Welcome to my blog! People that personal know me may have come to this site because of the newsletter I write. For those who don't know me I need to give you a little history on how this blog got started.
Year 2012 - I was working a job where I rotate shifts every month and my off days fluctuate. ( I am currently still working that job) I was not in the best of health and I knew that something needed to change. All around me there were people going through all kinds of health problems. It got to a boiling point in December 2012; I was at the point where I needed to do SOMETHING, for myself as well as other people. So I started a healthy living newsletter; now just image a overweight person starting a healthy newsletter! [I will elaborate more on this topic in another post]. I shared this idea with my friend and we prayed about it; with hesitation I started the newsletter. In the beginning it was only for my co-workers but then it grew to other people outside of work who wanted to read it. The name of the newsletter was the "Healthy Living Newsletter". I was excited about the newsletter, I had my best friend to help me write some of the articles. It was to come out every month, with challenges, prizes, and etc...... Well by the end of the May issue I was so overwhelmed, frustrated, not accountable in my weight loss journey, and so many other emotions that I just stopped the newsletter.
I ended up taking the summer off from doing the newsletter, now this was without explaining anything to the readers about what was going on. By August I begin to regroup and remember why the newsletter was started in the first place. I knew I wanted to start the newsletter back up but I also knew there had to be some changes made. I started making plans for the newsletter and where I wanted it to go. One of the changes was to only publish the newsletter 4 times a year. I wrote a Fall edition newsletter which went out in October 2013, the newsletter apologize to my readers and explained that some changes were in store for the next year. It was basically the same format but a particular article I wrote was a little different from normal. When I started writing this article it was about the benefits of walking but the Holy Spirit led me in a different direction! The article was called "Succeed or Fail? It's All Up To My Attitude!". Since that newsletter I have felt God leading me in a different direction of what He wanted the newsletter to say.
So January 2014 started getting closer and closer, I still hadn't wrote the next newsletter. I had written the potential outline for the newsletter and what changes I plan to make, but I had not written any of the articles yet! In December 2013 God started giving me "nuggets" to write about. I noticed the more time I spent with Him the more He put on my heart what needed to be said. All of the topics He put on my heart were not just about food and exercise, but they are about living healthy inside and out! I started feeling a little frustrated again with the newsletter process when I took my concerns to God the word blog came to mind. Now I always knew I would start a blog eventually but I didn't know that it would possibly take the place of the newsletter. Part of the reasoning behind this was because when God puts something on my heart to share I need to share it and waiting 3 months to tell people was too long! So the Living Healthy Inside and Out blog was started! [I will write a later post with more details about the significance of the blog's name] I am hoping you continue with me on this journey. I know this is a change from the newsletter that was previously presented but it is what is needed. I am not without fault so please be forgiving when mistakes happen. I do not have weight loss success yet but I am working toward that goal. This blog will share what God has put on my heart as well as other things that will happen on my journey to living healthy inside & out.
Sharon
Additional Info:
You can follow this blog by e-mail so when new entries are posted you be notified.
I will be continually updating this blog in January so please be patient with me during this process.
Any questions or concerns you have can be e-mailed to healthylivinginsideout@gmail.com; I most likely will change this in the future but for now send all inquiries here.
Please feel free to comment on posts but if you are disrespectful or out of order you will be blocked from making comments on this blog.
Thanks again, Sharon
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