Hello from Cindy - AKA Shaping up in Sacramento

Hi everyone!

I'm Cindy, the California girl in the challenge.  I'm super excited about the Survivor Slim down not only because it's a chance to start enforcing some positive, healthy lifestyle changes but also because I get to work really closely with two amazing ladies - Tamika and Pam.

Tamika, Pam, and I were all in Chicago over the weekend for the National Cervical Cancer Coalition's annual conference and, boy is it hard to stick to healthy eating at a conference!  The hotel food is mostly bread, pasta, and fruit but I was happy to be able to find a salad now and then.  Many of the ladies at the conference already knew about the slim down and most of them were really encouraging and were even talking about joining us for the triathlon next October.  Unfortunately, one of them wasn't so encouraging (although I honestly think that she thought she was helping).  The night of the cocktail reception that kicks off the conference I totally avoided the pasta table, only eating salad and one prawn for dinner, and having one glass of white wine to wash it down.  Someone came up to me  while I was eating my salad and asked "does all of this fit into your diet?".  I'm not sure how any of you would feel about that but it felt extremely judgmental and unsupportive to me.  I felt so good about controlling my portions and staying away from bad carbs and then someone who has never had to battle her weight asks that question.  Luckily, Tamika and Pam were there to lift my spirits and we all enjoyed the rest of the evening - including our late night workout after the reception :-)

My uncle sent me a joke the other day that I thought was funny.  Hope you do too...

I just had a call from a Charity asking me to donate some of my clothes to the starving people throughout the world.
I told them to go to hell!!  Anybody who fits into my clothes isn't starving!!

Thanks for following us along our journey!  I'll be back again soon.

~Cindy