ALL in the name of staying healthy

It's been since January 2012 that I've changed my life for the better. My health and strength renewed, ultimately by my renewed walk with my Lord and Savior, my Father but also with the addition of Body By Vi's 90 DAY CHALLENGE. This was the BEST decision I could have EVER made in my life. There are so many health issues that run through my family; Diabetes, Hypertension, Congestive Heart Failure, High Cholesterol and Cancer just to name a few. Being over weight is a BIG risk factor in most if not all of those conditions so having a Cardiologist tell me the heart condition I had could be resolved if I lost weight was the final blow ... I knew I had to get my health right and my life back!

Yep *proud big full mouth grin* that's me ... from a size 15/16 (or Ashley Stewart 12) to now an Old Navy/Express size 8!! I am VI LIFE PROUD!!! Please believe ...

... if it had not been for the PUSH of the VI LIFE I would not be as healthy as I am today. I worked hard to get to this point so guess what? You have to work TWICE as hard to stay here!!

So here I am with Leslie Sansone at least twice weekly using her "WALK AT HOME" DVD collection, walking the neighborhood and walking the bridges to maintain this new healthy lifestyle AND body!! As of late, I've been walking to Beyonce's "RUN THE WORLD" because the B.P.M.'s are AWESOME for brisk walks/jogs. Don't believe me? Listen ...

... now you tell me!!

Now, with this in mind, you are moving and grooving along to Beyonce and getting a GREAT brisk walk that's generating all kinds of sweat. Oh now I KNOW I am doing something. On this particular day, TODAY, as I am walking and jamming I noticed a man a few feet ahead of me, walking towards me, and his stride had slowed down. I wasn't sure why, was hoping it wasn't to talk to me because I was in a zone. I noticed his eyes were cut to his left, my right so I followed his gaze and there, looking back at us was one ugly unleashed dog! It was black and white with the body of a pit-bull and a long snout like the dog on the Rug Rats cartoon.

At this point there is INTERNAL screaming going on as I looked around for a car to jump on (EVERYONE ALL OF A SUDDEN HAS JOBS NOW) ... NO CARS IN SIGHT! I looked frantically all over the ground for a stick, NOTHING! Are you serious right now??? I am walking very slow by this point with the music turned ALL the way down looking over at the dog

who is also looking back at me and slowly walking in my direction.

This has to be the WORSE walking experience I'd ever had! I don't usually encounter loose dogs on my walks and I've never carried any types of sticks (note to self ... grab stick when you walk the neighborhoods) so this is all new to me. My heart is beating 1000 B.P.M. so it felt and I thought I was going to faint. This could NOT be happening to ME at THIS very moment ... it just couldn't. In my panic mode I remembered being told never to run away from OR make eye contact with a dog and if faced with a "DOG FIGHT" to hit it on the nose hard. I could handle the first 2 but I was PRAYING that the 3rd would remain an unnecessary thing to know. I stopped looking in the direction of the dog and began using my cell phone face as a rear view mirror to watch the dogs movement ... after a few seconds which felt like an eternity it fell back and went up into the yard.

Please believe as soon as I could no longer see that mutt I turned Beyonce ALL the way up and took off!! I had NEVER been so happy to see Cesery end and Merrill begin! I think I made it home in less than 15 minutes from that area and as soon as I hit my door I couldn't do anything but laugh. I imagined not being in the shape I'm in and encountering a loose dog, THAT would've been something serious!! Will I do this again? You're damn skippy I will but I will carry a stick from now on. I can't let one monkey or in this case one doggy stop my health and fitness show! I will say this, it DID give Beyonce's RUN THE WORLD a new meaning ... it is DEFINITELY a literal thing now!

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