I wrote about my night of being inspired by kickboxing and to be honest, have not thought of much else since. That athlete who resides deep with me is beginning to push its way out.... I can feel it... my internal dialogue is no longer screaming that I can't do it, my mind is now automatically telling me,"you got this - they are doing it, you can do it too"
Now I realize that this is still quite a ways off and it is going to take a lot of hard work on my part to get from where I am now, to getting into a ring and kick boxing but you know what, I never in a million years thought that I would be where I am today in comparison to where I was 2 years ago.
So this morning when my trainer met me at the gym, I told him I have made a decision, I want to kick box in a tournament..... then I followed it up with "now don't tell me I can't do it, even if you think I'm too old, or not skilled enough, just let me try and work towards it anyway" I guess there is still a little bit of the old me who doubts my abilities and has limitations on what I can do. My trainer, is on board with this. I have decided that I want to work towards losing 40lbs by January, which will take me to around 200lbs, and then I will join the hard core gym where I can train to fight.
I am super excited about this. I keep thinking about the day I joined the gym just under 2 years ago and telling my trainer that my goal was to do a try a tri..... he got excited about that goal and made it possible for me to get there..... and I have faith that he will be able to get me to this new goal as well.
Onward and downward
Showing posts with label 2010 goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010 goals. Show all posts
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
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.
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.
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