“Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea.”

I posted this quote as the title because it gives me hope that all of my ideas and dreams can become a reality if I am just devoted and dedicated. Dedication is not an easy thing. For example, I promised myself I would get into amazing shape while my husband was deployed for 6 months. He has two months left in his deployment and I lost 8 lbs...but have gained them all back!!!! I am an italian girl who loves her carbs and it is just not working out for me so well...because I have not be dedicated to working out regularly and cutting out some foods from my diet that I really should not be eating.
Therefore, my new idea is to keep a log of my diet and exercise publicly! Clearly, it isn't working when only I am accountable and seeing what I am and am not eating. So, I think I will try to make this blog for the next couple months about how a 23 year old college student can eat and exercise on a budget and time constraint. I will try to eat foods that are healthy but are not organic or crazy expensive. I will try to do different exercises to see which ones I like the best and what works. And I will post my weight loss each week (or gain, but I hope that doesn't happen!) I will do this for about 2 months until Josh gets home so I can hopefully look amazing for my husband :)
I want this to be something that other women can look at and see that it is possible to lose weight; even though it does seem impossible. I will not give up every single food that I love, because I do not believe the weight loss will be permanent then. I know that I will inevitably go back to eating my carbs and chocolates! So this will be about portion control and being consistent with working out.
I do not know if this will work, but I need to try something different to try and stay dedicated to something I am not good at! So, there will be more to come on this starting tomorrow!! I will start some kind of log about what I am eating, as well as what exercise I am getting!
Wish me luck!!!

Bin Ladin Is DEAD!

It is hard to believe that after 10 years of attacks, deaths, violence, war, and hardship that we have finally accomplished something truly major in our war on terrorism. It feels like a bittersweet victory though. As relieves as I am to have justice served to the man who murdered 3000 men, women and children on 9/11/2001, I can't help but think that this was all his plan. He was hiding in underground caves for 10 years without being discovered, and now all of a sudden he was just found hanging out in a mansion in a highly populated city in his home country with some relatives?! As sick as this man was, he was a genius. An idiot could not come up with the plan he lived out on 9/11. So, what was he doing out of hiding? why now?

Let's just say that this was not a plan of Bin Ladin's...how are his devoted followers going to react? They thought him to be a hero and savior! They will not take this lying down. I fear that this has just brought on a longer, more violent fight for our military, and possibly more attacks on our homeland. 

I will continue to be praying for our military units that are deployed and their families and hope that it does not get worse for them over there. My husband is leaving in two weeks with the air force and I just want him to come home fast and safe...