THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I STARTED A BLOG!!!!!!! Us ladies are NEVER EVER EVER ALONE!!! Five days ago when I declared war on my ass o’ plenty and challenged Shape magazine, I’ve been getting TONS of emails from other women supporting me AND joining me. One of my best friends, Erica, called me Wednesday night after reading my blog and said, “I’m doing this with you.” I have to say between the emails and Erica’s call, my first reaction was Mother of Crap, I really have to do this. I have to follow through, get my love humps off the sunken left cushion of my couch and freakin workout and lose weight. WHAT THE HELL HAVE I DONE?!?!?!? NOOOOOOO!!! ICE CREAM SANDWICHES SAVE ME!! Okay, that was dramatic… but it did happen that way. My next reaction was, I have people inspired and pumped up, I’m really going to do this. I’m 32 – I’ve been battling my weight for 12 years, it’s time for me to follow through and get to a place that makes me happy. Sporting a jelly donut may make my mouth happy, but my ass hasn’t talked to me for years.

Real quick – Erica and I met 8 years ago at a sports bar named Duffy’s when we were both in our 20′s and clueless. I had come to Chicago from Memphis, TN and Er trained me as a server. Our immediate bond was that we proclaimed every Monday the start of a new diet and finally losing our Chicago weight. Our mantra was THIS TIME IS FOR REAL!!!! WE’RE REALLY LOSING THE WEIGHT THIS TIME!!! IT’S HAPPENING. That was almost 8 years ago. So , yes, we’ve been struggling and announcing our dedication towards losing weight for that FREAKIN LONG!! I think the longest we went without falling off the wagon was a month, but when we fell, we fell hard into a river of booze and late-night tacos.

Okay – so back to now. Since challenging Shape and my promise to blog about the results every Sunday, I now have more than just the two of us holding me accountable which is pretty motivating. Erica and I are doing the July Natasha Beddingfield workout together. By the way, teaming up is something I highly recommend since we looked like total douche bags sweating over a magazine at Crunch in between sets and shouting, “Wait, how many do we do?” while rolling off the stability ball. Well… that was actually me rolling off the damn ball. IT WON’T STAY STILL!

SOOOO it’s Sunday and you know what that means… drum roll please….. my first week since cursing SHAPE and actually working out resulted in ….. 4 pounds! Take that Nicole Richie! And I actually ate too!

WOOHOOO! So SHAPE held their own this week… let’s see how the next week goes. Get your asses back here for updates, I may be in the hospital for a stability ball injury, but you can bet your mama’s fried chicken I’ll be bench pressing the nurse, because IT IS ON!!!!!!

Erica showing some skill on the side-lunge

Me attempting a girl-style push-up. I think I puked after this picture. I'm kidding... no I'm not.

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