Here we go...Doing Life!!!

We are Hope and Crystal and we welcome you on our journey to weight loss and a happier/healthier life.  We hope that you follow us on this journey and hope that we can encourage you as we get encouragement from others along the way.  First of all we have to say thank you to Ben from Ben Does Life.  He has been an inspiration of what can be done if you just set your mind to it.  If you haven't read his story, hop over there to his blog and check it out.  Better yet, search for his video on YouTube. 

It is very moving and encouraging. 

We got together last week and after talking about how we are both at our heaviest and how unhappy we are with the way we look/feel, we decided to start this blog.  Okay, now on to why we decided to do this on such a public forum as a blog.  We did this because there are so many diet/health/fitness blogs out there and wanted to make our own spin on that.  We are two stay-at-home moms who have lots of activities going on with our kids and that leaves us with little time to focus on ourselves.  We did this to be accountable to each other, to ourselves and to those that are reading this blog.  Too many times stay-at-home moms put themselves on the back burner to put their children's needs/wants/activities above their own.  Now is the time for us to take charge, learn to say no and make time for ourselves! 

We are each going to do our own posts as well as posts together.  We will be having weigh in days and you can follow our progress.  We will be discussing our meals and our fitness/activity routines.  We will document our successes and our failures.  You will see us at our best and at our worst.  Bear with us as we are by no means health or fitness gurus, but we are just lay people giving our advice and documenting our story. 

 There will be a lot of ups and downs, but we will be here supporting each other and helping each other along the way.

HERE WE GO!!!