**Here is a letter I received today I thought I would share** Dear Coach Abel – I wanted to write to you to tell you to please keep doing what you are doing: some of us are listening. It’s been two years since my last competition. I look back on it now and the only phrase that comes to my mind is “what a fraud I was then.” Here I was telling everyone and anyone how awesome it was to be lean and how “fitness is a lifestyle and you have be disciplined” and all the rest. What a fraud. None of it was about “fitness” and what I was doing wasn’t about “discipline” – It was all about obsession, Scott. I was training up to 4 hours per day near the end, eating barely nothing and what I did eat I burned off, so my body was constantly starving. I was miserable everywhere except the gym or around other competitors where we all glorified how wonderful it all is. What a croc. I stopped being intimate with my husband and the response I got from other competitors, even online was “oh, that’s normal close to a contest.” Another dirty little secret of the industry. And this may be “normal” for competitors, but it’s not normal for a healthy marriage. I was short-tempered and irritable with my husband and kids, and yet to everyone else I was always “this is Great” “I love competing.” What a fraud? Now I ask myself why I needed so much validation for my own body and called it all “fitness and wonderful.” I guess because I had never really been lean or thin before. Suddenly I’m a hottie in the gym and it all mattered WAY TOO MUCH and I almost lost my family. Over what? – I ask myself now. And now I’m 55 lbs heavier than when I competed, which is ironically another 20 lbs heavier than before I ever decided to compete. I figure this is the cost I have to pay for learning a huge life lesson and living such a lie for so long. But right now, I’ve never been happier and I’m so glad I escaped that life, with just a few hard lessons – and it didn’t cost me my family, as it has other competitors that I know. Taking pictures of my food and posting it online like “that’s healthy” or something??? Why can’t people see how this is just “obsession?” I’m so grateful for what you do and say. I just wanted to tell you my story and ask you to keep doing what you do! Thank you ========================= I’ve received HUNDREDS of emails from women that share the EXACT challenges and suffering, which is WHY I developed The Empowered Woman Experience. You dont need to suffer any more. Take my hand by clicking on this link and join the Sisterhood and end your suffering ---> realempoweredwoman/
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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