Day 1

I don't know how this thing works. I am a first timer. Funny how everyone in the blogging world starts out with those comments, isn't it? I am doing this to make my life..... easier. That and working with my cousin to lose 30 by 30. What is that? We both turn the big 3-0 in October. We have 21(ish) weeks to get this done. She has 16 days less than I do. My goal? To make it by HER birthday. That's only fair. Why the blogging? We both have issues with yo-yo dieting. No more. It's time to make a lifestyle change. PERIOD. That doesn't mean I am going vegetarian. That doesn't mean I am going completely fat free. That means I am going to make smaller portions and more fruits and veggies. The way I see it, my grandparents grew up on grissle. They didn't have high colesterol. I can eat the things I eat now. I don't eat bad. I eat too much. Not even so much that. I don't exercise. I hate it. I loathe it. I have a treadmill. I used it faithfully when my youngest daughter (who is now 3) was a newborn. I lost over 65 pounds in less than 4 months. That was all I did. Well, that and counted calories. I have gained most if not all of it back. Why? Because I not only got off the treadmill (I can go one night without it. I'll do it tomorrow. I am too tired tonight, three nights off won't hurt anything..... and now it's been 2 years), I also stopped counting. It's time to be more disciplined. So...... here we go. I don't know how to add pictures and the like yet. Hopefully one day I will have time to sit down and do so. But for now..... this will have to do.

On the roster for tomorrow. Eat a healthy breakfast (I am NOT a breakfsat person) and get on the treadmill for at least 30 minutes.

NOTE TO SELF~~ It's nice outside..... it is legal when the husband is home to walk outside where the sun may actually hit your face and you might just feel that much better about life in general!!! Go listen to the birds chirping in the morning air!! Fresh air!! NEW CONCEPT!!!