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" Hey girls! My name is Alissa and I&amp;#039;m 17 years old. I just graduated from high school and I am so excited to work on getting in shape this summer. Summer is my favorite season for two reasons: First is the weather, and second because I don&amp;#039;t have to worry about schoolwork! My favorite thing to do in my free time is hang out with my friends, especially on the beach. I&amp;#039;m also really excited about this summer because of the opportunity I&amp;#039;ve been given to work with a trainer and share my progress with all of you! I&amp;#039;ll be going away to St. John&amp;#039;s University in the fall, so now is the perfect time for me to develop healthy eating and exercise habits; this way, I&amp;#039;ll be better prepared to make the right choices when I&amp;#039;m living on my own. I&amp;#039;ll be working with Jarett del Bene who&amp;#039;ll help me get motivated so that I can stick to a workout plan and be a healthier person. I hope that all of you will help me out, too! Here&amp;#039;s some more about me: Name: Alissa Age: 17 Location: Long Island School Info: I&amp;#039;m going to be a freshman at St. John&amp;#039;s University Favorite Movie: Bring It On: I&amp;#039;ve seen it so many times but I&amp;#039;ll never get tired of it! I love to listen to: Anything that makes me want to dance Celebs wardrobe I&amp;#039;d love to raid: I would love to raid the closet on the set of Gossip Girl! If a genie told me I could make three unhealthy foods healthy, I&amp;#039;d pick: Ice cream, chocolate chip cookies, and brownies. I definitely have a sweeth tooth! Typical Friday night: Working and then going out with friends Celebrity Crush: Kellan Lutz Team Edward or Team Jacob: Team Edward! Biggest Food Challenge: I&amp;#039;m picky, so my challenge is eating new (and healthier) kinds of food Biggest Fitness Challenge: Lack of motivation. Sometimes I get lazy and make excuses not to work out, so I&amp;#039;ll definitely have to change that habit! Favorite Type of Exercise: Dancing. I love it so much, and it doesn&amp;#039;t even feel like exercise! Favorite Food: Chicken In 6 months, I want to be: Healthier and more confident I&amp;#039;d like to give a shout out to: Everybody who is supporting me at my gym, Fitness Incentive in Babylon, NY. Thank you Rachel and Monica for your awesome advice! Getting started has me feeling: I&amp;#039;m a little worried that I won&amp;#039;t be able to kick my bad eating habits to the curb. I just keep trying to remember how great I&amp;#039;ll feel in 6 months after this experience, and how worth it everything will have been. I&amp;#039;m excited to work out, though, and I hope this blog will inspire girls like me who aren&amp;#039;t looking to lose loads of weight, but who still need some motivation to get started! Anything else: I want readers to know that we are in this together! I hope that you&amp;#039;ll keep reading, and that you&amp;#039;ll share your own progress with me. Now that you&amp;#039;ve learned a little bit about me, I&amp;#039;d love to do the same with all of you. Pick one or two questions and let me know how you would answer them! - Alissa "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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