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I have gone up and I have gone down. I have been blonde, red and brunette (and when much younger all sorts of colors that could only be summed up as having a crayon throw up on your hair). I am a creature of the NOW culture where you can have anything and everything. The problem with that is that its caught up with me.

Because of this lifestyle and now culture; I'm the barer of stretchmarks (without the title of being a heroic mother who's earned her stripes... I hate that saying), I have frizzy burnt out hair that's short and my body thinks I've picked up the next world war against it.  With all of those defenses up I've got to find a way to beat my body and mind into submission so that I can go to the beach without wondering what jokes people have come up with today about Shamu or how to "free Willy" back into the wild.

To start my journey I have decided to share this with all of you. Not only will I make you laugh, cry and possibly (painfully) have diet coke shoot out your nose; I hope to inspire others to have the courage to change regardless of how many times you've failed.

I've failed but I sure haven't given up yet and I have no intention. In the past either I wasn't committed or starving wasn't in the cards for a big girl like me; I know that I have to try something new because my old way of doing things has not worked right for me. Yet. 

Today I ordered the Bodymedia Link. For those of you that don't know what this is... I suggest goggling it. For me this is going to be a tool that I think will help me out big time. I'm a very competitive person and this new tool will allow me to compete with myself (and I'll be damned if I don't win). It'll log all of my calories consumed, burnt and my sleep cycle. Those are 3 very important things for weight loss and I am so excited to start.

My Link armband should be here in about five days, which to a big girl means... I've got five days to drink wine, have fun and eat out ;)  I know... those are 3 things that have gotten me to where I am today... but hey I did a 5k walk and went swimming for about 30mins. A girl like me deserves a little fun after all that ;)

The first post...

Oh where oh where to start...?

Today I've committed to a plan. It may not be the best but I am sure it's not the worst. Those of you that would like to travel with me down this road of health and self discovery are more then welcome to read along as I struggle, whine, laugh and succeed!

I'm a confessed clutz so I'm sure that I will make this journey an interesting one ;)