2010 - The Journey Continues

"Happy New Year Everyone. When you are making your resolutions for the New Year, think about how nice we are to one another during the holiday season and resolve to carry this through the enire year. Think about how wonderful life would be if it were Christmas all year long! author is me on my facebook page

I am feeling excited this morning. It is the dawn of a new year. A day that we wipe the slate clean and start all over again, only this year I don't want to wipe the slate clean, last year was an awesome year for me, so this year I want to build on the accomplishments from last year. Here are some of the goals I have set for 2010:

1. Get my weight down below 200 lbs by June 5.

2. workout at the gym 3 times a week (in addition to the 3 days I currently work with my trainer)

3. Do at least 1, 5k race this summer and get my time down to 40 minutes or less

4. Complete my first triathlon(try a tri)in June-swim 375m, bike 10k run 2.5k

5. Complete a second triathon in August -swim 750m, bike 25k, run 7k

Wow, ok there I said it, I want to do an actual triathon in August. The race is on August 8, which is 6 days after I turn 44 years old! I know that this is a pretty lofty goal, but I am going to do it. I'm going to prove to myself that I can do it.

Now the hard part is not the actual doing it, it will be in the getting my body ready to do it, and that is going to take a lot FOCUS and a lot of hard work. I know I need to buckle down in the food department in order to achieve my goal so my main challenges are:

- eat out with friends only 1 time per month (making wise food choices and no alcohol)
- eat fast food (burger and fries) 1 x every three mos, or 4 times in the next year!
- No junk food. I am going try to just keep away from it altogether
- Eat non processed foods the majority of the time
- practice food combining, which I am still learing about, but basically not eating carbs with protein (I think)

Now I have to tell you I do love me some burger and fries and onion rings so this will be tough, however I'm hoping, if I know that I will be able to have them again soon, it may make it easier to abstain from binging.

Finally, as I was thinking about this morning post something came to me with such clarity that I thought I better write it down. I have spend most of my life trying to lose weight, seriously since I was about 12 yrs old, and I just kept getting fatter and fatter and that caused more stress, made me feel more like a failure and it turned into a vicious cycle causing more damage than good. But I realize now that you have to heal your mind and your heart before you can heal your body. This is definitely an ongoing proceess, but I am no longer spinning my wheels, I think this whole weight loss thing and what I need to do to get healthy is starting to become clear to me, and that makes me very happy and excited.