Skinny Chic M.I.A.

Hello... Hello...It's me, Skinny Chic, is anybody out there? It's been almost 8 months since I've set foot in the outside world, but boy am I excited to be back! I owe you all a HUGE apology. I disappeared due to circumstances that were beyond my control and even though I put up a great fight ultimately Fat Chic prevailed again...I gained 32 pounds, ended up developing high blood pressure (for which I now have medication), carpal tunnel, and now I'll soon be having surgery to remove my gall bladder; But looking on the bright side of this it was all worth it because I was blessed with the most precious and beautiful gift God could have provided...My Lady Bug, Aaziah Carmel Taylor. Due to my extremely unhealthy state I developed 'Pre-eclampsia' and had to deliver my baby 5 weeks early. She was born 4 pounds 10 ounces and she's been fighting from day one. She was born perfectly healthy and blew away every test that the doctors threw at her, so much so, that she never even had to enter the NICU (nursery intensive care unit)!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!!! But now that she's out and my surgery will be completed really soon, it's time to switch focus and begin to make changes so that I can be here to see her have her children.

And so...THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE RESUMES... Since gaining the 32 lbs with pregnancy I've actually lost every last pound, which lets me know it was all baby and water weight and so I'm back where I started.

I'm going to start off slow this time.

For stage 1 of the battle: Beginning this week (I missed yesterday, but from here on out) I am going to walk 1 mile Monday-Saturday. Week 1 will be used to get a baseline or average mile time. Week 2 I am going to walk 1 mile, but this time I'm going to attempt to take 2-4 minutes off my total mile time. I will continue with this routine until I get my total mile time between 10-12 minutes. Once I reach that goal I'll enter stage 2.

We can talk about that more later because IIII'MMMM BBBBAAAACCCCKKKK (singing) IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME...I SHOULDN'T LEFT YOU...WITHOUT A DOPE BEAT TO STEP TO...STEP TO...STEP TO...STEP TO...STEP TO...STEP TO...STEP TO.