My Goals

I thought I'd talk a little about my goals. Ultimately I want to just live a healthy, fit life. I am not aiming to be model skinny or to only weigh this much and that's that. But having goals for wanting to weigh this much or fit into this size pants help motivate me into doing the work to becoming healthier. I need goals so I can track progress I can actually see. I'm sure I will be able to feel it as well and I know it will benefit me later in life but it helps to have something now.

Weight- I would like to be around 130 pounds. That puts me at a healthy BMI of 22.3. That means over all I need to loose about 51 pounds. With my loss this week that only makes it 48.4. I'd love to do this by next year but honestly I don't think that is realistic. Loosing over 2 pounds is a rarity for me. So I'm hoping that by this time next year I will have lost all my weight. That means I'd have to loose 1 pound a week for the next year. I'm optimistic that I can do that. 

I have a few mini goals; because lets face it, hearing I need to loose 50 pounds in daunting.

The first is just 9 weeks or so from now. Every year for our anniversary my husband and I go to Vegas for a hockey game. We got married there almost 3 years ago. This is something I'm counting down to anyways so why not  add this on to it. I aim to loose a little more than a pound a week but just to be safe I set this for one a week, starting from two weeks ago :). Here's hoping I meet this one and feel good enough to behave for the 4 or 5 days I will be there.

The second mini goal is Christmas! It seems like a good day because I love to be near my family and I'd like to loose enough that they ask....have you lost weight?

What do you think, is this attainable or am I being silly? I want to push myself but I want to be realistic too.




Exercise- I really want to stick with my plan from day one, working up to running my 5K and then go from there with that. I have exercise workouts that have worked well in the past, even though I've only done them sporadically at best. But simply I want to run at least 3 days a week following the Hal Higdon's plan. Then do the full body workout, core workout and yoga workout from my exercise plan three days a week, occasionally the arm workout. A little vague? I hope not because it's all I got. I don't really have time on the days I work to workout so I really need to stick with this plan as best I can.

Eating Better- I'm trying to stay away from the word diet because in my head that means temporary. I want a whole change. I want to do this forever, not just until I loose the weight or whatever. I want to raise my son so he doesn't have to try and make these changes later in life. Basically that means less processed and fast food. More fresh fruits and veggies with home cooked meals. Make my current recipes healthier. I know that is isn't very specific. Like I said before this is where I have the least amount of info. I'm still trying to figure out what really is healthier and better. It seems like every day I hear something that contradicts what I heard last week. This is really frustrating for me and I'm doing my best to figure it all out.

That is pretty much it. I'm really working on changing my life so I'm happy to take my time. Usually I want results now and I try to do it all within the first week and I get burnt out. I know that I'm not going to be perfect but I'm open to any suggestions you all may have. What works for you may work for me or it may not. And visa versa. I can only hope to do good at this and make my life better.