A little more reason behind this blog.

Most people don’t know this about me but I am taking photography classes for shits and giggles. It’s something that I have always wanted to do and I actually enjoy it. It’s nice to get out of the house and do something productive, especially since its cold here in the DMV (DC, Maryland and VA for you out of town folks) and this is when I usually go into hibernation not to be seen until spring. Well Thursday night my professor asked us to decide what we wanted to do for our final project. Thinking of what to do for projects is ALWAYS difficult for me not to mention finding people who actually want to get their picture taken is a whole other issue. I was sitting there in class, still in my workout clothes from my sprint session that afternoon, and figured why not?

I started getting back into the workout mode back in October. I have access to FREE personal training through my office as well as a gym to use for free. I met with a trainer once and used his workout for about 6 weeks to get me started. It was the kick start that I needed. Since then I have gotten more motivated and my friends have even given me things to do, support and goals to work towards.

This year is a big year for me. Two of my really good friends and one of my cousins are getting married this year and  I will be turning 30 in April!!!!! Three decades old. For the last five years I have been telling myself that I am going to lose the weight I put on when I got back from Iraq by my next birthday. Although that goal has not been met in the past it will be met this year if it KILLS ME! I know that having a magic number is not realistic because muscle weighs more then fat blah blah blah. So I have completely surrendered the “magic, goal weight” idea to different goals. I want to be able to sit and not have anything fold (hello gut). I want to be able to run and not have anything jiggle in a nasty gross way (wobble wobble) . So screw what the scale says I want to have clothes that fit, get my 3 mile run time down to what it was in bootcamp, and do a pull-up with a 70 second flex arm hang.

SO HERE GOES!