Let's Start at the Very Beginning...

It's a very good place to start, we hear. BUT...this may not have been the best time of the year to start.

Do these sisters ever do anything the easy way, though? NOPE! We are indeed starting our blogging adventure of being healthy and fit AT CHRISTMAS! Cookies, hot chocolate, and possibly a little Christmas imbibing are not gonna stop these two girls. 

So to really start at the beginning, we wanted to introduce ourselves and our purpose of blogging. Here we go...we are going to write each other's introductions...should be fun.

The Night Owl...also known as Emily (on the right)

The best big sister by day and the best nurse by night, Emily has always been the last one to go to sleep and the last one to wake up! Being a night-shift nurse makes mealtime nearly non-existent, with breakfast as dinner and dinner as lunch (how the heck do you know when to eat what -- beats me!). She's been rockin' her health journey for a while now, learning how to eat better and how to stay active when you're awake and everyone else is asleep. But we all hit roadblocks where things just don't seem to be going the way we like. Emily has lost 40 pounds in 2012 (whoop!) and wants to keep truckin' to get the rest of her weight off and be healthier in general.

The Busy Bee...also known as Amanda (on the left)

Arguably could also be considered a night owl but not by job choice. Baby sister by birth, but most of the time seems like the older, wiser sister. A 23 year old UGA graduate and current law student at Florida State University (can we get a Go Dawgs and Go Noles?!), Amanda has always been athletic with dancing and cheering in her younger days, but the days of law school have taken a toll on her active lifestyle. And chips and queso are the perfect study snack. We're just being honest here...finding something that works in her busy lifestyle is hard work. BUT the determined (can I use the word stubborn here?) girl that she is, is serious about getting fit this time. And when this girl has her mind set on something, you just better watch out.

So, we initially started a private blog between ourselves to hold each other accountable and to motivate each other. As frequent blog readers, we have been frustrated with the small amount of fitness/health blogs that are actually written by girls like us. "I love eating healthy!!!"...Ummm, NO. We love Mexican food, ice cream, potato chips, candy, you get the point. We love junk food and the occasional healthy food. We're learning. We set out to blog as an example of people living busy, crazy lives and still managing to fit in some work outs and healthy eats. We are far from perfect and have experienced many failures along the road to health already. The thing about us...we're not ashamed to admit them.

In closing our first (LONG!) post, we hope that we can provide some encouragement and maybe a little humor to girls (and guys?!) out there like us.

Thanks for joining us on our journey!