biggest loser

I think I have confessed before that I watch Biggest Loser. So last night I watched and there was this cool moment in one of those "talk to camera," interview things. The girl had just one this challenge where they kayaked and climbed up a mountain (not like harness and hand over hand or anything. But it was certainly a steep walk). She said excitedly to the camera, "I can't believe I just did that. Man I feel so alive!" 

That really landed on me. "I feel so alive." How did she feel before? She wasn't dead before. But now she feels more alive. I love the concept that we could be here, living but not alive. Not because I want to feel that way, but because it hits at a reality that Jesus mentions. "I have come that they may have life and have it to the full." This is a personal goal: to be present and alive in each moment. I don't have obesity robbing me of my experience of life, but there are other things that can do that: lies I believe or habits I can't break or thought patterns I can't avoid.