How this started, and am I crazy?

I started Fat Girl Gets Fit, my weight loss and fitness blog, in February 2009.  It was my attempt to get support and accountability.  It sort of worked.  People were extremely supportive, and I'd get bursts of motivation, but ultimately, I was still alone in the process.  I had various Wii fitness games.  ALL OF THEM.  LOL  And I used them.  Mostly...  And then motivation would wane, because I didn't really have anyone pushing me.

And then comes BlogHer '09.  An amazing, amazing experience.  Miraculous for me, because I'm a pretty broke single mom, and total strangers worked to get me there!

Saturday, July 25th, and there I am walking around thinking about how I'll get to BlogHer '10.  Figuring out ways to convince sponsors to cover my expense.  It's in New York City for crying out crazy.  How awesome would that be?

Yeah... wow...

And then I started thinking not only do I want to get sponsors to go to BlogHer '10, I want to get Thin by '10.  Whoa... click... that sounds kinda neat... SWEET!

Hmmm... wonder if I could get sponsors to support that?  Gears in my brain started turning.  If you smelled smoke in Chicago, that might have been it...

Then I sat down at the Health & Wellness Birds of a Feather table at lunch on Saturday.  And I started telling them about this crazy idea that I had.

Lisa Johnson, of Lisa Johnson Fitness was sitting right next to me.  "I'll coach you," she said.  If you heard a really loud crash and felt the ground shake in Chicago, that was my jaw hitting the floor...

I suddenly had what I was lacking the last six months.  Someone to guide me and push me the way I needed to be pushed.  Accountability.

And then... there was a rep from a VERY large company sitting right across the table from us.  Listening to the whole conversation.  Interested in the whole conversation.  Possibly interested in sponsoring this little endeavor.

Whoa... Yeah... freaky cool... and more on that as this thing evolves :)

Lisa and I spent the next several hours plotting and planning.  And getting more and more excited.  I'm a hyper-excitable person anyway, and I was way pumped.

We got a domain.  And soon, we'll have a website.  Thin by 10.  Yeah... cool...

Every week, we'll post videos.  Daily posts of my progress... ya know, Day 1: I feel pumped... Day 10:  I'm sore... Day 56:  Oh my gods I want to die why won't she let me rest.... That sort of thing LOL

We'll have a show every week on MomTV.

We will share this entire process with you.  From start to finish.  So that you can cheer me on.  Or better yet, so that YOU can JOIN me and get Thin by '10 yourself!

And yes... I probably am crazy... who else would take pictures of themself in skin tight workout clothes at 232 pounds... and yeah... I did that in February when I started Fat Girl Gets Fit...