In the Beginning...

...there was a girl named Lindy. This girl was not happy with the way she looked, so she decided to start a blog to document her experiences as she fought to lose weight, get in shape, and be happy with herself.

This is not going to be your typical document-how-many-calories-I-consumed-versus-how-many-I-burned blog. That would be utterly and completely boring. No one wants to read that because no one cares. This is going to be a running commentary on what I'm feeling that particular day—whether I'm hating on the Barbie dolls at the gym (or in my apartment complex pool) or bemoaning the state of my butt after a rigorous session of lunges. Whatever is on my mind regarding fitness at that particular moment could likely end up on the Internet for all to read.

Another purpose of this blog is to give me a purpose, something to do everyday. And if I feel obligated to write everyday (or almost everyday), maybe I'll feel obligated to actually work at getting in shape everyday.

Yet another purpose (I know, it's a lot of purposes...sorry about that) is to try to hone my writing skills. I fancy myself a bit of a writer (okay, well, I'd like to fancy myself a writer), so hopefully this will give me an excuse to practice being witty, or entertaining, or persuasive, or whatever I want to be that day.

So...welcome to my pursuit of skinniness. Sort of. More like my pursuit of being happy with who I am, regardless of whether I fit the "ideal" or not. Because, really, let's be honest. How many women fit the ideal we as a society have imposed on ourselves? Not many. I want to be my own ideal—that's what I'm looking for.