Are You Ready to Shred?

My first link on the blog roll is to The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Pants. If you are on a weight loss journey and have not discovered them yet...go do it now! I have spent the last few weeks reading with interest and getting a ton of motivation from all of their posts.

I am joining their current weight loss challenge and look forward to starting the process of losing weight again. I've been pretty much stuck at 240 pounds for awhile now and I know it is because I am just not trying very hard. When I started working from home about 9 months ago all of the healthy lifestyle changes I had made went out the window. I threw myself full force into making money and digging us out of the financial hole we were suddely dropped into. As my focus drifted elsewhere my weight loss was derailed. Slowly the exercise dwindled down to nothing, the salads were replaced by comfort foods, and the scale crept up and up.

I remember when I was dropping weight and my pants were falling off. I felt toned and healthy, as if I could move and breathe like never before. I thought nothing of jumping out of bed and going for a three or four mile walk or running around the yard with the kids intstead of watching from the porch. It seems like just yesterday that I felt so good, but now here I sit miserable and feeling as if I can barely suck in my next breath.

I don't like sitting on the porch watching my kids play in the yard. I don't like getting off the trampoline because I know if I fall on one of them I am going to really hurt them. I just don't like where I am right now. This is beyond appearances and vanity. This is life and death. This is my self esteem on the line.

I am really glad I found The Sisterhood because I am so inspired by their journeys and all of the information they provide. It's time to get off the porch and run through the grass! My weight loss journey may have taken a detour, but it's now time to balance work and health.