Ch-ch-ch-changes

It's a new year, friends! When "change" becomes our favorite key word. There have been many changes around here, the most notable one being the religious police's very assertive presence in the city. The general mood here is mostly "No, we're not going out, we don't want to risk getting caught by the religious police", if you are wanting to know. For many years, we've enjoyed a pretty lax and "open" Jeddah, but that has obviously changed. Whether or not it's just another one of those fear-mongering projects that we are sadly accustomed to doesn't matter, because really, isn't this part of the package you sign up for when you move to Saudi Arabia? 

But.

Moving on to some pretty good changes. 

Regular BSG friend of this blog, Hakeem, is gearing up to start Veggiesaur Dawn, where he will be building and monitoring his own fitness goals while at the same time being part of a community that could "spot" each other. I think it's a brilliant idea.

Head on to this blog and check it out, or if you have questions about how this works, you can email veggiesaurs@gmail.com.

Things kick off on the 1st of February, so you have ample time to prep yourself (psychologically, mostly?) if you would like to join. 

Now, I'm not a vegetarian like so many of my friends here, but I'm willing to be one for a few days a week just to boost my weight loss/fitness. The main reason I like Hakeem's idea is because I've been a member of different fitness communities online that I can't relate to much because they are mostly very American. This is much closer to home (and for some reason, much less foreveralone), and also because I like the idea of having a group of people that would help me reach my fitness goals in a healthy and informative way (as opposed to the let's-pull-crap-out-of-our-butt way. Ew.).

So, anyone here have a fitness goal for this year?