A Year of Transformation: 10 Lessons Learned

I didn’t start the year with the intention to change. In fact, I am or at least was a change resistor. I was very comfortable with the life I was living. Was it exactly as I wanted it to be? No. But it was the life I knew and it was good - in some ways very good, and in other ways good enough. I had already made some big personal changes in the couple of years before my Year of Transformation. I had joined a fitness and nutrition program called MaxFit and was exercising five days a week. This was a first for me.

I had a personal setback during the holidays preceding the Year of Transformation. I was in emotional pain and turned to food to numb myself - a default I thought I had overcome. I put on almost 20 pounds in a matter of a couple of months. I knew I had to do something but I wasn’t sure what…