My morning mantra

I’m not overweight by any means.  Unfortunately I’m not fit. Before I got married, I would lay in bed every morning and think the following:

GET OUT OF BED YOU LAZY PIECE OF CRAP! Why can’t you get out of bed? DO IT!

It kind of worked, after about a month of yelling at myself, I did manage to roll out of bed and do some morning yoga. I also, through a combination of  sheer fear of bad photos and Sex In the City re-runs, managed to get in an evening workout on the treadmill. That was 5 years ago, and unfortunately I no longer have the threat of wedding photos hanging over my head.

I feel partially guilty starting this blog. I’m not supposed to care about my weight. I should be a confident woman and not succumb to the media’s propaganda about what a woman should look like.

A size healthy

Like I said, I am technically not that over weight. But flipping through an old magazine I ran across Queen Latifah’s Jenny Craig’s ad, and it made me think. Almost anyone can be stick skinny, with flat abs and fit into a size 2 jean, but not everyone is really fit, or healthy. Eating carrots and cottage cheese, will definitely accomplish the skinny goal, but at what cost?

I want to be able to enjoy the outdoors, go for a run, finish a 5k and say I accomplished something. I want to come home at the end of the day with energy, not to a bag of peanut M&Ms. I want my shoulders to not ache with stiffness, my back to hunch due to my bad posture and my poor abs, and I would be lying if I didn’t say I want to look like Demi Moore when I’m her age.  So here’s to a happier, healthier, and hotter looking me.  I hope all of you will help keep me motivated, get me off my butt, and hopefully you’ll get to your size healthy too!

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