It’s on.

I rescheduled an FO Friday post about an adorbs quilt to bring you this breaking news.

Okay, it’s not that exciting.

I started a new workout program this week. I was influenced by Janetha over at Meals and Moves when she posted her rockin’ bod iPhone-in-the-mirror in-progress photo. In-progress of what, you say?

Jamie Eason’s LiveFit program. One word: OUCH

So this program — especially phase one —  is focused on weightlifting. This foreign to me because I’ve always been HUGEly into cardio. In fact this one time a LONG time ago, in case I haven’t mentioned it for a while, I kind of ran a marathon.

But I’m bored. I’m tired of running in circles. I’m tired of plugging away on a stair stepper. I’m sick of waiting in line for a stupid cardio machine to be kicked off by a 20-year-old girl in full-on makeup and hair with Victoria’s Secret PINK strappy non-supportive sports bras …

I’m wussing out and hating running outside in the cold. I need something different. A different motivation. A different spin. A different me? Yes.

Enter Jamie’s program. Phase one is a LOT of lifting and not so much cardio. I’m going to do a bit of cardio as well but I’m going to shift gears and for the first time EVER focus on the lifting part.

So now instead of bubbly CoverGirls I’m hitting it hard with wrestlers*, wannabe bodybuilders, and mostly … macho men. I’m lifting on the manly side of the gym. And it is much prettier than I expected.

Also, I am blogging about my progress in this program.

For those of you freaking out, no worries. I’m not going to go all gung-ho fitness guru over here. I’ll throw some in-progress posts up but I’m blogging over on my Livestrong account. I already log my food and fitness there daily, so it seemed fitting. Don’t go there now because I’ve not done much other than what I’ve just told you here … but still.

So consider this my “before” photo. I may have Mark take some official “before” photos in my bikini … but in case I don’t see any change, I don’t want to set a precedence for more photos in the future. This is my minimal work me. Not really watching what I eat. Working out 30-40 minutes a day (plugging away at the same boring crap) 5-6 times a week.

Side note: My phone is creepy and has pulled all my photos from my old “Life+Running” blog. I came across this photo from 2 weeks before the marathon in 2008 (which BTW I weighed just about the same as now — guessing my muscle mass in my legs was the case there). I would like to be HERE again.

Another side note: I’ve had a mild case of the stomach flu for 2 days now. Of course. When I start a badass program. I have to get sick.

AND one more thing! I don’t know where my head was when I wrote this post, but I forgot to mention that Meals and Moves is doing a Dedicated December workout challenge. Every day you are active, post your workout in a comment on her page (click the image below). She’s doing giveaways all through the month.

*Also — important fact that I’ve forgotten since my days long ago of being wrestling manager in high school: Wrestlers have amazing butts. 

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