185 on 4/13/2013

It's a big goal but it is doable. I think I have not pushed myself hard enough. I have not ever really set huge concrete goals to strive for and achieve. I just roll along with whatever the week brings me. And that means excitement for a great weight loss and disappointment for no loss or a gain. I am done playing that game. I have achievements to reach this year. It is time to set concrete reachable goals and to quit dilly-dallying around with it. It is time to go out for meals and make wise choices. It is time to not go out to a meal and think of it as a reward. Food is fuel for my body, not a reward because I ate good that week. All that accomplishes is a set back.

We are going on our anniversary trip the morning of (I assume) Saturday, April 13, 2013. My goal on that morning is to weigh 185 pounds. That means I have four weeks to lose a decent chunk of weight. I have Easter, our anniversary dinner and Matt's birthday to get through between now and then. I will do it. This goal will be accomplished. 

I am going to have my weigh-in day be Wednesday. Yesterday, I weighed 199.0. I will weigh again on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. That gives me a full week, rather than weighing in again in three days. Here we go. I will check in with my progress.

Improvements & Legs

There have been some changes since my last post and they have been good things. As I previously stated, I went back and reviewed my food journals and the things I was doing then that was working for me. I also did join Planet Fitness. I have even been going two evenings a week. How great is that! I am working towards that 5k goal and it is going well. It is also showing on the scale!! Woo-hoo! That makes me so happy. So here is what has happened in the past two weeks:

• I joined the gym and am going on Tues/Thurs evenings and Sat mornings.
• I put my workout schedule on the calender every Sunday.
• I have been journaling all my food and keeping track of my points.

And the numbers that I was so frustrated by before have been on the move. On Saturday morning, I weighed 197.6. That's a loss of 5.6 pounds in two weeks. My body fat was 49.9%, which was a lost of 1.3% in the same two weeks.

What did I change? I am working out HARD in the mornings. Certainly harder than I had been in the past. I have been walking LaFortune Park on Sunday afternoon, which is so fun to get outside and enjoy life around me. I have gone to the gym on Tues and Thursday evening using the treadmill for 45 minutes each time. I am continuing that 5k training. I am on week three of the C25k training and it has been going great. It is changing my body physically and giving me that extra cardio. I am so very excited about it. This week coming up, I am going to continue with Week 3. I have pretty much done each week of training two weeks in a row because I have not quite been ready to move on. So I am going to continue that track this week.

Legs: Who wouldn't want legs like Carrie Underwood's? They are gorgeous and perfect as far as I am concerned. I know she works hard for them. I may not have legs that look exactly like her's but I am giving my very best effort to have gorgeous legs. I do believe that not only will running help me to lose the weight it will help me get gorgeous legs!! 

Continued hard work, here I come! I am not afraid! I am stronger than I give myself credit for. I am not scared of the gym anymore either. I don't care what any body is thinking around me. I am there for me!