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Battles with weight are most often not battles about weight. Most often, they are battles in our minds about unresolved is - sues, unmet needs or unfulfilled ares of life. What starts out as a problem or issue that needs resolving, manifests it - self into weight on our bod- ies. What starts out as a dis- satisfaction in life, becomes a plate full of something that makes us temporarily feel the satisfaction that is miss - ing. When I was 30, I suffered a major skiing accident that ended up requiring surgery and a harsh recovery. The fruit of that journey was a nearly 100 pound weight loss that I kept off for over ten years. A few years ago, life served up some struggles, including a se - vere back injury and I became more sedentary and unable to live the way I had keeping the weight off. Slowly nearly twenty of those pounds came back. I struggled to manage my weight and to re - claim the control I had over my emotions and my body. There are many reasons why food works against us. Sometimes the choices we make are unintentionally poor. Sometimes we mis - calculate the calories in a food item. Sometimes we lie to ourselves about the lack of nutritional value in our choices and our portion sizes. Sometimes we sim - ply do not care. Sometimes the thoughts of the meal or the treat are more seductive than the sexiest lover you can imagine. Sometimes the thought of denying yourself something, when you feel you are denied many things, feels like an act of self hatred. I understand. I can re - late totally to how you feel. Up until last fall, I was stuck back in that place of day- dreaming about dinnertime. I wanted my weight under control, but I also wanted to eat whatever I wanted and to relax as much as possi - ble. I knew that it wasn't fea- sible and I knew I had to fig- ure out what was holding me back. I joined Stephanie McKenzie's boot camp at Vi- tality and I started putting my life back together. Yes, I did just say my life. I reclaimed my life by going to boot camp. When I started at boot camp, I was more sad than I realized, I was more afraid than I realized I was and it all manifested in my habits. I was living simply and in a state of reticence. My first weeks at boot camp were brutal, loss of breath, inability to keep up and to lift hardly any weight. I was always in the back, always quiet and always struggling. So much so, that I would work out and have to come home to bed afterward. Over time, I saw the changes in my body, my mind and my ability. I started talking and shout - ing encouragements to oth- ers and then one day some- one told me I looked a lot thinner. Turns out, I had lost the most that cycle and was awarded the Biggest Loser prize package! Each day that I have been active again has been a mini triumph over pain. Physi - cal pain that kept me from being active and emotional pains that kept me from liv- ing my best life. I am liter- ally a poster child for the slogan 'If I can do it, you can do it,' because seri- ously, if I can- so can you. If I can get my ass into my car and get to boot camp, so can you. Your boot camp might be the gym, a walk in your neighborhood or a turn on a treadmill. If I can say no to a dessert, so can you. If I can eat chicken and a sweet potato and love ev - ery bit, so can you. If I can feel the strength in my core from a gazillion crunches that I thought I could never do, so can you. If I can squat and burpee and lunge with painful joints begging me to stop, so can you. You all know me, you've read this column for eight years. You trust me and you know I want you to love your life. You can be a biggest loser, just like me. Faydra Rector, MA is a men - tal health administrator, au- thor, public speaker, educator and life coach who lives in Red Bluff. She can be reached at lifecoach@shasta.com or view her blogs at faydraandcom - pany.blogspot.com/ and alla- boutdivorce.blogspot.com/. You matter The biggest loser: Learning how to fight food The following informa- tion is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff's Department, Corning Po - lice Department and Cali- fornia Highway Patrol logs. Arrests Somngeune Michael Amphavannasouk: 33, Shasta Lake, was arrested Friday on southbound In- terstate 5 north of Corning for felony possession of a narcotic and misdemeanor driving under the influence. Bail was $20,000. Dustin Doc Bill: 32, Red Bluff, was arrested Sat- urday on Rio and Ash for a felony parole violation. Daniel Joseph Mar- shall: also known by the last name Stratton, 34, Red Bluff was arrested Saturday on the 700 block of Pine Street for felony possession of a controlled substance and misde- meanor paraphernalia. Bail was $18,000. Darrin Lester Rasmus- sen: 44, Red Bluff was arrested Saturday on the 1800 block of Walnut Street for felony pos- session of a controlled substance. Rasmussen has outstanding charges of felony possession of a controlled substance and a misdemeanor proba- tion violation. Bail was $25,000. David Keith Springman: 38, Red Bluff was arrested Saturday at the Hampton Inn for felony possession of a narcotic and misdemean- or driving under the influ- ence. Bail was $20,000. Boating Woodson Bridge: A boat was reported adri Sat- urday evening aer it lost power and the occupants were bailing water. Depu- ties were able to give the boat a tow. Burglary 16000 block McCoy Road: Residence broken into Thursday night. A tele- scope, leather jackets and parachutes were taken. 15000 block North Men- docino Drive: A burglary was reported Sunday morning to a locked resi- dence. The owner reported unknown suspects pushed open the front door to the house sometime between Feb. 10 and Saturday. The home was ransacked. Items taken included mul- tiple cans of money with about $200, household goods, antique items and appliances. The total loss and damage to the doors was estimated at $6,000. Bend Bridge Boat Ramp: A vehicle was broken into Sunday evening. A wallet, purse and clothing were taken. Noise Cone Avenue at Sher- wood Boulevard: Numer- ous calls were received around 8:30 p.m. Saturday about either a shooting or someone setting off fireworks in the area. It was later determined that someone had been holding a wake in the area. Prowler 8000 block Marek Road: Children reported they saw a man looking in the back window of their home around 8:45 p.m. Friday. The Sherman Drive: Wallet taken from vehicle Thurs- day night. Mariposa Avenue: A year sticker was taken from a license plate. The license plate holder was cut to remove the sticker. 24000 block Tehama Vina Road: A green Cole- man Outfitter canoe was reported stolen sometime Friday night or Saturday morning. The canoe was valued at $300. A tractor trailer was backed on the victim's grass to take the canoe, which caused $200 in damage. 22000 block Brady Court: License plates were taken from two vehicles Saturday. Vandalism Wilcox Oaks Golf Course: Someone reportedly dam- aged two greens on the golf course by splashing Round-Up onto the grass Thursday night. Police The Lassen Park Founda- tion (LPF) has announced it will accept applications for 25 grants of $1,000 to school and youth groups. Deadline to apply is May 1. "The program is funded by individual and corporate contributions, and it's grown each year," LPF Chairman John Koeberer said. In 2013, the LPF awarded 27 grants totaling $21,632. To qualify for a grant, group leaders must establish that their kids need financial as - sistance. They must also or- ganize the camping trip, pro- vide adult supervision and insurance. Last year, groups awarded the grants included youth from eight to 18 years old from Shasta, Tehama, Butte, Lassen, Plumas and Sacra - mento counties as well as from the greater San Fran- cisco Bay Area. "The kind of kids who ben- efit most from this program are from low-income, urban or rural families. They're of- ten at risk or in difficult fam- ily situations," said Execu- tive Director Kristen Gray. "This is often their first time camping and their first visit to a national park, but as one child wrote to us, it was im - portant to her life, as being out in nature is where she's happiest." The grants pay for camp - ing supplies, transportation and food for nearly 500 kids and their chaperones. Koe- berer said Lassen Volcanic National Park provides close to 100 days of camping and activities for these groups each year. The kids learn how to camp, participate in guided hikes, work on service projects and learn about such concepts as volcanology, gla - ciation, astrobiology, fire ecology and climate. Youth who visited the site of the Reading Fire in the Twin Lakes area, last year, were excited by learning about fire dependent and re - sistant plant species and the role of fire on natural land- scapes. Practical experi- ences like this make learning about science more relevant to them when they return to school. "Kids who are otherwise unmotivated, gain a new ap - preciation for nature, build self-confidence, indepen- dence, teamwork, a sense of ownership of the na- tional park and a love of the outdoors," Koeberer said. They leave inspired by what they've done. This is often life changing for them, mak - ing this one of the most grat- ifying programs we do." Information about apply- ing for an LPF Youth Camp- ing Grant can be obtained by calling 530-378-2600, emailing kristen@lassen- parkfoundation.org or visit- ing www.lassenparkfounda- tion.org. The Lassen Park Foun- dation is a 501 (c) 3 non- profit organization that pro- vides philanthropic support to preserve and interpret the natural and cultural re- sources of Lassen Volcanic National Park and its envi- rons, for present and future generations. Lassen Park COURTeSy PHOTO Students from Jackson Heights School in Red Bluff arrive at Lassen Volcanic National Park in 2013. Grants to support youth camping Faydra Rector Of the twenty-five en- tries in the Tehama county farm center egg laying con- test, twenty are keeping an egg record of their flocks, and eighteen keep both egg and feed records. In connection it is inter - esting to note, said Farm Adviser D. M. Smith to- day, that most of the Feb- ruary winners in the vari- ous classes were feeding a mixed scrap feed, mash of skim milk and greens. A majority of the win - ners, he continued, also are keeping their f locks confined all the time, or at least part of the time. — March 14, 1924 March warm in Red Bluff figures show The average temperature in Red Bluff district for the first fourteen days of March was nearly six degrees a day above normal, figures in the office of H. J. Andree, local observer for the U. S. weather bureau. With a max - imum of 78, the average tem- perature for March 14 was 13 degrees above normal. —March 15, 1924 3 war planes fly over RB on round world trip Of the seven pla nes passing over Red Bluff at 11:55 this morning, three landed about a mile north - east of Cottonwood, one of the planes developing en- gine trouble and the oth- ers landing to help the ma- chine in trouble. 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