At the Start

I should include a warning with this post: beware, ugliness ahead. You see, I like using the camera because it usually keeps me OUT of the pictures. But Tonya caught me when we were out target shooting on Labor Day, and it's really the only BEFORE picture I can find - because I stay out of pictures on purpose.

Anyway, I gave this some thought, and yes, this profile works just fine - it shows my large posterior and my hanging fatty arms and my large belly.

And it will be a fine BEFORE picture, even if I have a gun in my hand.

And, NO, I'm not pointing it at a picture of me. I actually like myself better right now than I probably have my entire life. I love being a mom and a grandma. I am grateful to be able to live in such an awesome nation and state and city and neighborhood. I love the things I can do, and the people I know, and the life I am living.

Actually, there is only one thing I'm not totally happy with and that is my body. Well, I think God gave me a very wonderful body. What I'm not happy with are the pounds I have packed onto it, and what that is doing to my health.

So today is the day the company "Biggest Loser" contest begins. I've put my $ into the pot and will start today working on it. Because the award is going to the largest percentage of body weight lost, I realize that it would probably be an unhealthy goal for me to shoot for being an actual winner in the contest (10% of huge is too huge). So I'm going for my own goals and aiming for my own achievements, but this contest gives me a great opportunity to work on similar goals with a lot of other wonderful people in the workplace, and that will be fun! I think.

I will on occasion over the next 16 weeks (contest ends on Jan. 4, 2010) post my successes and bemoan my failures (because I've been around a few times - I know there will be those, too) on this blog.

What I'm aiming for is blood sugars under control and a 16-pound thinner profile to begin the new year with.

Those are two goals I can live with!

Now, I've spent enough time on the computer. Time to go exercise (i.e., mow the lawn).