Day One

I am a Black Woman Going Healthy. There is much I could say about eating healthy. However, first I want to weigh in on the title of the blog. At first I wanted to name this blog Going Skinny, but if I am true to myself, I don't want to go skinny, I want to go healthy; I yearn, that's right, to go, to be healthy.

That's why I write--to be healthy. I am going to spend the next 90 days consciously working, cheering myself on. I am thinking about this and a student walks into my office for her research paper conference. What she tells me about meat and cancer is alarming. I am not a meat eater, but this is just another sign that I need to think, ponder, "go healthy." If you happen to run across this blog, I invite you to go healthy also. Oh, I am going to keep this real also. Like I want you to know that on this day I am weighing in at 170; I am twenty poounds down from my weight last year about this time. That's good, but in terms of the pounds I have a ways to go. My BMI is 31. Join me in health. Let's go healthy.