Who am I?

Let me introduce myself to you! My name is Lisa Allred! I was born in a West Texas town called Snyder about one hour from Lubbock! When I was still a baby my parents moved to Grapevine, Texas! Because I am a true blooded Texan I have a very strong Southern Draw and have even been asked if I was from Georgia!
In 2010 I was helping to plan my 30 year high school reunion! I had been trying to lose weight and now we were down to 6 weeks before the reunion was to take place and I had yet to lose the 25 to 30 lbs that I had set in my mind to lose, because I had been stuck on a plateau! I had some friends that were successful with the Slim 4 Life program and so I decided to give that a try! I feel like the only difference in this and what I had been doing was that my protein was increased my carbs were decreased! This change began to make a difference and in exactly 6 weeks, the day of the reunion celebration I was down 30 lbs!
My highest weight was 239! After my reunion I continued to keep losing and at the time got to 156. While planning my reunion I ran into a friend and she had been singing! I had spent years in what I call a season of depression due to a number of reasons. I woke up one day and said " I'm not going to stay here any more! " and I did not! I remember going to the gym and seeing my huge body in the mirrors I was surrounded by saying, " I will never be skinny" eventually that turned into positive what I call cheerleading to myself saying, " if you were on the Biggest Loser Show, you would have to get on that treadmill and do it blood, sweat and tears so get your Advil and get with it girlfriend!  While my kids were growing up I had spent years and years of working! I worked to pay for select baseball teams, trips to tournaments, many private lessons, dance competitions you name it!
After losing this weight I decided I would like to do some things I would like to do! I had done some musical things in my adolescent to jr.  high years but let's face at 15 years old my interest for boys to men quickly became my top priority! So!! We will touch on that part of my life later lol!
My friend kept talking about her vocal coach and I kept asking for his number! One day I got a call from Corley (Desi)! He said, " I understand you are interested in taking some voice lessons!" I said, " Yes I am!" He said, " Let's set up a time for you to come to the studio and let me hear you sing and will go from there!" Now you have to understand and Desi can witness to you that my life consisted of  singing in the car, lol which I still do to this day! I was use to singing along even in an a acapella church which was what I was raised in! So I had never had professional lessons! I could not project my voice! Sing along yes but these were two different exercises! I started lessons with Desi around the end of January in 2011!  I truly to this day feel like God placed Desi into my life at this specific time and what I was about to learn about me, myself and I was more than just learning how to sing! My life was about to have some interesting challenges that I would face! Test in life! And as I went thru this journey I would learn lots of valuable lessons! God had already been working for years and years in my life giving me layer by layer as I was ready planning and preparing me for something! What was it? I had been a hairdresser since 1981 I thought that was it! But no he had even bigger plans for this Texas raised girl named Lisa Gail! Keep following to find out the rest of the story! And feel free to ask questions when you want to!
I hope I can figure out how to upload some photos since this blogging is my new adventure! Lol I've taught myself quite a bit about social media and other new experiences! I'm still learning things all the time and the one thing that always stays in my mind! No matter what age you are in order to succeed in life and gain new wisdom in various things we need to have a teachable spirit. This is important! Let me tell you coming from a person who has had years of rebelling especially against authority lol this will humble you quickly!

Wow! I finally did it! Yay!

Well I was sitting here thinking where do I start? And then it dawned on me well you just did! So there you have it! Yay!
This is just the beginning of yet a new journey of life with Lisa Gail! I have lots of stories to share with you! I hope you will follow my blog because it is here that I will get up close and personal with you in the most intimate way because I have a lot of things that go on in my life!
 I use to say each day is like a new episode of the Lucille Ball show! Lol! One of the things you will learn about me is how much I love people! I promise you cannot shock me with anything! I have lots of experience! So get on board with me and let's take a ride on a magic carpet!
I want to share my life changes that started in 2010 and where I was before those changes took place and where I am today! Still Overcoming all the obstacles that try to sabotage but guess what? I'm still choosing to believe that there are huge things headed my way and you too can believe and  have the opportunity to turn your life into a dream come true!
Happy Valentines Day! How fun to start a blog the very weekend of Valentines Day when you are so full of love to give! Bless someone this weekend if you don't know how or what to do to make that happen just ask?  Love, Lisa Gail