Welcome!!

In an effort to make up for my lack of motivational prowess leading up to the Summit, I wanted to create a sort of virtual "water cooler" for us to gather around while taking part in our BU weight loss challenge.

I'll do my best to post any motivational stuff I can find, including recipes, that can help us stick to our individual plans. I have heard of using white dresses and milestone birthdays as motivation from our group. I'm using the arrival of a new little one to (try to) stay on track.

So this actually turns out to be a group activity and not another blog for me to play with... Let me know if you want to be added as a blog author. It's super-easy to post here and I'm having to give quick blogger lessons to anyone who needs one. It would be great if we could all leave occasional comments, too, to keep each other motivated.

To get the ball rolling... Leave a comment if you're joining the team that's working our BUtts off (thanks to Jeff for the clever tagline!) and maybe let us know what your reason for participating is. I'd say let us know your goal, but I want to be sure we're all clear that we're not talking numbers here. Goodness knows I don't want to share THAT much!

P.S. My apologies for that random pic of Sam off to the right. I didn't realize that setting up this blog under my gmail account would link it to my profile. I can't get rid of that box on the blog, but I figure he's cute enough that maybe you all wouldn't mind his face there. ;-)