Day 1

August 14th- Okay sooo its 9am here in Chicago. I have been up since 730am and the most I have done is wash the dishes (which took literally 5 minutes) and make an english muffin. I then proceeded to lay in bed and flip through my newest Ikea catalog and Facebook IM some friends. As I sat on my bed being totally lazy, a guilt began to consume me. "What are you doing?" my subconscious taunted. I have been telling myself and that inner voice for weeks that the pregnant looking image that stares back at me could not truly be me. Ohhhhh but it is! No folks I am not pregnant, my waistline has just continued to expand from my penitent to not exercise. I am in a city where walking is a norm, soo come on what is my problem? While it is still warm I should totally be taking advantage of the lake front, that is no more then a block from my apartment. Nowwww back to this guilt, I gave in to it's taunts ("Just gonna sit there, if not gonna get skinny at this rate"..."Get up fattie"; yes my subconscious believes in name calling). I got up off my "Fattie" butt and did my ab workout, a 15 minute intense ab focused workout. I felt much better after doing so. Sure my abs screamed a couple times to stop but they need to ween themselves from this fatty blanket that covers them. So I am making a promise to myself (and to any of you reading) that I will at the very least make 15 minutes a day to do this workout. EVERYDAY!!! It's only 15 minutes, truly sad if I cant find that to dedicate to a svelte me!
Sooo just to have a document of my starting point here's a hideous picture of where this girl is starting. Hopefully I will soon be able to look back at this picture and laugh. For now I am finding it sad but it is reality soo time to face it!


Wow that is just embarrassing to me...but by sticking to my plan I will soon be able to post a much different picture, that I can be proud of! Wish me good luck guys, see you back here tomorrow!
-Oh and on a side note, going to get off the bus at the beginning of Michigan Ave and W-A-L-K to my destination instead of taking the bus to the front door.