{Accountability}

I. Did. It!! Woohoo! I intended on running yesterday afternoon and I stuck to it. I know this sounds so small, but really, it's huge for me. After working all day and feeling like 5:00PM is nowhere in sight, the last thing I normally want to do is go out of my way to the gym, crawl out of my warm car just to get hot and sweaty from running on a treadmill. But not yesterday...I was excited to go!! (Granted, my muscles are cussing me out today, but that's OK! That means I worked SOMETHING.)

So I downloaded the Couch 2 5K app on my phone and got to it!! 
Running for me is such a cleansing activity. Bad day?...bad week?...bad month? Let it go and RUN!!

I plan to alternate Wii Zumba on my days off from C25K in hopes of toning some other muscles on this body blob :-) I'm also trying to incorporate my Weight Watchers points/eating back into this lifestyle as well.

I know I have a long road ahead, and realize I will not be skinny next week (oh how I wish it were that easy). But I plan to blog each day with my accomplishments, my not so accomplishments (I'm not real fond of the word 'failures'), and my every day life. Hope you'll stick around...this should turn out to be a fun ride!!

Anyone else out there being accountable??

{Dear Skinny...Please come back}

So this is me….8 years and a 5 year old ago =)  Oh, how I wish it all still looked like this.  But it doesn’t…and to be quite honest, it probably never will again.  But, that’s okay.  However, I do want to be lean and healthy again…and I could stand to see less poundage on the scale too!!

I hope what they say about pictures adding 10 lbs is true…because recently I decided to go home and take some pictures of my body.  Boy was I surprised.  “Oh my!”  That’s all I can say.  Well, that and “Oh my goodness, do I really look like that?!?!”  I thought about posting the pictures...but I quickly changed my mind.  It's not pretty y'all...not even close.  Bleh!

I’m currently at the 140-something mark and would loooooove be see the 120′s again…and I know I can do it.  It’s been done before, even after I had my princess.  I just need the determination and the will power.  Determination isn’t hard, I've already made my mind up…it’s the will power I need because I LOVE yummy foods!  Seriously, they are my weakness.  End of story.

I started Weight Watchers back in June of 2011 with my mom and did really well.  But then, like many, I fell off the wagon.  So this is my declaration to start back today for a healthier, skinnier, BETTER me!  Right now I have every intention of running at the gym after work...so cross your fingers I follow through =)