Our 1st Before Pictures and a GIVEAWAY!!!

The Before Pictures!!! We should have done them a month ago, but better late than never! After you see our pics, hop on over to My Fitness Pal, and add us as friends: mrserinjohnson and shanse. If you aren't already a member of this website, it's a free site that's a lot like the Weight Watchers.  You can keep track all of your eating with their huge database of food, also your exercising can be tracked.  It's awesome!  After you do that, comment over here for your chance to win a gift card to Jamba Juice! We are giving away 2 of them.  Enter our giveaway by Tuesday, August 13, at 5:00 pm.  We will announce our winners on Wednesday!

Shanna:
     This is definitely not fun seeing pictures of myself this way. It is what it is though, and I am determined to lose the belly(which sadly is NOT a leftover from having my twins!)and become toned and have MORE energy!!!

Erin:
    Wow, if you want some good motivation, take photos of yourself from each angle and decide if there's anything you want to work on.  My goal is to lose weight in general, and work on my leftover rolls from my twins.

I am so excited about our blog and hope that we can motivate each other and anyone else that wants to follow along on our fun-filled hard-working adventure! Erin and I seem to be able to keep each other motivated...in the gym! Girls nights at applebees or coldstone might be a different story! :) Today when we went to the gym, we both felt exhausted and planned to just do 30 minutes on the elliptical and call it good for the day. Well we kicked some booty! We did 45 minutes, and THEN called it a day(We may have chatted on the bench for 15 minutes before picking up kids). Tomorrow, we will make every minute count! We will! We aren't fit yet, but WE WILL BE!!!

The Beginnings

So, to start this blog I thought I'd give a little background on why I've been wanting to do this.  I have been going to the gym with my awesome friend Shanna for about 10 months...sometimes more diligently than others...but I have felt a big difference in the way my body feels and how I feel about myself.  I was going to start a weight loss group, but decided that was maybe too much work for me right now.  Then we came up with this...a blog about fitness, health, recipes, encouragement, discouraging problems and hopefully ways to work through them......all from two friends who are quirky, funny and trying really hard to get healthy.  The best part is, we aren't there yet...if you're like me and you see all the super fit girls on pinterest, you think, "Man, I've got a long way to go, and I'm probably never going to look like that...I mean, come on, I've had 4 babies and don't have the time to devote my life to rock hard abs!"  This blog is going to be about our journeys and what makes us feel good, and hopefully look good!  We really want to help motivate people and in that process keep ourselves motivated.  I'm super excited about this, and can't wait to amp this blog up!