Blogger Fail

Well, my blogging took a serious dump....here we are starting a new challenge and I haven't blogged for MONTHS!

Anywho, this challenge has a new set of people and I'm anxious to see how everything goes.

As for me, my life has been tough to say the least the last couple months.  I took an $1100 per month decrease in budget, so I had to accommodate that.  One thing that I knew I COULD give up was the healthy food I spent several hundred dollars a month to eat.  I KNEW the change was only temporary and I just had to get the kids and I by for a couple months, so I'm swallowing my pride to say that we were frequent shoppers at two different local food pantries.  Now don't feel sorry for me, because it worked...we made it through and we're always stronger after these struggles.  That being said, my waist line suffered.  The cute jeans my honey bought me last summer don't fit anymore and I'm at a higher weight than I've been in MANY years.  I've been struggling with some digestion/stomach issues as well.  I'm convinced it was the major shock to my system from making such a drastic food consumption change, but the guys with the PhDs don't think that has anything to do with it, yet they can't give me an answer for the pain.  Colonoscopy is the next fun thing on my agenda...BLECH!

Anywho, I'm bag on the proverbial track now and headed in the right direction.  That being said, there are a couple motivators that are laid out in front of me.  Not just the money from the challenge, because money is not a huge motivator to me (weird right?), but there's a chance I may be able to photograph a wedding in Hawaii in a couple years and my sister, her boyfriend, me and my honey are hopefully planning an all inclusive Mexican getaway and who wants to feel muy gordo laying among the palm trees and swim up bars?  NOT ME!  So I'm attempting to channel my excitement for these potential adventures in to motivation to get in shape.  It's worked before right? (see My Story from the Home Page).

So let's get this party started!  Challengers ready? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!