So, it looks like this blogging thing is catching on.
Even my editors at Us Weekly think I have a knack. They’ve managed to rope me into doing it for the magazine’s Web site.
Here’s to me, Us Weekly’s first blogger. Read all about me pulling off the Us Weekly 30-day Get Fit Challenge here.
I know what you’re thinking. That I’m a true wordsmith – and that my talent for stringing words together is finally getting me recognition on a national stage.
I think it’s more likely that my editors think my hiney is fat. And that I’m the best candidate to write about losing weight because, well, I could stand to carry around a little less of me.
Either way, I’m now working out with a celebrity trainer, feeling the pain and already wondering what I’ve gotten myself into.
It was really hard to get moving, after avoiding the gym for a good six months. But the truth is – I feel a little better already, now that my blood is moving again. Believe me, I hate to admit it.
But don’t worry. I’m not going “LA” on you guys. If anything, having a celeb trainer is putting me even more in touch with my plebeian roots. The more I try to channel Jennifer Aniston on the treadmill, the more I see visions of Roscoe’s chicken and waffles.
Then again, that might be the LA in me too…


Gretchen, you are beautiful, but please share the secrets with us!
Posted by: Jennifer | October 20, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Especially share if the "secrets" don't include reducing sugar, booze, and eating chicken and lettuce, and working out like a demon 6 days a week.
Posted by: Heather | October 21, 2009 at 08:34 AM