Inspiration!

I started this blog for a number of reasons. First and foremost, for myself. This blog has been a tremendous tool for me, serving as a place of accountability and report. I can look back at all of my diet and exercise choices for the past 3 months, which is pretty amazing! I can use this information to pinpoint patterns, negative and positive. seeing the "notes" section every day allows me to keep track of my moods, of other issues, emotional or other, that affect my health and well-being.

I also started this blog to be a place where my family and friends could come for support. I know our daily food logs aren't the most exciting read, but we do try to add more substantial posts here and there about recipes, workout music, foods we love, and exercises we are trying. If you scroll down on the right side of the blog you will see links to posts "tagged" under special headings instead of having to rummage through all of our daily food logs.

Recently I have discovered that some amazing conversations with my friends and family members have opened up around health and wellness. Now, I don't know if these things would have happened anyways, but I would like to think that in being publicly open about eating and exercising I have thus made myself more open to these conversations. I think I have said in a previous post that I think there is a strange stigma against talking too much about these things. That there exists some sort of "don't ask don't tell" around the gym- that you should just do it and shut up and just prance around like you were born with it.

Yeah, screw that!

So anyways... I am talking all over about it. Almost every conversation I have with my sister involves talking about something health related- she has recently started doing yoga again and walking her kids to school. I talked to my dad the other day who has started dieting and tried to share some of my favorite snacks with him (trying to get him off pre-sweetened yogurts and into Greek style!) One of my good buddies just joined a gym and she decided to text me every time she goes so she has someone to be accountable to. Isn't that awesome? Recently I joined my cousin's gym for a week just so I could go with her as she gets back into the swing of things, and showed her some of my favorite weight machines (the dip and chin-up assist!) Today I shared this blog with my brother, who is apparently getting back into an exercise routine. I have shared this blog with my mom, who is trying to jump-start her routine using Weight Watchers, and I have given my brother the instructions to show my mom how to "bookmark" my blog so she can read it every day.

All of this makes me SO HAPPY. I cannot even explain how happy I am to have so many people in my life working towards their health! These are all people I LOVE, and in loving them I want them all to be happy and healthy too.

That said, the one thing missing from this blog is conversation! I know there are some of you out there reading, some voyeurs, some the very people I just mentioned. When I have a down-n-out day it would be really nice to come on here and feel like we are not alone. So hey, if you have a minute, drop a comment here or there to let us know you are out there! We would love to have guest posts as well, so if there is some recipe, exercise, booty-moving music or tips we just have to know about, by all means let us know.

How can we better make this blog a community tool? We are all ears!

xoxox,

Robin