Fresh Start

You may thing I am just following the crowd by starting up my diet and exercise on January 1st. Well this is not a new years resolution, it is a fresh start that is following a hearty holiday season. I will admit that 2010 started off great with my diet and going to the gym was a daily occurrence.  Slowly I started to slacked off then I threw myself a curve ball and started working the night shift which caused me to be very tired at all times throughout the day so I would skip the gym and follow that up with nightly runs (I mean drives) to Jack in the Box. Bad combination all the way around! I felt my health and life slowly turning into a pile of nothingness. I knew I had to change everything and QUICK! I switch schedules and then boom the holidays hit, I knew this was not the time to attempt any sort of diet. I merely stuck to portion control and prayers that I didn't gain back the weight I had kept off the last 2 years. Well the holidays are over and so are my excuses!

Yesterday while at the gym I decided to make my goals even more public and join the Golds Gym Challenge. Again this is a 12 week challenge that I will officially begin on January 8th. At that time I will be weighed, measured, pinched, and photographed in my current state. And for the first time these pictures will not only be seen by me and my immediate family. They are going to be seen by total strangers! As my mom would say, "good thing you have never been shy." January 8th is the day that this part of my journey will officially begin and you can bet that I will have pictures for the world to see. Here are my pictures from last year at this time when I entered into a competition for my workplace. This is the beginning photo and I promise you the end photos were not much different. If anything I may have had a better tan to cover it all up! :-)

December 2009