Saturday, February 19, 2011

To Bikini or Mumu?


What do you do when you have a degree in kinesiology, earn a living as a personal trainer, yet weigh more today than you did after giving birth to 3 children in 4 years?

Knowing what to do and actually doing it can be a difficult choice.

I know what to do. I know how to fix this. What I need is motivation and accountability.

Sooooo, recently I booked a trip to a swanky, adults only hotel in Mexico. The type of hotel you don't wear a frumpy Mom-suit by the pool. We are talking brazilian string bikinis. Ugh!!!! Hence, MOTIVATION.

Kicking my own ass isn't a problem. I will gladly exercise until the cows come home. What I struggle with is.... how should I put this... being happy (which I blame solely on my husband). Before I met him, I was a struggling, single mother of young children who weighed 25 pounds less than this married mother of teenagers. No lie. 25 freaking pounds!!!! When I am miserable, I don't eat. When I am happy, I LOVE to eat. So all of this happy, wining and dining stuff has landed me with a body I don't even recognize.

Enough is enough!!

As of today, I have decided to bare it all (and I am not talking skin). I am inviting you on my no holds barred journey to squeeze back into a bikini and not hide under a mumu in Mexico. I pledge to document daily the good, the bad, and most certainly the ugly. Please, please, please.... help keep me ACCOUNTABLE for my actions. I hate disappointing anyone. Deal?

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