What this is all about.

THIS IS NOT A THIGH GAP BLOG. I'm not here to tell you how to conform to unattainable and frankly unhealthy standards of beauty. If that's what you want, check out now. I'm here for me. I want to feel better about myself. Not my looks, but how I feel inside. I am sick of feeling sluggish and lazy and tired all the time. And if that means that I change on the outside too, then that's great. I would post to this blog if it was only myself reading it, and if I happen to motivate others while I do it, that's fantastic.
 You might think that I'm just a skinny girl who doesn't need to lose any weight. Thing number two about this blog. THIS IS NOT A WEIGHT LOSS BLOG. This is a blog about healthy lifestyle choices. I am a typical teenager. I eat like crap and I watch a lot of TV. I am trying to change my lifestyle and I hope you choose to as well. I hope to post cool links, yummy food and exercises that don't make me want to pull my hair out and cry in pain!

Last thing about my blog. I am ridiculously bad at keeping up with journaling type things, so I apologize in advance for bad posting  habits ;)

              I'm the one on the left :)

New goals for this school year

So guys, I'm coming up on my senior year of high school. Fast. That means new hair, new clothes and for me, I've decided to get in shape. I'm not fat, but I realized after sucking wind hiking up the same hill everyday at summer camp while everyone else basically sprinted up it (mind you they are crazy), I needed to start exercising regularly.

So I'm doing it! The new me will not just be a lazy couch potato eating cold pizza while her family is on vacation. 

Technically I started my goal yesterday with a little "interval training". I run with music. If I don't I die inside and get so bored I start doing math in my head. You always see those couch to 5k running plans, which are really good for me. But I don't carry a stop watch with me when I run. So I decided something. I was going to run for the whole song, then take 30 seconds at the beginning of the next song to walk. It worked! The intervals are different sizes, but it gave me the discipline to actually run most of the time instead of only when I saw people (seriously that's true and it's sad). Eventually I'll increase the distance bit by bit and then start shortening the walking sections. Hopefully at some point ill be able to run the whole time and not stop to walk on this giant hill in my neighborhood. If you are a beginning runner like myself, here's a really good training plan to get you back on track that I found on lovely ol' Pinterest.

Healthy eating is also on the agenda for my new life. I've been drinking more water which is really good, but the leftover pizza calls to me. I don't think I could ever totally give up junk food, but I'm going to start back up on my two non-healthy things a day. I've gotten pretty bad over the summer. I think last week I had a frosty from Wendy's and a bowl of ice cream every day. Plus snacks. 

I do better with motivation, so if anyone wants to join me on my quest to be fit I would love it! For awhile this will probably be updates on my goals and a few cool things I may learn in various health classes I'm taking this year for my degree. Bear with me as I get going again! I took a vacation hiatus but I should be posting a lot more frequently as school starts up again. Here's to senior year!