The Biggest Loser.....

Ok, so I know I've said several times (since putting on my after college weight) that I'm going to workout and diet and shed these pounds. And well, I start and a couple months later I'm back to my normal routine. Well I think this is the time... =) I really really plan to stick with it, and not just to lose weight, but I need to get healthy. I am badly out of shape.
Mike and I canceled our gym membership in Springfield back when we moved into our new house. We would now be further away from the gym we liked and the drive after work and gas prices was not cutting it anymore. Since then we haven't re-joined anywhere. This last month I've felt the need more than ever to join again. We started researching gyms in our town. Surprisingly enough, there were at least 4 and I think there is a 5th one. We crammed in 3 tours last night at the ones we considered our top 3 choices. I think I know which one I want to join and we are going back Wed. when the manager is working again to take one more quick look and more than likely start our membership. 3 of the 4 gyms in our town are right by our house! If we wanted to walk to either of them I would say its a 5 minute walk, maybe 10 tops. The one I think we're going with has a child play area (don't need it now, but in the future it would be nice), it's NO contracts (I hate contracts...Lol), NO enrollment fees, and its 24/7. You just get your programmed key card to let you in when there is no staff on duty. That will work out well for us b/c Mike likes to get up early and go work out before work. And when I say early, I mean he likes to get up EARLY!.... =)
My friend Patty is also thinking of joining a gym. She lives in the same town as me. I hope she joins with me so we can workout together but I also want her to pick the gym she likes. =) Today we were talking and we decided on a way that we can help each other stay on track and motivated. I suggested starting weight loss/exercise journals. We can keep track of what we eat/drink throughout the day and the amount of calories, exercise that day...etc.... I suggested we meet up to check in but I know our schedules can be different sometimes....then I thought what if we did a blog entry each evening, like a short summary of our journals...so that we could read each others and comment on it. We also decided to make Wednesdays "weigh-in" day. When we blog on Wednesday evenings we can put if we lost any weight. We decided not to put how much we weigh on the internet.... =) Just if we lost any..... I'm very excited about our plan. Hopefully, the motivation of a friend and knowing they are doing the same thing will help.
All of our other "Blogger" friends are welcome to join our adventure..=) The more people involved...the more fun we can make it!
Oh, we also thought we could share any helpful tips with others too...such as new foods you find or anything that is helping you.
Patty we CAN do this! =) Looking fwd to my first summary tonight!