#arthlete

When I first discovered Tumblr and that wonderful subgroup of the site, fitblrs, some eight years ago, I had just started on my current fitness and health journey. I was enthused by all the health and fitness memes available, and I would download and keep anything that inspired me or looked like good advice. Like any new convert, I had to get my hands on anything that would advance my cause one millimeter in the right direction. I download literally thousands of images with inspirational messages. I discovered websites like Girls' Motivation (okay, so I wasn't a girl; the images were inspirational so who cares?) and great fitblrs like a gifted artist by the name of Kim who posted under the name of ARThlete. (She is the source of the image above.)

After a few years I sort of retired my collection of fitblr memes. I still downloaded the occasional image, but they had gotten fewer and further between. Eventually I moved my folder to my portable hard drive and pretty much left it there.

As I wrote a few posts back, I am getting back into the swing of healthy and fitness after an 8½ month layoff. I got to thinking about how those images from 'way back when "cheered me on" when I first started, so I got out the portable drive and copied the folder over to my laptop. The images might be old, but the advice in them is good and might be just what I need now to remind me of how much I need to avoid any more "layoffs" like that.