Just take the 1st Step

Breathe, Breathe… I can’t believe I actually decided to take a step towards trying to live a better life style. Now I must admit this week will not be my official start date, although I signed up for work a challenge. At my company there is a challenge to live a healthier lifestyle and we have 6 months to hit our targets we have set for ourselves, people can win a $1000. I am in no way trying to win the $1000 because I did not make leaps and bound commitments for the next 6 months. We had 4 categories which were nutrition/eating well, manage stress, exercise/fitness, and endurance athlete. I selected 3 categories which were nutrition/eating well, manage stress, and exercise/fitness. Here is what I wrote I wanted to do over the next 6 months.
My goal is to just be active and begin the process to get into shape. I will play my Kinect doing the Zumba exercise at least 3 times per week for a minimum of 30 minutes. This will also mean that I will incorporate better eating habits, meaning portion control and having water in my diet, starting out with 33 ounces of water and working to 66 by the end of the 6 months. I will strive to lose 20 pounds with these minor changes. With these targets it will help reduce my stress because it will allow me to think of myself so that in the end I can be better for others.
We will have 4 checks and the last one is in March so two months before my birthday. I am saying this will not be my official start date because I have plans that will start this off all wrong. I want to start new next week with this; this challenge is to start of little. Many of my peers have signed up and they made their own goals. My best friend knows I signed up, shoot I sent her the email that says she should sign up too. She doesn’t know what my goals are but I told her the categories I did. I am sitting here thinking what is going to make this different, you say this all the time and nothing changes. Your post the other day was about talk is cheap, this again is cheap talk. I am really hoping and what I need to be doing is praying that this is not yet again cheap talk.
Ok Y’all wish me luck and if you pray, pray that I lift myself up and support myself like I do in other aspects in my life. I can do this and it is ok for the journey to be slow and long!!

I am attaching my profile pic I loaded for the work challenge; I don’t have a measuring tape at work so I don’t have my measurements but we will be able to see if there is any difference over the next 6 months. Plus here is to more blog post!