Grass and Sky

Hey, I found an issue of Shape magazine in my mailbox this afternoon. Seems someone has anonymously gifted me a magazine subscription. Thank you, whoever you are! I will use it to help find/keep motivation for continuing my weight loss and increasing my fitness.

It comes at a good time, too. Because this month has been one of no motivation and terrible diet/exercise.

I've started a new community.

It has nothing to do with hobbits or Farscape or Lost or comics or any of the things I usually obsess talk about. Instead, it's a health and fitness support community. I know there are lots of places like this out there already, but here's another one.

I started this mainly because my sisters and I are always talking about trying to lose weight or become more active, or whatever the goal of the day is, but it's difficult for us to actually do anything. We talk about working together, but we live in different states, so it's not really easy to do anything *together.*

Well, this is a way to be together. At this new community we can say what our goals are, what we've done each day to achieve those goals (even if it's as little as not eating that piece of chocolate you wanted after supper), offer support, advice, ideas, and reassurance to each other.

This is a very open, informal community with no rules other than to be supportive rather than abusive. If you're interested in checking it out, the community is called fit_for_life. :)