One of many workout selfies you’ll get to witness if you follow my journey!

Hey party people!  Welcome to my new blog!  Here is where I’ll be sharing my health and fitness journey.  It’s gonna be preeeettty awesome, so I highly recommend you read and share with all your friends. It’s going to be an amazing show.

As of today, my goal is to lose 65lbs.  SIXTY FIVE.  Yeeeah, so this is gonna take a while.  Come along for the ride as I let Beachbody trainers kick my butt back into shape while I help others do the same.  OHHHHHH yes. That’s right my friends, I’m officially a Beachbody Coach and there ain’t nothing you can do about it!! Ha!

There’ll probably be videos of me doing burpees at some point…if I can ever actually DO a burpee.  There will be sweat and pulled muscles, maybe some complaining about how freaking hard it is to lose weight especially in your 40’s, there’ll be me struggling to avoid asking my husband if we can “just order a pizza” or “can you go get us some wine?” There will definitely be pictures of me holding shakes with a big ‘ol smile on my face and tons of selfies of myself in workout gear with dated captions and weight loss results.  I mean who WOULDN’T want to see that, right?  RIGHT?

In all seriousness, this is my life.  It was time to change before I let worry and stress destroy me. I’m lost and it’s time to get found.  I’m tired of being tired.  I’m sick of wearing the same men’s t-shirts and sweatpants and shorts because girl clothes don’t fit right.  I’m so freaking over it.  And mostly I’m tired of feeling sad.  Life handed me some challenges I didn’t expect.  Ones that are hard on the heart and tough on the mind.  But letting it weigh me down is hurting me so much.  I’m at the bottom of a really big mountain and I have to get to the top.

March 23, 2016 I decided it was time to make the first step upwards and start to exercise every day.  I chose to do an oldie but goodie…Slim in 6 with Miss Debbie Siebers.  I had ordered it back in 2002 when I had first moved to NYC.  Those infomercials were just as intriguing then as they are now! 🙂 I didn’t want to go TOO crazy since I hadn’t been consistently active in about 5 years, so I decided that I wouldn’t change my diet too drastically.  Baby steps. I basically cut out my gallons of Coffee-mate Italian Sweet Cream creamer and cut back big time on the vino and late night snacking.  I didn’t really watch portions at all. BUT I worked out almost every day.  The most consistent I’ve been in years. And guess what?  I hardly lost any weight at all. Womp wooooomp.

Me during week one of Slim in 6.
Ain’t no WAY I’m posting a full view fat “before” pic until I get a decent result “after” pic to post next to it!

The first 5 weeks I yo-yo’d between my starting weight and 2-3 pounds less, but nothing was really happening.  Well, if that isn’t just the crappiest feeling.  To be busting your butt and doing WAY more activity than you’ve done in forever, only to be like…um, what the heck?  WHY AM I NOT LOSING A MILLION POUNDS RIGHT NOW?!!!

Sooooo, that’s when I realized the memes are right.

In the end, I lost 5lbs in 6 weeks and a couple inches here and there.

Now I’m ready to take the portion control bull by the horns.  I’m going to let Autumn Calabrese and her 21 Day Fix be my next step upwards.  I’m still waiting for the dvds, my rainbow colored portion containers and Shakeology to be delivered (should be here tomorrow), but in the meantime, I got a free trial of Beachbody OnDemand so I was able to start the workouts within 24 hours of ordering! Weeeee!

Day one of 21 Day Fix with obligatory sweaty, red workout face.

Today is Day 3 for me, so I gotta run and do Lower Fix so my legs feel like rubber juuuuust in time to pick up Edward from school. 🙂

So c’mon in and follow my journey.  Sit back and relax.  No, wait, don’t sit.  Get up!  Move!  Better yet, join me!  Click the “Contact” link  and we can do this together! Don’t do what I’ve done and let it get so out of hand that you’ve got to climb Mount Everest. Let my story be your reason to NOT EAT THE DORITOS!  (even though they’re delicious).

PS: you might notice that I STARTED writing this post on May 9th.  Took me 4 days to have the courage to share it.  Gahhhh!  I’m scared! lol!  Hold me!