NO Stories!

A couple weeks ago I received an e-mail from Lindsey asking me if I would like to blog for Rough-Fit. She stated that it would be a great way to track my challenges and progress of moving closer towards my goal…a goal I’ve had since I started RF over a year ago. You know - that goal of me losing 20lbs and being Fabulous and Forty. Well Forty came and went, I’m actually 41 now. However I can’t say I’m as fabulous as I want to be because I’m still trying to lose those same 20lbs! I readily and excitedly accepted Lindsey’s offer to blog. What a great way to discover why I haven’t reached my goal. What exactly is stopping me? Why can I not seem to get my act in gear to get these darn lbs off for good!? I immediately started thinking of stories I wanted to share of my struggles and tribulations of my weight loss journey or lack thereof.

I had so many stories, they were flooding my head! I would drive in the car and think of one, I would be lying in bed at night and think of another, I would be in the shower and another would come to mind. Stories of what diets I had tried, fitness routines I had started, journals I had abandoned, books I had purchased, foods I had bought, vitamins I had bought, weight loss pills I had bought…you get the picture…I had so many stories!!

Then Lindsey asked me last week if we could meet on Monday after class to discuss my blogging. I told her absolutely we could and that I was already thinking of so many stories to blog about! When we met, Lindsey told me she laughed when she read my e-mail that I had all these stories. She said she was laughing because this blog is going to be a blog about NO stories! What??? Hold the press, or should I say keyboard! How could I tell NO stories? How could I write about nothing? How I could I entertain anyone? Why would anyone tune in to a blog that was about nothing? Then she further explained and it dawned on me - she’s right! (Okay, we all know 98% of the time she is right! Damn!) Why would anyone want to read or listen to me complain and whine about all of my half-ass attempts to lose weight and get fit? I mean you all hear it from me firsthand at 6am every morning. All the whining, complaining and excuses that early in the morning. If you can’t tolerate me at class why the hell would you take even a few minutes out of your busy day to come read a load of my crap!? I mean how could that inspire anyone? How could that help anyone? How would anyone find that remotely entertaining? How foolish I was to think I had so much good material! LOL!

So there you go…now you know why this is a blog about NO stories! It’s going to be a blog about nothing…nothing that is going to stand in my way this month of achieving my goals. Nothing that is going to get in my way of making myself a priority. No matter what the outcome is at the end of the month, no matter how many lbs actually fall off of me, this will be a blog about nothing standing in my way of me working on me! I hope you will stay tuned for the next 30 days (c’mon on now, you know how I love an audience!). I truly think I’ll even inspire a few of you…Yep, me, inspire! Imagine that, Princess with all the stories has nothing to talk about, except what I’m actually doing to achieve my goals!
See you in the morning!

P.S. You’re wondering what I did today? I logged my calories and stayed under 1400. I had no bites and licks and I attended class. Also, I am publically vowing to not drink any alcohol for the next two weeks. So there ya go!!