Ha ha ha ha ha!

I'm kinda shocked right now. I completely forgot I even had this blog. It's been two years (less two days) since I wrote the first and only post and I have to admit I'm laughing at myself... wow, I didn't even get this one off the ground.

I still need to lose weight. I can't, for the life of me, remember or find that blog I referenced at the beginning of the first post. Quite a few things have changed since that first post was written. We (my DH and I) had a gym membership when I wrote that -- now we don't. We've moved twice since I wrote that... once in June '09 and again this year (also June).

In addition, I think it would be safe to say that my sweet hubs and I are going to have to approach the issue of our health separately... we definitely have some different ideas on the subject. *sigh*

On the 'good news' side of the coin, I've actually lost a little weight since December '08 -- about 30 pounds -- with a lot still left to lose (but I'm still happy about the direction of my progress, no matter the speed). Having just come off Thanksgiving, I'm pretty happy about the fact that my holiday 'gain' -- that so many seem to believe is *fate* -- has been .5 lbs (net) and I'm already back in the down/off position. :-)

I have a friend who has lost an AMAZING amount of weight -- over 100 lbs, I believe -- mostly by exercising, but eating well, too and competes in many races (10k, 1/2 marathons, triathlons) each year. I love reading her blog about the process and it does inspire me. A lot of my admiration for her comes from the fact that she's a 'regular' person -- normal (whatever that means) and has done SPECTACULAR things in fitness to improve her health, lose weight, and become a regular competitor in these cool sporting events. Now, please don't take my 'regular' terminology as an insult -- it's quite the contrary. What I mean is, she's not a celebrity, she's not rich beyond imagination (she has a job, works hard, has a family and social life, etc.) and manages to include good nutrition and physical training in her life. She CHOOSES to do it. She does it every day... she didn't have weight-loss surgery... she didn't become a spokesperson for a 'fad' diet product (and get it for free). She eats food (healthy food), works out every day, and still does life -- the way most people have to do it. Like I said... Normal. She's also completely extraordinary. She DOES it -- while a lot of us (me included) just think, talk, dream about it... make plans to do it... then, ultimately, we just don't... or we only 'kinda' do... you know what I mean.

Anyway, so there's the update. I'm doing better, little by little, and am headed in the right direction. I'm taking inspiration wherever I can and appreciating (especially) the examples of *real* people who are making their own success. I've lost some weight. I've got some more left to lose.

I'll post again... when I do. No promises. :-)

The First Day of the Rest of my Life

Greetings! I just found a really cool blog. It's called, er...I can't remember now, but I'm going to go back and find it and then I'll post the name of it here: [The name of the blog].

I found this gal through following links in my best friend's blog when she does "Muffin Tin Monday" - a blog carnival/gathering of Moms who serve one lunch (or more) per week in a muffin tin for fun...novelty...and a blog subject. They are very, very cute.

I would do it too, but 1) I'm not a Mom and 2) The only person I make lunch for is me...so I can't quite bring myself to be that silly and cheesy - even if I do, technically, have an 'audience' via the interweb. :-)

So, on to the purpose of my post (and of my new blog). Jenny, the above-mentioned best friend, is part of a family-based group that is getting healthy together called "Slimmin' with the Simmonds" but alas, it's private, so I can only be intrigued by the name. And, as I'm not in her family (the extended one upon which it's based, or otherwise) I can't really fanagle an invite. But...to further drive toward the point...through her blog today (reading MTM posts, even though it's Wednesday) I found another blog with MTM posted and then linked to another of that gal's blogs that was about weight loss. I didn't quite get the 'gist of it entirely, but there was a mention of 'surgery' so I don't know if it was weight-loss related surgery or another surgery that coincided with her weight-loss efforts...but I'm going to go back and check it out a little more thoroughly.

In the meantime, she had a 'chart' that tracked both her weight and BMI and all I could think about THAT was, "What a brave soul!" Then I realized, anyone who knows me IRL is not under the mistaken impression that I'm 'thin' anyway (and I doubt they think about my weight much at all -- except maybe to be concerned for me) and anyone who doesn't know me IRL (with the exception of dear relatives I've not been privileged to meet in person, yet) well...those other "not IRL" peoples' opinions really don't matter, I guess. So there it is.

I'm doing this. I'm going to find that 'chart' gadget and load it up here. (*sigh*) The Zombie (my dearly beloved) and I both need to turn in the direction of good health. We both haven't been very good about that. We both are feeling other effects from being so, ahem, weighed down. We have been marginally good about going to the gym -- we always seem to have a good 'burst' at the same time each year -- Fall. I'm not sure why that is, but we need to be more consistent.

Okay. That's my first post. I'm getting warmed up to this (still pretty nervous, though). I'm hoping I might even be able to get my little sister -- Harley Mama -- to join us. She's been doing really well but she, too, has a ways to go. Don't get me wrong, she's not in the kind of trouble we are but she's not 'there' yet, either. Maybe we could all help each other out. We'll see.

Take care!