This summer, I’ve been putting pen to paper and writing my long overdue fitness and lifestyle book called Sexy Weights! – How to Look Fit and Healthy at Any Age!

At first, I felt the usual why would anyone care about my life protests welling up from my inner critic. I have no great story. There’s no ‘marketable moments’. I was never 200 pounds, knock-kneed or had a great health crises that steered me toward fitness.

So what makes me an authority here? Why would anyone want to read my book on exercise, nutrition, and life in general?

My story is common. Millions of women struggle through what I call ‘living in the grays’: that bland dullness that follows us through life, then we turn 40? 50? and wonder where our body, our sparkle, our life went. Common, predictable…an un-story of sorts.

As women, we struggle to lift ourselves above the sometimes flavourless-ness of our life. We struggle to re-discover our lost sparkle again, our sex appeal, our youth. (Is it any wonder the Vampire movie series are so popular with middle-aged women with its return to young, sexy romantic love?) 

My call to fitness was never about building the perfect bicep. It’s about women supporting women. It’s about finding our sparkle and our passion, and never, ever giving up.  Because we’re all in this together.

That’s what weight lifting means to me. It’s my symbol, my talisman. It reminds me who I am, and to never give up. Find your talisman and steer straight for it! Celebrate your strength, your sexiness, your right to take up space.

Karen

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