If you are reading this blog, from the bottom of my heart, thank you!!
I have been thinking about starting a blog for a very long time, I just didn't know where to start. In reading other peoples blogs (and there are some very good ones) I decided to do what is important to me... Just to be clear this is not a blog for people looking to be "skinny" it is a blog for people looking to create their ideal life and "real" ize their potential. HEALTH in all areas of life.
Let's talk about why I chose the name I did. The Skinny Chic. Although, currently at 5'3'' and 100 lbs I have never thought of myself as a "skinny" girl. I have struggled with my weight (mostly too skinny) my whole life. Then I had kids, 2 girls that look up to me in every way. So like most new parents I wanted to be a good example to my children. So I did what everyone does, I had to take a good hard look at myself. I took a look in the mirror and hated what I saw! I was society's "ideal". Money, skinny, pretty, nice car (the list goes on). Right? So what did "it all" matter? Maybe "it all" looked great on the outside, but on the inside I was a complete disaster! The realization that I really didn't have "it all", and the fear of losing "it all" almost totally flattened me! It may have been different if I really was healthy in all aspects of my life but the reality was I was a complete fake and I was totally miserable.
The truth is not on the outside but on the inside. (touché)
Stick with me on this...
So many people are fake, but in all areas. We all know these people. People who drive cars they can't afford. People who are nice to everyone, but behind closed doors treat their family like crap. People who look to be successful business people all the while stealing peoples hard earned money.They have I have talked to many who put a smile on their faces knowing that smile is so fake. I was one of them. My weight was fake too. I was starving, it made me moody, depressed and frustrated. I thought if I was "in shape" and looked beautiful to the outside world that is what everyone would think of me. The truth of the matter was is that people could see the facade I put on, I just didn't know it.
So even though I was small, at my lowest I was 86lbs. A BMI of 15.2. I was totally unhealthy. (duh) I started gaining but it just made me more miserable. I felt like I was moving away from how I "should be". I couldn't fix this issue yet. I had to get right in my head first! I moved away from the negative relationships in my life and started to really compose my life the way I wanted it.
Then I went to the doctor and even though I was thin, I had high cholesterol, high blood pressure, ulcers, and fatigue all the time. Totally, ideal right? I wanted to laugh then cry! I found a program, actually marketed as a weight loss program, which helped me put on some weight while giving me the vitamins, protein I needed to create the healthy body I wanted and needed.
Getting the right diet was not the only thing I needed to do in order to create my ideal life. I needed to create it financially, mentally as well as physically!
Now comes to my financial part of my journey. I had to figure out what I was passionate about so that I could be happy with what I chose to do as a career. I went to school to become a nurse. I hated it! My parents used to say the only way to be successful in life is to have a college degree. I say BOO! 80 percent of the highest paid entrepranuers never got their degree. Plus getting a degree streamlines you into a job that is 40 + hours per week and doesn't allow you the potential to make more than the salary outline they think you are worth!! Um no thanks! I chose to do something that I love which is teach people a way that shows them what they are worth and what they can do to create the life they want.
That being said there is no way to be successful until you figure out ( back track to elementary) your who, what, where and why, in life is. Who do I want to be? What can I do to change my current situation and make my life better? Where do I want to go? Why do I want these things?
So identify these questions and until they are clearly defined and have power behind them you will not get to where you want to be. Your Ideal Life! Your Skinny Chic!
So stay tuned for advice, stories and real life people to help make you be good, do good, look good and feel good!
XOXO
~Ari
Be Good, Do Good, Look Good, Feel Good
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