I'm hoping to stay inspired to live a more conscious life with intent and awareness. It's not about just losing the weight, though I'd love to reach my goal, it's more about changing my lifestyle so I can live with the ideas of joy rather than weight or size.

And then again, I'd like to fit my skinny jeans too.

Hopefully soon I'll be able to feel as beautiful as the world around me, from the inside out.

I have started two new blogs, one to follow my running and a Quest to a Marathon at blog.262quest.com and one to follow my weight loss at blog.2big.org, please check them out.

I am an IT professional / Developer which means I sit in front of a computer most of the day. This means very little exercise and plenty of time to eat.

I decided at the first of the year that I was going to lose weight. I started by changing my eating habits and started walking.

I did so for about a month and then added some weight lifting and started to run a little bit.

I have so far lost 29 lbs in just over 3 months and would like to lose just over another 50 lbs by the end of the year.

I have started running quite a bit more and am training to run the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta on July 4th (10k)

I need all the encouragement I can get because to do this I am getting up every morning during the week at 4:30 to go running. With a wife and kids this is really the only time that I can consistently do what I need to do.

I am driven, but at times get a bit discouraged because I don't have anybody to work out with or run with.

All in All, I know I can do it, I just have to remember that when I don't do so well, it is in the past and what matters is going forward.

A more up to date thread on me:
http://www.traineo.com/14_2366_0.html

My name is Olivia. I have asthma and the past year it has been really bad and I have been on steriods for about 9 months. I am weening off of them now, but I gained ALOT of weight while I was taking them. I like to do yoga and run on the elliptical!

I am doing the JUDDDD.

I'm 5'3
Starting weight (07/30/07)- 145lbs
Goal weight- 120 lbs

Learning to love being fit.

I'm trying to eat low carb and get in all my water.

Even an ol' granny like me has a Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/peacemomlaura.com