It probably all started with the J-Hud WW commercial I saw during Dr. Phil.....

But here I am on the eve of my 29th birthday and I am just not happy with the way my body looks and I am going to try to do a big shape-up before I turn 30 next October. The idea came to me while walking my incredibly spoiled and incredibly loving pitbull Wiggles around the neighborhood. I think my bad lifestyle choices have actually rubbed off on the dog because she has started to gain a ton of weight too! So I started to think: What if I start a blog counting down until I turn 30 and also counting down the pounds!

I think I am stuck in that weird limbo where walking down the street I think I look good until I catch a glance of myself in a store window or in the bathroom mirror at work! I am reminded of how I have lost control of my body and how it is negatively affecting my health. I am having trouble sleeping at night and have noticed that I am losing my breath walking into work some mornings. I had back surgery in January and have been horrible because I have gained probably a good 15 pounds since then when I should have been getting into shape because I was starting to feel better. (I had a herniated disc that was horribly inflamed and the surgery was the last ditch effort to do something to get relief!)

The most frustrating thing is that I know how to lose weight and have a ton of tools that can help me. I have been on many different kinds of diets since high school and have countless work-out DVDs and VHS tapes (yes I still own a VCR-actually we have 3 of them in our house). I also had a wonderful trainer help me to shape up before my wedding last year. These tools are going to be the secret to my weight loss success!

Well I am starting to ramble and I am also getting tired! Now off to bed to wake up in the morning and enter the last year of my 20s!