Festively Plump...To Festively Svelt

We begin our journey weighing in together at a whopping total of 485.4lbs! Since today is the first day of 2013 we found it suitable to begin our arduous journey today.  Many preparations have been made including a complete clean out of the pantry, and a donation of cookies to our esteemed photographer and her family.  In our pilgrimage to the grocery store today, we filled up our cart full of protein, fruits and veggies! We turned a blind eye at the pop mountain in the middle of the aisle, scurried past the butter and cheese, and ignored the "Please Eat Me!" cries of the cookie aisle.  Armed with our new nourishment we left the store pleased with our first SUCCESS!

Things have gotten to the point there we just could not continue on our path of passive destruction of our bodies.  We have grown tired of having the bodies of those that are two, maybe even THREE times our age!  Every morning we are woken groggy, and everything hurts from our heads to our toes.  We attempt to avert our eyes from the slew of mirrors that don our rooms with fear of what we will see, yet again we fail to succeed and find ourselves disgusted.  The scale lies on the ground collecting dust, beckoning us to step on it so it can insult us with its harsh bluntly honest digits.

We know we have no one else to blame for those digits but ourselves.  It was our horrible habits, that lead us to continually taking in sugary pop, ordering in, and tons and tons of unhealthy baking.  It has already been decided since December that butter is banned from our home for months.  However, butter is not the only culprit in this dilemma.  So here we are paying the price for our bounty of horrible lifestyle decisions which is now leading us to a major lifestyle change!

But we digress... From here on out we will be cataloguing our struggles and our successes in our new lifestyle change.  Since we are two different individuals, we will be indulging from each of our own perspectives.  We will post a picture the First Tuesday of Every Month, with how much we have lost individually and with how much we weight together as a couple, sneakily hiding our individual weights ;) yeah, we are sneaky.  We look forward to you being a part of our journey and we hope to be an inspiration (given we succeed!) to many others.  Also we may need a little inspiration from you, courtesy of the comments section below each post, or a phone call if you must!  Annnnnnd we're spent!

The Show Must Go On,

Jocelyn and Mike