Sticks and Stones..

So, I learned something this weekend! Being a YouTube blogger and a workout video blogger has a dark side. I recently received a comment which I have deleted, from someone I don’t know. Because I want to share this Journey to Health, my posts and Facebook page are set to public, otherwise only friends could see these and I truly want to inspire others to make the commitment to get healthy. So imagine my shock and upset when I read that... “ Lori you look like a tub of lard with a face. You are a fat cow and have no business being on here.“ He then proceeded, because I’m set to public, to copy a photo of me and post it with his comment. I’m not naive, this risk comes with the “job.“ I just never expected to experience it first hand.

I said in the beginning of this, that you would get Brutal Honesty on here from me...I could literally feel my face drain of all color and I felt sick to my stomach when I saw it. I felt so degraded and beaten, as if someone had ripped out all of my “ goodness, my joy of caring for others, my spirit of wanting to get healthier and inspire others to do so as well.” It was the worst morning of my Journey since I began it on April 18th.

I told my husband about it yesterday. He was very supportive and told me how to delete and reporting it. I then had the frustration of trying to block him, report him and delete it. Needless to say, it was a sad lesson on the dark side of being on the internet. If ever ther would be a legitimate reason to quit right now...that would be it. I am sure none of you would blame me for feeling like that. After all, who knows if this person lives near by and could find me....or what other damage he could do.

The rest of the day, I couldn’t get it out of my head. I was scared, I felt as if all my efforts to share my journey were for nothing...

I honestly cannot remember the last time I felt so defeated.☹️ So I did what I would do under these circumstance... I Prayed about this. A lot. I was seriously questioning my purpose and intentions of all of this. I ended the day with more questions than I had answers for.

Today is a new day for me, I have decided that one jerk on Facebook isn’t goin to deter me from doing this journey publicly. I truly Believe that for every one jerk, there are five other who I can inspire and HE IS NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME!!!!!

This is MY Journey To Health and I will continue to share this with all of you who have kindly subscribed to follow along, and those who follow my live Facebook workout video.

I will be on my elliptical at 1:30 today and hope to inspire all of you to start or maintain you own Journeys To Health.