So here’s the deal. We’re all struggling with it – weight loss, physical fitness, health, well-being!!! Call it whatever you like, it is a source of daily confusion, frustration, guilt, and suffering for many many people and women especially. Obesity is more prevalent than ever. Cancer abounds. People get winded climbing stairs. This is life in our busy, information-based world. We all know the answers. We know how to lose weight and stay healthy, but we just don’t! We’re too busy working, carting the kids here and there, watching the Simpsons, and saving the world to eat less and exercise more.

The good news is we ARE living longer. Life expectancy for women today is 75!!! 5 years more than it was even in 1950. higher than ever. Well we for one want to enjoy all those extra years! We want to live vibrantly into our 80s and 90s and not have to worry about crippling osteoporosis, heart attacks, and breast cancer.

So we’re starting a game. It’s an exploration, really. An experiment. To see what we learn and what we find on the journey to total well-being. Because really, knowing is overrated – learning is what it’s all about!!

The premise is simple. We create a plan and stick to it. The plan includes eating, cardio, strength, and flexibility components. The plans are our own – they’re personalized to suit our individual goals and time constraints. We get to make our own plans, but the key is, we have to stick to it 100%.

In each 8 week session, if we don’t stick to the plan 100%, we have to pay a penalty to the kitty.

So integrity is considered table stakes in this game. You need bones to dance after all. But given a certain integrity of structure, that’s when the dancing can really begin. And the dancing in this game is the best part.

The dance is the exploration – examining our own limitations, the bounds of our willingness to keep our word. We’ll explore all of our justifications for not taking care of our bodies. We’ll plumb the depths of our resistance, our fear, our resignation, our wishful thinking, our desires, and our own sense of who we are and what we can accomplish. And we will spill it all out on these pages so that anyone who is interested (or who is forced to read them because they know us) can learn from what we discover.

So welcome to our game.

We stand for integrity, exploration, and contribution. 

We are Women Going Down.