"Walking In My Footsteps"
We are so fortunate in the Team
Beachbody community to have such a great group of like minded people that share
a deep seated desire to get healthier as well as a passion for helping others
do the same. That is exactly how this opportunity began and it is its life
blood and why it is flourishing now.
The willingness to support each other
and keep each other accountable means that we meet people that are there for us
and people that we are there for and bonds of appreciation and friendship are
built.
Sometimes, if not many times, getting to
know another person through coaching means being inspired or motivated or
prompted to do more and greater things.
Cale
Dansbee came into my life much the same way that all of you did. He became
a Team Beachbody member. But there was something that instantly set him apart
from most of us because of where his footsteps had taken him in his life. Those
footsteps lit a fire in him that not only lead him to become a member, but he
also signed up right away as a coach - seeing the Team Beachbody coaching
opportunity as a way to either keep people from following in his footsteps or
if they are already there, to help them get on the path in life that his
footsteps now fall on.
Cale Dansbee in His Own Words
"Somewhere around 1992, when I was
stationed at the Keflavik Naval Air Station, in Keflavik Iceland (yep, I lived
there and absolutely loved it for two amazing years), I started to put on
weight. Slowly at first -- so slowly in fact, that I didn't really notice that
I had already put on enough weight that part of my welcome package to Iceland,
was a 'Welcome to the Fat-Boy Program' letter from the Air Force.
I
look back at pictures of me from 1992 and think "what I wouldn't give to look
like that guy again", even though that guy was fat by Air Force
standards!
I tried to lose some weight while in Iceland, but upon
arriving at my new duty station in Las Vegas, Nevada, I was again welcomed by
the gloomy letter :( The Air Force keeps really good records and that isn't
always a good thing :)
I'd like to say my life was hard, that I worked
long hours, and bla bla bla, and didn't have the time to eat right and
exercise, but that would be crap and we all know that. Instead, I'll just be
straight up and say I worked the night shift and discovered that when you left
the flight line at 11:00PM, you could still find beer and hot wings in
Vegas!
Let's fast forward through the next handful of years when I moved
to southern California.
Sometime in mid-2009, and at a whopping 240
pounds (I'm only 5'5" tall with an ideal body weight of 140-150), I decided it
was time to change. I had applied for a life insurance policy to provide for my
family should something happen to me, and I'm pretty sure the lab tech got
'iced caramel macchiato' when he drew my blood. The only numbers higher than my
blood sugar, lipids, and cholesterol, were the rates for the insurance.
Something had to change..."
Can you understand why someone like Cale
can have a story that is so easy for so many to relate to? What do you think
that Cale did? Nothing, something or everything that he could. You can
click here
(and I urge you to do so especially if you relate to this story) to read
Cale's Team
Beachbody profile or you can go to his website,
Topstone.com if you need
to read an inspiring story today that will get you motivated to change in a big
way! Make sure when you do that you read, "What
Drives Me". It is a life changing story... |
