Let's get it started!

Ok, so I looked in the mirror the other day and I didn't recognize myself (yes this is not the first time it's happened to me). Summer is less than three months away and I'm not about to take my shirt off! To know me is to know that I probably have all the knowledge I need to change this, but for some reason I keep coming back to this place. Well, I'm ready to shed it off once and for all and this time I'm asking for help. The kind of help I want isn't for someone to do it for me but to do it with me. So I'm trying a new approach this time around. I want to create a community of people (I don't care if it's 3 or 300) who share the same goal as I do: To get in shape and stay that way. There are a number of good methods I've learned about over the years from training regimens to dietary methods that can all contribute to a leaner and healthier body so I'll be sharing a lot of that in this blog, but I also want others to post about their thoughts, ideas, successes, challenges, and anything else that is a part of this quest for health. I'm making a commitment to you today that I will follow through with my diet and exercise program (while rehabing my elbow in the process) and that I will also follow through on posting new information on this blog. So who's with me? Who is ready to make 2011 the year that we finally say good-bye to being fat and making excuses?