Starting.....Just start!

Let me start with a quote a good friend shared with me last school year...."Don't dig a hole you might have to fill in later."  Seems to fit.....I swore I would never blog!  Who has time to blog?  Well, I owe my dear friend Abbey an apology...here I am.  Although I swore I would never do this, as you grow you sometimes realize that what you couldn't understand is exactly what you needed.

To make a long story short....after years of success and then failure at weight loss and management...I'm willing to try anything!  I have EVERY excuse lined out to a tee after years of practice, so beware!  More detail: I'm a single mom of 2 amazing boys, full time school teacher, do volunteer work in the community and have a wide variety of friends all over the world I try to keep in touch with.  (And try to do some dating in there once in a while to remind me I'm an adult!)  Easy excuses everywhere!

Why now?  Why blog about all this?  Well, another great friend, Caroline and her husband told me the plan they are doing and has worked for Pete...The 4-Hour Body.  Let me also say, that this came at a time when my younger sister, who is also my best friend, has managed to work her tail off to be the smallest size she has ever been and look amazing! "I don't have time."  "I don't have the money."  "I just moved."  "I'm too tired." "Counting calories just reminds me how bad I am!" And the list goes on and on and on and on.....

In thinking about blogging my weight loss to help me stay on track and help my friends harass me into staying on track, I remembered a time when Abbey also told me I should blog about being a single mom.  That I could help others so they see they are not alone!  She is quite a visionary whom I love!  I don't think I have anything great to offer but why not share!  This is just my new way of journaling...and laughing with tears at times!

So let me just say, as I start this new way of sharing my craziness, I have no idea what I'm doing. But something tells me Im not alone.