Welcome!

After several friends suggested I start a blog on my journey to be healthy by 30, I am finally succumbing to the pressure.  :)  Please join me on this journey while I work to eat healthfully and exercise consistently to meet my goal and focus on being healthy for life. 

This all came about a year ago when:
A)  A bridesmaids dress I had ordered came in and wasn't even close to zipping.
B)  I could no longer keep up with my students when I was hiking on a class field trip.

This is not the person that I wanted to be and I felt sluggish and tired all the time.  I felt my confidence waning on a daily basis, something that is not okay in my job.  I need to be able to stand in front of a classroom and be a confident, excited, and outgoing person on a daily basis.  I promised myself that I would enter my 30's healthier than I entered my 20's.  In the past year, I have lost 43 pounds and gained so much knowledge about myself and what does and does not work for my body.  Oh, I not only ended up fitting into the dress by the wedding, I had to have it taken in (and even then, the dress wouldn't stay up!).

Current Challenge:
If you know me, you know that I like to challenge myself and to see where my limits lie.  This is my current focus.  I just finished with another semester and have nearly a month before starting to teach my summer class.  In this time, I need to prep of course, and I will be moving.  But, more than that, I am focusing on pushing myself physically. 

Pushing myself right now means running.  Running was always something that I hated and I never even finished the mile in school when I was a kid.  So why did I choose this as my challenge?  Because I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.  I've been working on this for about a month and...yesterday, I ran 2.75 miles!  My next run is planned for tomorrow and I'll let you know how it goes!