Just finished watching Jeff Bailey on Oprah. She visited Meridian last week to challenge “fat people in Mississippi” to help knock our state out of first place in obesity.

Health writer Michaela Morris has written about Jeff and his own journey to better health in years past. Right now, she’s at the Wellness Center at a party where folks are gathering with Jeff to watch him on national television.

If you missed it, I hope you can somehow catch Jeff’s story again. At his heaviest, he weighed more than 700 pounds. He has lost at least 150. He said he’s come a long way, but he’s got a long way to go. But he isn’t giving up.

He is at the Wellness Center five days a week. Amazing.

I’m going to think of Jeff Bailey when my alarm clock goes off in the early mornings and I am tempted to hit the snooze and stay under the covers. I’m going to think of Jeff Bailey and when I do, I’m going to get up and make my way to the Wellness Center.

Thanks, Jeff. What an inspiration you are!