So I have been wanting to start a blog for a while now. I just didn't know what I wanted to write about...marriage, the state of Black relationships, family, photography, etc. So after joining hundreds of others at the gym yesterday, it hit me as I was briskly walking on the treadmill. As I excitedly came home and told D about my idea to blog about my exercise and food journal, he suggested that we make it a competition. We have competed before when it came to working out. We had to put money in a jar each time we worked out and we had to put even more money in on the days we didn't work out. We haven't discussed the details of this current wager, I just know that I want to come out looking better than ever and more importantly being healthier.
Almost two (gee, has it been that long?!?!) years ago, I decided to get on the exercise bandwagon because I was getting married on the beautiful, sunny beach in the Bahamas and we were also going on a cruise, so I wanted to wear a bikini for the first time in years. I began early on in 2009 by eating better and working out on my Wii. In March, I joined a boot camp which was the best decision that I had made concerning exercise and weight loss. I also contribute my 30 pound weight loss to the fact that I didn't have a real job (I was working odds and ends), so I was poor and saving any money I got for the wedding. Because of that, we did not eat out very often. But back to the boot camp; it was seriously the best thing! I hate that we moved and I have not been able to find anything like it since then.
So here I am now in 2011 trying to remember some of the things I learned in boot camp about healthy eating and exercising. I am committed to doing those things again but for the rest of my life. I think I looked at that time as only a temporary time, like oh, just let me look skinny for my wedding and then its over after that. And I quickly gained all the weight, plus some back over the past year. Like I said, its about life changing choices not temporary choices, so here we go!!!
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