Happy New Year! Come Along On My Journey for 2015!

As some of you may know, I first published this blog with www.powherhouse.com back in October of 2014.  But, since this is my personal journey I wanted to share it on my personal blog as well.  Come along with me and I hope you can relate and find inspiration in my story.

Hello my name is Dina and I am a serial dieter.  Statement that I am sure many of you have made as well.  I think I was 13 when I went on my first ‘diet’.  

You see, I lived in a house with a mother who was overweight, some would say obese.  I would watch as she hid food and snuck ‘forbidden’ treats late at night when she thought no one would hear or see.  I thought that his behavior was normal and common place.  Isn't this the kind “healthy” relationship we are supposed to have with our food?

I can lose weight, I have many, many times, more times than I can count, but keeping it off and believing that I deserved to be healthy and happy has been another story.

As some of you may know, I am a Public Relations Consultant for a boutique PR agency in Vancouver called A Cue Creative Consulting.  We have been working, growing and connecting with PowHERhouse for quite some time now.  I have been able to see firsthand the positive effects having a supportive network of like minded women can have not only on your business but your way of life as well.

So when Charlene offered me this opportunity to participate in her 12 week Transformation Program, I knew I had to jump on it.  Finally figuring out how to incorporate a work, life balance and learn that eating healthy and exercising is not a punishment but a gift to give your healthy self, is just priceless for any working woman trying to find more time and energy in any given day. I guess you could say these new ways of thinking and living would be my cause for taking this program but I would only be partly correct.  I am also attempting to conquer one of my lifelong nemesis’s running, I am going to be running my very first 5km race this year. 

Anyone who knows me knows that the idea of me becoming a runner would be a complete far-fetched concept never mind a reality for me.  But I am here to say that ways of thinking and perceptions are made to be broken, albeit transformed.  So as a means of keeping me accountable and committed to this cause, I want to invite you all to come along on my personal journey of self discovery and transformation.  I will be blogging about my successes, failures, experiences and struggles not only with this program but along my entire training journey to my running races in 2015.  They say a journey begins with just one step; well come along as I go one stride at a time.