2014 "news"

Since I really don't think anyone reads this anymore, this might be silly, but there may be a handful of you who are still following along, even at my bad efforts this past year to keep everyone up to date. I have to admit those "in the cloud" items are throwing me for a loop. Where are all my pictures and how do I down load them now?  Anyway...

A and I got a little lazy in our efforts to be healthier and happier this past year, by the holidays we were almost what we once were, able to eat an entire box of chocolates in a sitting and our pants are getting a little tight. We both want to get back on track and lose those last few pounds (plus the ones we gain back eating the box of chocolates and cookies), so we have challenged ourselves to get there, back on track, and feeling good again.  I also have an alterior motive. I promised myself I would be at my goal weight by my 35th birthday. I promised myself this back 3 years ago when we first started getting healthy. I want to look better and feel better and be better than I was a 25, and especially better than I was at 15. For some people that might seem backwards, but I know I have struggled with my weight since I was 14, I knew before that, that I was not the petite little girl all my friends were, but for the most part during the horrid teenage years I was content to be who I was, I knew I was a little over weight but I didn't worry too much, I have always loved to be active, but I didn't watch the food I ate so I always felt like I was where I "should" be.  Today I know differently, by working hard, by practicing my eating techniques, by not being afraid I might offend someone when I choose a healthy choice, both A and I made huge leaps and bounds in our personal appearance and our self images.  We want to be healthy and help our children to not be emotionally connected to food like we are.

Rambling

I was on pintrist, looking for some new recipes, there is a whole categories for nutritarians, I was so excited. But I wandered and looked at a few posts and I felt the challenge to really give myself a CHALLENGE! My birthday is now basically 21 days away. It's not a lot of time to make huge changes, but it is enough time to get serious. I am going to blog everyday, report our progress and maybe some cute kids stuff too.  I don't want to disappoint myself, I want to be able to fit into the "goal" pants I bought after my first training session, 18 months ago, when my trainer said dont focus on a weight focus on a size, I went to the store bought a pair of size 8 pants and that has been my goal from the beginning, I want to wear them on my birthday! 

So here is to my 21 day challenge. I hope that for those of you still following along, you will give encouragement and words of wisdom as you see fit, if you get bored I promise this isn't going to turn into one of those self help blogs and hopefully it will get me back into the habit and cute kids will appear more often.