Octoberfest

Well, my friends, it's been a month.

Drum roll please... and I'm down 7 pounds.

To me it's not really enough, however it is 7 lbs less than month.  There have been so many ups and downs in the past month I can't even count.  Needless to say, losing weight is quite possibly the hardest thing for me to take on, and I'm just getting started.

Daunting to say the least.

But today is a new month, and now that I kinda have a idea of how to get through a day under 1700 calories, and I'm just wanting to celebrate for some reason.  A month is longer than I thought I'd make, and certainly longer than I've done in the past few years. So I don't lose it as fast as I thought (why I thought that I'll never know), I really don't care.  It's about getting through each day and feeling better than the last.

And today, I feel pretty good.  So good, in fact, I wanted to add more goals to this month.  Now that the food part handled, I'm going to add in the exercise.  I know I'm not in the worst shape since I've been pretty faithful to my spin class, but I could use a little consistency.  Trying to keep food in control and add the exercise is when it gets really tricky, but I also think this is where the real difference lies when losing weight.  For the past few years, I've tried one or the other, but not both.

God, I love a challenge :)

Call me crazy, but this is actually starting to get interesting to me.

Have a great day!  

Challenges

Who doesn't love a good challenge?  I like to think that I do, but when push comes to shove, I'm not sure I'm ever really up for completing them.  To face a challenge, especially life changing ones, a person needs to arm themselves for a battle and believe they will succeed in the end.

Well, it seems that I have taken on a challenge today.  I didn't wake up thinking I wanted to take the next six months to work on losing weight, but here we are.  And yes I am.

If there was one area in my life that I have continually disappointed myself in, it's my health.  I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I worked out in 2011, so this year with my spin obsession, I literally thought the weight would just fall off.

Well, it didn't.

And I realize that at my age and with my circumstances in life, I need a plan and a goal.  A different plan other that winging it, I suppose.

So, I have my armor in tact, my plan in place (at least for this month), and a goal in mind that is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely).  Yes, my company's seminars have come in handy through the years.

And I'm putting it all out there for you to see.

If I can inspire just one person to take a six month challenge (okay, another person) I'll be happy.

Prepare for battle, my friends. It's a marathon, and we will finish it together.