I'll start.... tomorrow

I'm hoping that so far no one is following this blog for motivation, because you won't find much of that here.

After a typical weekend of drinking, staying up too late, eating McDonalds breakfast (sometimes getting two combos instead of one... for myself) I vowed that today I would run. Today I would get up, eat healthy, workout, and feel good.

As three of my classmates and I walked past fast food choices for lunch, I saw golden arches in the distance. While two of my smarter friends headed for Subway, myself and one other girl were drawn in by the arches. Like a magnet it pulled us toward it, posters of crisp fries and bubbly pop making it impossible to resist.

Before I walked inside, every ounce of rationality in my body must have seeped out of my pores as I ordered a Filet au Fish combo with an extra filet on the side. Necessary? No. Never. But as a member of the Clean Plate Club, I finished every last bite.

Okay. So I ate a terribly unhealthy lunch. I'll eat a good dinner and go for a nice run to balance it out. Right?

Wrong. As soon as it started raining I knew that tiny bit of motivation my grotesquely large lunch had helped me amass was gone, and I resigned to the computer, television, and couch for the night.

I know, you don't want to hear me whine about how much I miss being fit when the only thing I do involves some kind of fried seafood and an intense amount of gluttony. But this is harder than I thought! I feel so far from where I was that the finish line just seems too far away(I'm pretty sure that's what Mike, the winner of this year's Biggest Loser said... and he was 526lbs).

I promise that I will not write until I have gone for a run, eaten well all day, and released myself from the hypnosis of those damn arches.

For a little extra push, I'm looking to social media. Check out this link http://www.diet-blog.com/08/35_social_media_sites_for_the_health_conscious.php to find a list of social networking fitness sites.

I chose comotivate.com, where you register by typing in all of your health, fitness and weight loss goals, as well as personal information like height and weight. Each user has their own homepage and a news feed (like facebook). As you add friends to help motivate you, you can form teams with others with similar health and fitness goalsgoals. In the Team Area members can blog, share photos and videos, and track their weight loss together.

So far I have one friend, and she is smaller, lighter and fitter than I am...

Check back next time for the verdict on this site as social media takes over the fitness world!