This Is It...Who's With Me?

I’ve decided to use this blog to document my diet and fitness adventures as I attempt to lose inches, tone up, and eventually look like Marisa Miller. Hey, a girl can dream, right?

I recently came across a fitness blog written by Toronto Star columnist David Bruser, who is fantastically sarcastic and hilariously true in his accounts of entering the world of fitness. He’s my inspiration to start chronicling my own endeavours, if only to coerce my readers (read: my family) to read his blog. It really is that good. And, okay, I won’t lie, I have a bit of a crush on him. He’s cute, funny, sarcastic, and he can write well – what’s not to like? But I digress…

Two of my work friends and I have decided to make an honest attempt at eating well and exercising in order to lose weight, feel better about ourselves, and maybe show up a few guys that snubbed us in the past. In order to really devote myself to this lifestyle change, I need to have some sort of accountability, and this blog seems to be a good way to get that. Granted, I have my girlfriends to talk to, but writing down my trials, tribulations, and successes is a good motivator and a good way to cure the writing bug that I’ve had since graduating from my English Literature program and starting my job as a Data Analyst. My ideal job would be one where I could write all day about things that interest me (that was a hint to anyone who reads this and has ties to a newspaper or magazine that is looking for a new columnist…just sayin’).

Along with my fitness and diet issues, my posts will also chronicle my efforts to quit chocolate. I know, chocolate? Just stop eating it, right? Not so much. There’s definitely an addictive quality to chocolate and I am a full fledged addict. Hi, I’m Bella, and I’m a chocoholic.

It’s not going to be easy but I’m hoping that, with this blog, I’ll be stronger and more determined to quit chocolate if I’m held accountable by my readers. I don’t hope to be perfect and, as Bruser states, I don’t hope to quit gracefully, I just want to quit.

So, that’s my plan thus far. I know it won’t be easy, but it WILL be worth it. I’ve got two, maybe three, vacations coming up in 2010 – Vancouver, a Caribbean cruise, and a Contiki tour of Scandinavia and Russia. I do NOT want to be the fat one on those vacations, trying to figure out ways to get thin, or wishing I was one of those fit, beautiful girls that always plague my vacations. I want to be one.

God damnit, I will be one.

Here goes nothing.

Love,

Bella