Why A Blog?

For the longest time, I have wanted to achieve a healthier weight, be fitter and learn more about nutrition. Years of different "diets" had really messed with my understanding of nutrition and I honestly didn't know what was healthy and what wasn't anymore.

Like many others, I've been successful at losing 20, 30 or even 40 pounds several times, but I have had real difficulty in holding onto my progress. I get overly confident, or I get worn out from hypervigilance, or life happens and a year or two later, I'm back where I started.

I know how to lose, I know how to gain, but maintaining eludes me! Should I even care? I guess it's okay if I'm lean and strong for a time, and pudgy and weak for a time?  

But deep down, I know that being fit and healthy gives us the very best controllable opportunity to live this one life we've been given and to live it well. 

I have a son who has already lost one parent prematurely, I have a grandson that I want to have his Nana around...and not just around....actually with him, participating in life with him, showing him how fun life can be! 

So that means I need to be fit, healthy, flexible, and strong. 

Guess what? I don't need to be skinny! Skinny doesn't lift my grandson, skinny doesn't help me fight infection, skinny doesn't make me a better mother, wife, or lover. I want to live a great life as a fit, healthy, flexible, and strong woman who doesn't have to be skinny and who doesn't want to keep doing the same work over and over.

So, this blog is mainly for me. I want to document my journey, keep and share insights along the way, and always have a place to remind me to have Fit Healthy Harmony in my life.