Hello World, Please Hold Me Accountable!

I have avoided looking in the mirror, and having my photo taken for some time.  And right here, right now, I am about to share the good, the bad and the downright ugly.  Yup.  Time for some painfully bare truth.

You see, I have a birthday coming up in a few months.  One of THOSE birthdays.  You know the ones, they start with a number and end in a Zero.  A big fat 0.  And that my friends, is sord of why I decided to start a blog.  You see, I am not a writer.  But I am something, rather I have become something.  I have become fat.  Yup.  Fat.  And, I really want to do something about it.  I want to eat better, move more, and shrink my ever expanding waistline before I hit that big birthday in February.  I am asking YOU dear reader to hold me accountable for it.  You see, it's sord of a psychological thing, I do not like to disappoint anyone, and surely I would disappoint you if I said I would do something and then failed to do it!

So....I tell you this, I will get in shape, and I will keep track of my progress (and sure to come setbacks) along with other random things that might pop into my mind on any given day so that YOU can hold me accountable for it!

Avoiding the mirrors and photos for a while has helped me hide from my softening, but when my brother was married in September I could not hide from the cameras, and I was not happy with what I saw. 

You see.....when I was about to turn 20, I looked like this:

 When I had just turned 30, I looked like this:

And, while in my mind I still look the photos above, in reality, as was proven to me from these photos taken at my brothers wedding, I actually look like this:

So there you have it.....including below the cleavage that might be confused with a cleft chin.  YIKES?  In this photo, you can actually sord of see a glimmer of the slimmer gal I used to be, but that is only because I am cleverly hiding the multiple chins I have accrued by sticking my chin out and looking up at the photographer.  Lovely.     

So, I will be working on this.  I have three and a half months ahead of me before my 40th birthday. 

Um.....wait a minute, did I really just admit that not only am I FAT but nearly 40 in my first ever blog post!?  YIKES!

Ok...so there you have it.   Please check in with me every once and a while to check my progress, and give me a kick in the butt if I am not sticking to the plan!!  In return, I will tell it like it is.....you will get the full story!!

So...until next time....