this is me...

    Well Hello! You must be just as bored as I was when I wrote this blog if you are now reading it, lol. Ok just kidding, but not really because that is how this blog idea was started, I...get...bored. So with a little encouragement I have decided to blog. About what?? Well health, fitness, my weight loss, the dumb cotton wood tree in the back yard that covers my yard in white fuzz every spring, exercise, my family, what EVER it is that I feel I need to talk about on a given day.

   On a more serious note I am also using this as an accountability tool to finish a journey I started in January of 2009. At that time I was 346 pounnds and very unhealth. I decided I needed to make a change, not like I hadn't ever made this attempt before but for some reason I was actually going somewhere with it this time. With strictly diet, exercise and learning about food and my body I began to lose weight. I was down a total of 140 pounds (206) in October of 2011, I maintained this for some time and then for the 3rd time I quit smoking and gained back 20 pounds. Currently yes I am at 226 with the desire to be at 170 before Christmas. So it is time to finish what I started and help others along the way. Yes sometimes I can be a little blunt, a little offensive, a little too loud and even a little quiet but I will promise you this...I will be honest, I will give 100% and I will do my best to help ANYONE that has the courage to reach out and ask. So wiggle yourself into the sports bra (the tighter it is the tighter it holds them puppies), no I'm not really southeren and I know that was bad grammer but it sounded like the right thing to say, pull up the spandex(again the tighter it is the better job it does at keeping the thighs from clapping and the obscene farting noises that sneak out from your flopping belly, no your not the only one that this happens to and yes I know from experience, if you see me working out it is in my tight pants and I sure as heck don't look like J-lo from the back side...yet;) and lace up those sneakers!

Tomorrow is a new day and I have nailed diet and exercise this week, My goal for tomorrow is to maintain that, one day at a time 1500-1700 calories and 60 minutes of sweat!!

Cassie