Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels may not be a household name, but to those who have used her DVD’s (properly) or watched her network TV shows knows that she has devoted her life to making people proud of themselves (and a little bit to fame).

During my senior year of college I decided to devote myself not only to my studies but to my health as well – I took on a strict diet and work out regimen and with the help of a few Jillian Michaels DVD’s I dropped 40 pounds in four months… and not only that, I also did phenomenally in all of my classes – I had my life under control.

Turns out, when you’re that strict, the slightest imbalance can throw you off… Upon graduation I moved back to New York where I took a job upstate doing PR. Because the job was at a vegetarian retreat center, it was not too difficult to keep in shape but as soon as I moved on to working in Stamford, CT it all went out the window.

I think now that that was one of the many factors that lead to my leaving that job – I was unhappy in a lot of ways but one of them was with my health. I had gained all of the weight back and was generally unhappy - I was not obese by any means but my weight triggered the feeling that I was back to square one… I was not where I wanted to be - I was not doing anything that I could be proud of.

I was trained as a journalist and where I was working, they threw ethics out the window and ethics is something I am a stickler about… the company has continued to report unethically, and more so now that I am not there to put my foot down. I can’t explain it all now but something in my body told me that I was going against everything I had worked toward and I was not about to let myself fall off of the ledge, I was going to wake up and smell the proverbial coffee.

So this is yet another tale in “why Morgan moved to Montana,” and I am happy to say that the health kick has come back… ten days in and seven pounds gone… hey, it takes more than a saddle to get back onto the horse.