Meghan O'Keefe

It has come to my attention that I’m out of shape* and out of all my excess monies.

Here’s how I will fix this:

I will sign up for a 10k at the end of the summer. I can run a 5k hungover and still asleep and I don’t have the time to train for anything over 10k, so yeah.

I will quit drinking diet soda. Sure, there’s no calories, but there’s still, you know, cancer causing, bloat-inducing stuff in it.

I will go back to only eating bagels on weekends and I won’t buy brie cheese or potato chips to snack on at night. I will snack on fruit and pop chips and other healthy things.

I will do more freelance work and cut back on eating/drinking out.

I will foster a healthy sense of self-esteem, because even if I want to improve my life, I have to believe I am worth it to take the steps. And because if my thighs continue to get bigger, I need to own them.

If I do all this, I should prevail.

Follow me to easy summer self-improvement!

*I’ve gained probably five pounds in the last year (I don’t weigh myself), but more importantly, I can’t run as far or as fast as I used to. Strength and endurance are more important to me than my dress size. Also, my thighs are getting bigger and I will admit that does sort of bother me. So, I better do what I can to fix it and there’s a lot of stuff I could do to fix it. So, I’m going to shut up and fix it.