Change is a part of life...there can be good changes, bad changes, etc, and I for one need a change. Hi my name is Jo Ann or as some people call me G-Jo, and I am from a small town in Kentucky. I am a day care provider with an education in early childhood education. I need changes in my weight loss, my overall health, my self esteem, and most of all my spiritual life. God has always been a major part of my life, and I know He will continue to be. I just need to focus on putting Him first more, and then everything else will fall into place. With God, family and friends (like you on sparkpeople) I can do this. Right now I am down in the valley, but I am on my way up. It may be a slow crawl but I am going to climb up that mountain and succeed. I am looking forward to my restart and getting back to being an active part on sparkpeople. Feel free to contact me anytime. I look forward to meeting each of you and getting back in touch with those that I met before.

Goals include: *Gain a more personal relationship with Christ. Return back to Him(this I feel will help me deal with everything else). *Read my Bible more. *Pray more. *Drink 8 glasses of water a day. *Cut down on my sodas * Exercise daily (Cardio - 3 times a week, Strength - 2 times a week). *Eat healthier foods (try to avoid fast food places) *Measure out my servings. *Keep a journal. * Become more active on the message boards and with the teams I'm a part of. *Use the gift God gave me of listening to others and being an encourager and offering them support when they need me.

My program consists of watching what I eat and the amount by measuring and finding new ways to prepare food in a healthy way, exercising by alternating cardio and strength training, reading my Bible daily and trying to live my life in a way that is pleasing to God, cut down on sodas and start drinking water, work on my self esteem and confidence, find ways to improve my mood and outlook on life, and to encourage others which will lead me to feeling good because others are happy. Its a good feeling knowing you made someone else smile.

As you can see from one of my teams that I am a survivor of sexual abuse. I was molested as a child. This is one of the reasons I suffer from low self esteem and why I have struggled with weight gain my whole life. I have learned that I shouldn't be ashamed to admit this happened to me because it wasn't my fault. I have let anger and bitterness rule my life for so long. I kept the secret bottled up for years. It happened when I was 11 and I didn't tell until I was 25. Without God all those years I wouldn't have made it. Now I have the support of my family and my friends which have helped a lot. The devil isn't going to win because that would be letting my abuser win. God is going to see me through. I really want a change so I can live a life pleasing to God, so I can gain self esteem, so I can be healthy, and so I can feel like I have succeeded at something.

I like collecting snowbabies, singing in my church choir, working with my youth group at church (pretty much anything that has to do with church), being with my friends, shopping, listening to music, watching Dancing With the Stars, Gray's Anatomy, Clean House, How Do I Look, Rachael Ray, Paula Deen, and Days of Our Lives. This is just a little bit about me.

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