Here goes...

Woohoo! First blog entry!

I'll start with an announcement that I have started going to the gym just yesterday!

**crickets**

Okay, nothing spectacular for some but this is a GINORMOUS deal for me. I have been at least 35 lbs overweight for the past six years and it's high time I do something about it. The turning point was actually on June 4th this year, on my birthday. What was a rather dull birthday was turned memorable when my own mother's gift to me was a weighing scale. That said a lot. That very day I gave up eating meat, er, red meat, er, every animal except fish and other seafoods. I'll work on being truly vegetarian later. Small steps, people! Vowed to eat lots more fruits and veggies. And I did just that! Now on my third month, I actually lost 11 pounds!

But of course, eating right just isn't enough. I noticed as I slowly shed those pounds, my arms, flabby and saggy to begin with, ended up a little saggier. Madonna, I'm truly not. Same goes for my tummy. And the cellulites all over my thighs? Eeewww. Worse than ever. A friend, whose family owns a badminton court, invited me to play with her. Riiiight. Don't do sports. Watch them? Sports with hunky players: yes, please. Play them? A resounding NO!...unless i get to play with the hunky players? Ha! Most probably not. Fortunately (hehe), this friend also sucks at badminton, and since she also wants to lose weight we decided to sign up for aerobics and weight training.

So. Yesterday was the first day, and aside from that awful moment with me dropping my blood sugar level and my now aching body, I say, not bad. Kinda fun muttering those expletives during those god-awful crunches and lunges. Well, we'll see. We'll see.