my work or that I was even there. They worked me to the bone, didnt want me taking time off, to this day my good friend as of current is on a 15 day straight work shift. NO days off. Its always about the money and what you can make for them. They dont even care about the people its sad. For once in 45 years I just wanted someone to say what a Great job I was doing and thank me for working that extra hour cause Suzy had to go home. With Beachbody, we are always patting each others backs, always saying good job keep up the good work. Always reaching out to someone if they call down. This is the DREAM Company I have looked for. They send Thank You notes, they send Roses, They send Certificates of Gratitute on the Great Job you did. We all become Family and that means so much to me. I am a sensative person and I love people. I want to help people I want to make their lives better. The notes I get in my in box that say I am watching you good job, you are such an inspiration keep up the good work. I got a letter in the mail from a family friend this week that said I enjoy watching your success I am proud of you keep up the good work enclosed was a check. I can say I LOVE What I do here, I love who I work with daily. I love the people I am meeting. This is me this is who I am and this was why I was lead to this Great company for I was meant to be here. I was meant to succeed excel and be a part of such a wonderful group of people who really care about others and bettering there life. I love that I am losing weight and the way I feel, I hate the plateaus and like I said before I am not going to sugar coat anything losing weight is NOT easy but we need to do this as a whole. In America we are so overweight and MORBIDLY OBESE. My doctor told me that and I was like that is not nice words. That really made me look at who I was and where I was heading. If you want to be a part of an amazing organization if you have not felt in life that you are where you want to be or just if you need an extra income and you have a passion for people give this a try. This was the best thing I have ever done for myself and my family. I wish I would of found this years ago. I am helping motivate the people I love and that I truely care about. A friend said to me today how much it meant to her that I truely care about her success in health. I said that is why I got into this business. If my sweat inspires you, so be it I will show you it can be done and it can be maintained. Love your Life Love who you are. God has a plan for you LIVE IT. Message me I can call you, I am not fake and I dont lie. This is me and this is how I feel. I wear my heart on my sleeve, take a chance what have you got to lose? Weight?


Life is What We Make it....

As I can see Life is a Journey and as we make it. I set my Goals High and worked for what I believed in and I went Emerald Status as a Beachbody Coach last night. It brought tears to my eyes for it was what I had planned for myself and I DID IT. I took Chalene Johnson's PUSH Challenge and am learning how to Organize and Focus on my future goals and success. I am a few days behind from starting my new job but I will get caught up and keep PUSHing forward along with PUSHing Play. I still have 70 lbs to lose, I am not giving up or losing hope for I am on my second plateau and though frustrating and maddening I keep moving forward knowing I to can conquer this. Weight loss is a hard path and journey but my heart and well being is so worth the trip. I need to be healthy for me first and formost but for my family. Plus I have learned I have a passion for this I have a passion and fire inside me that burns to be healthy. And in the journey I can help and inspire others to do the same. Never felt a position that had so much rewarding and fulfilling feelings in one thing. I have had a lot of jobs for those that know me and I never felt passion or commitment to what I touched until I became a BeachBody Coach. This fills me heart and soul. Cant wait to see what the rest of 2013 holds for me and my Team. Next stop Ruby and to make it to Summit in June or July. So much to look forward to. Along with more tears of joy I am sure. My path of success gets longer and people I love and care about join me in my Journey. Keep moving forward keep pushing play. No matter your weight or your place in life YOU to can do this. Take care of you make a plan and COMMIT to it. I dont care if you are 200 lbs, 400 lbs, 170 lbs. You can get healthier inside and out and who is better for that kind of reward then you. Do you want meds and doctors in your future? You are in control of this vesil you call LIFE and you can make it what ever your heart desires. Have Faith, Believe and reach out. We are here to HELP any and all of you. We are learning on this path to but we continue to learn and we use each other for support, information and what ever we need. Thats why we out the T in Team!!!  Faith Belief and YOU is all it takes. You got this in the bag, wont be easy but YOU my friend are worth every bead of sweat that you will lose in this battle. Take care of you, I got your back. 
Success.... Is the plan... Put into Action.

Judie <3 www.infinite-living.com

Monday, January 21, 2013

Reflection

Reflection....... When I look back to WHY I started my Fitness Journey its full of Why's.

I started for I was tired of being FAT, I was tired of WHO I saw in the Mirror, I was tired of telling my adults kids that I CANNOT do your 3K, 5K what ever events they wanted me to do with them. Our Granddaughter came into our lives and I knew I wanted to keep up with her. I wanted to do the fun things that currently if I didn't start taking care of ME I was going to be the sit on the couch Grandma and be no fun. I was tired of taking my High Blood Pressure meds. I was working in the Health Care Industry currently in Cardiology seeing these people of all ages come in with these BAGS of medications to which was probably keeping them alive. I was tired of being tired and telling my family and husband that I was just to tired.

I was tired of looking at pictures of myself saying WOW you are a large woman, thinking at times I was kinda cute with the face shots but then you got the FULL figure woman in the picture and WOW. I was currently a size 18 and heading heavily on my way to a 20. Not liking that thought at all I thought to myself. There is NO WAY in hell I am buying a size 20 pants and creeping to a 2XL shirt size, I was finished. Up late one night watching infomercials my husband purchased me P90X. Then as I would surf though Pinterest and see weight loss stories saving each one for it inspired me. Then I came across Shannon McArthur he story caught my eye. I searched her out and asked her HOW she did this. We began talking and talking and talking LOL We talk almost every day now. I became a beachbody coach for the discount of my Shakeology. I got my first bag, thought this better be good for the cost is crazy to much. So I took my first 30 days of Shakeoloy and at the end I sent back my empty bag and decided it was not for me that it was way to expensive for me to afford. After it was gone I really missed it and realized that when I was taking it I felt better, healthy, my inflammation was gone and I didn't have constipation issues. So I did some research online and dug into it to see why it cost so much and thought I bet I could get this at GNC or someplace local not as spendy. So I printed off the Ingredients offline and went to GNC and a local place to see if I could replace the healthy benefits of Shakeology cheaper. Well you definitely get what you pay for. They were like WOW not sure if I can but lets see what we can do, well a box of this and a bag of that and oh a little of this here you go that should be close she stated. Well that was $120 and like 5 different things to mix together. In addition to all the additives and crap they had that I was not getting with my WHOLE FOOD Shakeology. So then I went to the other place and he said well now lets see. With this and that and a little of this and wow I cant really get you that without this. Again preservatives and crap I was trying to keep OUT of my body again. So for the $120 for Shakeology minus the crap equals $4 a day and I came to the conclusion I would just add this to my budget. Then I learned I could get it for $85 if I signed to be a Coach. Well along the way I met so many Amazing people with amazing stories and with so much Passion for what they did the passion to built in myself.

I have had many jobs as most of you know if you know me. I got into the Medical Field for I do have passion in me. I love people I love helping people and I would do almost anything for anyone. I want to better lives, I want to make a difference and I just could not find that in the Medical field. It was stress, drama and bullshit to tell you the truth and it was not what I had pictured. So getting back to the Beachbody Family I have to did many of the MLM Businesses as you that know me know. But this was different, it was not about you do this to make me money, You have to sell this much this month or be inactive.  You have to do this or that or call after call and email after email pushing me to SELL SELL SELL (MaryKay) to let you drive the Pink car. NO this was different, it was truly about helping me helping others fight the Obesity Trend. People I have never met, people who I didn't even know reaching out to me to help me be successful in my weight loss, my health, my better quality of life. Then I to as I started losing weight  and people started following me asking me how I was doing it how could they to be successful. The passion starting building in me that I could make a difference. That I could show people that the IMPOSSIBLE was POSSIBLE. What held me back was laziness, I didn't want to do the work. Well take the IM out of POSSIBLE and know that YOU to are worth the Journey.

Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE, as I say and has become my saying " If YOU can Dream it, YOU can Live it!!"  What is your "WHY" whats holding you back? Do you have a Husband, Wife, Children? Don't they deserve a Better you, a better chance at life. Full memories that are worth keeping in that memory bank? There is so much LIFE to LIVE and if you DO NOT do it. What was it worth? Get up off the couch, walk a little every day. Go to the Grocery store and stay OUT of the inner isles. I to an help you, just ask me. I feel so much better, I look better, no more meds for me. I have met people that have got OFF their diabetic meds, high blood pressure, migraine  sleep issues, cholesterol  digestive issues. A guy that had to weigh himself at his local scrap yard for he was over 400 lbs and his scale would not weigh him at home. I have seen success story after success story.

NO losing weight is not easy, at times it sucks hard. I pleated for four months at the same weight as I worked my ASS off and just wanted the scale to move. Then it moved pound by pound, the inches are coming off inch by inch. Its not fast its a process. Those FAD diets that you lose weight FAST BAM and you look HOT for a minute. That weight will come back cause you did it the wrong way, those fast do it now take a pill and be bikini ready diets are a HOAX you have to work for it if its worth the trip. Its a Lifestyle Change and its forever, not just a month or so. Its FOREVER and YOU my friend as I are worth every tear cried every cus word said during workout. But it is OBTAINABLE I PROMISE. 

Join me now and we can do this together instead of waiting til I am done and said I could of been there to. I love you and we are a TEAM I can help you to a better you. If I can do this YOU can do this to. Its Hard at times but I wouldn't change it for nothing. 

The people I have met and continue to meet are AMAZING with LIFE and Heart. I Love my Life more right now then I have in a Long Long time. Thank you for reading, Don't be afraid to reach out. I reached out to a total stranger now she is one of my Best-est Friends.


Thursday, January 17, 2013

You Think I am Different, But I am just like You!!


Judie Phillips Lavender
You think I am so different then you. But yet I am the same. I sat for years not feeling I had this in me, I WANT to be healthier/skinnier but I want it to come to me. I dont have the time or the efforts for this. I was 243 lbs size 18 heading toward a serious 20 if I didn't wake up. Was I going to be there for my kids my grand kids? NOPE if we don't take care of our health that is a breeding ground for disease cancer, medications. Working in a Cardio clinic I see all these heavy people coming in with Heart issues young and old. I would find myself thinking if they only took care of them selves. Its a choice, we choose to eat all that processed food, going out to eat, stopping by McD cause its easy. Do you know what your eating? There is Cancer cells in all of our bodies they are there always, they can stay at bay or if you build the breeding ground for them it could really turn into a bad thing. Do you want to see your kids get married graduate from college have children of there own? Life is what we make it people you are making the choice of your body style. If you have a disease it may be curable. Doctors tell us all the time that we will never do this or that again. That we are doomed, They are doctors practicing medicine know that. I have known cancer to be cured, hepatitis B to be cured, medications that were told you would take for the rest of your life to be gotten rid of. I made the choice to take care of this vessel they call LIFE. You are important to someone, You should be important to you. Do you like putting on that size 36, 42, 30, 25, XXXL, 5x what ever size your wearing??? I dont know about you but I drew the line at size 18 and I was NOT going to go higher I didnt care what it took. But then I kept seeing photographs that the kids took, I would say god I am FAT, I look horrible, I cant do this anymore. The kids would always say Mom do this 5K with us, Do this 3K, Mud Run, all these events and I would say NO I cant do that I am to FAT. Last year I didn't pay I signed as a volunteer at the HAG Games with MY FAMILY. I ended up doing some events with the extra tickets they had OMG it was fun, I was panting and dying but I signed up last year for this years event and I am going to do this. I had so much fun and knew I could be better if I got fit. I am just like you, it sucks I dont always WANT to workout. But I want a Better Life I want my Kids to be Proud of me. I love my family and I want to grow old with them. Dont YOU?? Join me, you wont be disappointed, I am just like YOU and We can do this Together, its called TEAM Work and most of all I LOVE YOU and you are my Friend ♥