OH dear blog, and oh dear physique, I have neglected you so.

Allrighty folks, well I told you as much in the begining that I am not a blogger, not a writer....nope, just a gal looking to get back in shape who wanted to hold herself more accountable.  As you can see, it has been over 2 months since even I have checked in to see where I was!  Yikes!  Guess what?  In those two months I really have not made progress.

So yesterday I stumbled across a friends blog, where she is writing about her journey through weight loss (You can read about it here - She tweeted the title of her latest entry "Cheaters Never Lose, and Losers Never Cheat" that really caught my eye, and, Amanda dear, KUDOS to you.)  She is documenting her journey each and every day with a commentary on her diet (photos included!), how she is feeling, and a photo of the day.  She started on New Years Day and is down almost 20 pounds!  Can I get a Wahoooooooooooo?!?!?!  (I would also like to state for the record that I wish I were clever enough to come up with that name!  I sure hope when she gets down to her goal, the fruit inspired tech company pays her oodles for the trademark, and offers her an endorsment deal for their new foray into tech inspired weightloss!!! )

After reading Amandas blog I am even more driven and motivated.  The "photo of the day" she is taking will be used to create a photo timeline montage and I just LOVE that idea!  So much so that I think I may do the same thing....I am neither driven enough nor brave enough to post those photos each and every day on my own blog as she is doing, but I want to do the same thing so I have something to look at and remind myself when I get there.

Remember how I mentioned before that I have been avoiding mirrors and scales for a long time?  Well, after reading Amandas blog I did step on a scale, and was faced with the horribly shocking reality that I am in fact 15 pounds H E A V I E R than I was on the day I was admitted into the hospital to deliver my now 6 year old!!  Yes, folks, I am that much bigger than I was at 36 weeks pregnant!  can I get a sypmathetic Wowza! 

So....armed with this new knowledge of where I am, and where I need to go, I recommit myself to this process - not relying on blog readers to keep me on track, but myself.....thanks to another blogging friend, Kristin, I have been introudced to a fantastic website, My Fitness Pal that tracks your progress along by coutnting all of your calories for you during the day.  I have gotten better at keeping my calories where they need to be, but it was a real eye opener to see how much I really would consume in an average day! 

So here's to our health, and our committments, and our journeys!  Amanda and Kristin, I am proud of what you are doing, and what you have already accomplished!  I will follow along with your efforts and cheer you on, encouraging you and understanding the inevitable roadblocks we will all face, because I will be tackling them with you.  And.....perhaps, just maybe, the world will be a lighter better place because of our successes!  Wouldn't that make it all worth it?!?

XO XO XO
Megan

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....