Back to Life Back to Reality!

Cripes people, here I am again months later tuning into my long, lost blog. Why do these still exist? I think people still look at it my page statistics are pretty good. Ugh...it's just so hard to keep up with it when you're a one woman show. I will try and do better. The funny thing is that at the new year I made a resolution that I would post one marketing thing a day either on my blog, fb, etc. Harder than what it sounds. The truth is I don't want to be depressing or sound depressing but I started the new year off in a bit of a funk and decided that I needed to spend some time on myself. Over the past few years as my business has grown (thank you all very much) I have not been good about taking care of myself. I have spent more and more time on the computer downloading photos, editing photos,retouching photos, marketing, accounting, facebooking which equals sitting, sitting and more sitting. I have spent less time with my family all in trying to grow this business which has cost me feeling good about myself, eating right and exercising every day. When the work schedule gets crazy the gym workout is the first thing to get slashed off the list. So, with the new year I decided to focus on myself a bit more. I've entered into 2 weight loss competitions. One was a 6 week Biggest Loser contest which I did with 4 other gals in the neighborhood. That one has already ended and I did not win but I worked so hard everyday watching my diet, doing my fitness pal and getting to the gym almost 2.5 hrs. a day. That contest was based on weight alone and the girl who won lost 18 lbs. in 6 weeks. What? I know. I don't know how she did it. My second contest is the Gold's Gym Fitness Challenge and it's a 12 week contest which will end at the end of April. This one is a compilation of weight loss, inches lost, body fat lost and most improved photos (within my age category) so we'll see. I definitely am feeling better. I've lost 8 lbs. total since January which doesn't seem like a lot for the amount of work I've been putting in but it's got me looking and feeling better about myself. I'm always inspired by The Biggest Loser show and even more so now since I've been trying to lose some weight. It stinks to have to log every morsel of food that goes into your mouth but it made me realize that I was eating alot of unhealthy foods with a high calorie count. So, why am I telling you this? Because, I know lots of you out there have and may be experiencing the same thing and I'd like to hear from you. I want to be inspired by your stories of miraculous weight loss and hear about what life is like for you now. I will pick the top 3 stories that come in and then we will have our readers vote on the most inspirational. The winner gets a free "Sassy Shoot" to show off the new you! I want to reward the winner with a free photo shoot, 4x6 booklet of images and a music video of their new fab-O YOU! Email all entries to b_nellis@hotmail.com Hope to hear from you! Since I am in Austin, TX I need someone in the area! All entries need to be in by May 31, 2013 midnight.