I know you all get my teasers for my other books on here, but I wanted to share with you all FIRST a new book that I have been writing called The
Impossible Life. It's not due out until September, so I will be posting excerpts of it on here before anywhere else.
This is a personal journey and one that I hope you will have the opportunity to get to know me just a little better. I hope to inspire and motivate, so please feel free to leave comments.
#Teaser #SelfHelp #Motivation #Excerpt
The Impossible Life
By Kahla Kiker
**unedited***
I knew I finally wanted to see what I was capable of; I wanted
to feel sexy, beautiful, but most of all, comfortable in my own body again. Day
1 of my journey lasted about two weeks. I spent the time researching nutrition,
finding the right supplements and designing a workout plan that I thought might
work for me. In those 2 weeks, I took my supplements and kind of ate a little
better, but I didn’t workout properly – not once. I figured if I was Google-ing
how to workout and eat right that it was the same thing. I knew better, but I also
knew that it was a least a step in the right direction if after two weeks I was
still thinking of how to accomplish
my goal. By the time my official first day arrived, it went something like
this:
I played with my new 8fit app that gives me quick workouts
and menu plans to help my progress and I finally got so excited and motivated
that I programmed it to set my workout alarm at 12noon. I ate oatmeal that
morning for breakfast after I had decided to go mostly ‘Paleo’ – oatmeal is not on that diet by the way.
Then I had my 10am snack – a shake. Which was great, but then I decided that I would
do better on a daily basis if I had actual food variety as snacks too. But then
I questioned myself how do I carry that many containers to work and around with
me? Which brought me to the conclusion that I needed the food bag in the Total
Nutrition store that my husband bought the supplements for me from, because it
has storage and containers to carry 4 drinks and 4 compartments for snacks and
meals. I was so excited just thinking about organizing and packing my entire
day’s menu in there every night. It was something I felt was necessary to keep
someone with my schedule on track! I also still needed to sign up at the gym
that was closest to my house because my memberships at the other two gyms didn’t
count since they were too inconvenient to drive to during my lunch hour – which
was the time I decided I would workout. So…during my lunch hour I went to the
Total Nutrition store and bought my bag. I swear the heavens parted, the sun
shined and the birds sang as I walked out of that store with a renewed vigor
for my success.
I looked at the time and it was running short. I drove
across the street to the nearest burger joint and ordered a kids cheese burger (not
on my diet plan at all!) and an unsweet tea. I hauled ass the gym and figured I would
just eat and then run in. So I sat in the gym’s parking lot eating my kid
cheeseburger fascinated as I looked through my new food bag at all the
compartments and pouches. I sat there imaging how I was going to be so
organized and how I would no longer have any excuse to eat fast food – which
was actually my way of excusing the cheeseburger in my mouth. It felt like my birthday. I finally looked
up and realized I was running late back to work, so I didn’t actually go into
the gym and register. I got back to work and my app alarm sent another reminder.
I looked down and the workout was only going to be 9mins long. So what did I do?
Hell yeah - you betcha! I threw caution to the wind and pushed play. Then I sat at my desk
for 9 minutes straight watching the workout on my phone. When it was over I
told myself that I could have done that! I was completely oblivious to my first
day’s goal! Later on I had my shake, I had a healthy supper of hamburger steak
and asparagus and I even performed a quick 20 minute stair workout while my son
was in tutoring class. It wasn’t a perfect first day, but it was a start. Looking
back now, I think if I hadn’t went and bought that food bag, that maybe I wouldn’t
be where I am now. Why? Because that large bag was a constant visual reminder
that I have no dietary excuses. Sitting proudly up on my counter I couldn’t
ignore it and somewhere deep inside me, I finally knew that I didn’t want to
ignore it…
