WooHoo! I DO!

Sorry this is late…Circumstances I couldn’t control..  BUT  WOOHOO!

I am so EXCITED! I am FLOATING!  I am COMMITTED!

I feel I have stepped into a dream come true! AND I can finally share the news!

The Bombshell pic today is titled, “Dreamer!”   How much more appropriate can it get!  That’s me. A dreamer, of sorts.  My silly, yet innocent antics contribute to that title.  My Young-in-Heart, childlike wonder.. My “Yellow Brick Road” philosophy on life.

Big Puppy and I were friends for quite awhile until one day I got a text message, late at night, that said, “Let’s Make a Fairy Tale!”  That was a little over 3 years ago.

I DO! are two of the strongest words there can be, for me.  For such a simple sentence, it often packs a whollup of so many emotions.  Full blown anxiety, fear-filled excuses, and DOUBT.  I realized, over the past year of blogging, that I have had a difficult time with those two little words when it comes to personal stuff.  I wish, I want, I try, I should, maybe, Oh, I’ll do it but I have to do it my way, with my own spin.  That left tons of wiggle room, for easy escape or less disappointment..lots of ways to not fully commit.

So, my big news today!  Are you ready?   Sitting down?  Bet you think you know!

No Mom, I did NOT run off and get married!

I made an even bigger commitment.  A full blown, lots of hard work, its JUST for me, 100% Commitment!

Remember when I told you a few months back, my goal of 50 by 50.  I view that as giving more than 100% to fully honor myself!

Learning to Love, Honor and Cherish Myself.  I am building a new, ever important, long lasting, for the rest of my life, relationship with me!

And that is EXACTLY what the next 6 months will be dedicated to.

NOW, the real news!….  READY?  Are you Sure?

It’s been SO difficult not to share this with you.  I was chosen as one of 12 women to particpate and blog for the WD SlimDown Project with Joy Bauer.”    I will be sharing  my journey of my eating plan, working with a nutritionist, and BLOGGING about it on WomansDay.com from August to January. 1 to 2 times a week until the end of the year.

I chose yesterday’s re-run  6 Reasons Why Blogging is Like Dieting because I am reminded daily why blogging and changing your lifestyle go hand in hand.  You absolutely NEVER know the impact of what you write may have on someone else!  This commitment appears to be a whirlwind romance that  started with one of Shelley’s  Friday Rambling from My Journey to Fit, just a little over a month ago.

But in all honesty, it truly started years ago with two angels…The one (You know who you are)that introduced me, encouraged me, gently pushed me, to contact an angel with a red pen! Suzette Standring Martinez.  (Suzette’s Book The Art of Column Writing is one of my handy reference bible books, you should check it out!)

Suzette published my first online article, A Writer’s New Frontier: Blogsphere over 5 years ago.  I took a break from blogs shortly after that, for several years, as a matter of fact,  because I got scared and made tons of excuses, (along with a LOT of other dreams, until I realized I missed it and I wanted more out of my life).  Maybe its my age, or something else, but I saw if I wanted to be happy, I needed to be happy with ME.  Learn to take care of myself, eat healthier, cook fresher, write, step out of my comfort zone, and fulfill my creative side; that boiled down to needing to write first AND share.  Share is the important ingredient.

I returned to blogging a year ago.  My writing is what shows me and guides me to the have the best relationship ever.  The relationship with me and those a little (or a lot) like me.  Finding a pathway to believe in myself, pull up the courage to “put myself out there, out of my shell and out of pretty journals. To honestly and truly  COMMIT!  Not only to all of you that read my words or ramblings, but to ME!

Writing, Weight Loss, and Self-Image go hand in hand, for me. My unique, personal style of seeing how things fit, life’s metaphors, allow me to see clearly, instead of taking time away, it gives me motivation, strength and support to commit, stay committed, and get the results I have wanted for way too many years.  And I need you! My support, my friends, my companions on this new path and course of action.  Stop by womansday.com this week and check out ALL the women! This is introduction week! Our introduction posts will be going up a few at a time, all week!

Don’t forget to do what you do best.  Support and comments!  Share the journey!

So YES! I DO!  I commit to Me! and this journey to a healthy lifestyle.  My Shoot for the Moon Goal  50 by 50!

What thing sits in the midst of the WANTS and WISHES that you could change with those two little words, I DO?

Let me know then head on over to Womansday.com to check out the WD SlimDown Project, Meet the Bloggers and say HI!