Dreamgirl here! - Lakita's pursuit of "the bikini"

Well, this is it, a new year and a new me.  I’m going to my third workout tonight and I’m still sore from the first one last Monday.  To be honest, I really didn’t want to go at first because I was so tired from the holidays, but after I went I felt so much better.  That first step.  That first workout is always the hardest one to make but it feels great once it’s made.  I feel like I have some momentum behind me now and each time it will get easier and easier.  Moreover, it becomes easier when you have a posse like mine cheering you on when you’re working out.  My new girlfreinds were that extra shot of adrenaline that I needed last night when I walkied into the gym.  ‘You can do it. . . you go girl. . . come on, just one more time!’  All of them are great. What I like about this group of women the most is that most of us don’t view this as a competition, but a collaboration.  The only people we are competing against is ourselves and we encourage each other to be our best selves.  I suppose this is why it’s called the best life diet program. We colaborate by providing an encouraging and optimistic environment where we can strive and thrive to be our best not the best.

I weighed myself earlier this week for the last time until next month and believe me I have no problem not stepping on a scale.  There will be no temptation on my part to take a peak at those numbers.  Hopefully they will be numbers I will never see again in this lifetime.  With all of this working out I know we will all be building lots of muscle, and of course muscle weighs more than fat.  This is good to know.  It would be very discouraging to torture ouselves only to step on a scale and be disappointed.  So it’s good that we won’t be weighing-in until February.  I wasn’t excited at first but with each meeting, or workout ,the excitement builds.  So if there are any of you out there right now who are feeling discouraged about your current situation, know that your best life is but the next step away, and another step, and another step.  Let me be just one more person to cheer you on to fit into whatever ‘bikini’ you’re striving to , because ‘it is in you to continue!’