Weight Loss: NOT MISSING IT!
Our anniversary is in May. This year, when our anniversary came around, I started looking at our wedding pictures. Around the same time, we started planning for an epic vacation in Aruba and I decided enough was enough. I would get rid of the weight for good. No gaining it back.
At first it was little changes. Slowly got back to taking more steps, walking after dinner and cutting back what I was eating. The last week of May, I told myself enough was enough. Come hell or high water *this* was my time. I was going to get ‘er done and never go back again.
The fourth of July is my first goal date. I created a countdown calendar to inspire me and help me go. I’ve been wearing my fitbit and tracking both my steps and calorie intake/burn. Five days into the journey, I’m down about 8 pounds and it hasn’t been hard. I decided to go back on to Atkins. The rest of my house is still eating normal, and I cook normal for them. The funny thing is even when I’m making my son french fries or making pasta, it doesn’t bother me, because this is *my* journey and I’m not doing it for anyone else.
Often, I think it’s a convenient crutch to say my husband, my child, my time, but ultimately I control myself and the choices and decisions I make. No one else can work off what I’ve put on.
I’m not going to lie. Sometimes it is hard to get the steps in. 11K is my goal. There are times when I don’t want to do it, and it comes to 6pm and I have 5K steps. There are times when I put on re-runs of biggest loser (I love you YouTube) and I just keep on walking until I hit my goal. Then, I add 2K because I can. Sometimes I have to put a brace on my ankle to keep it from hurting, but I do what I need to do because I’m going to look GREAT in Aruba. Not just good, but EPIC! I want a bikini shot next to some pink flamingos. There are days when that image is what gets me to push harder.
Today, I tried on some clothes that didn’t fit me last month. All of them fit comfortably. The shorts closed, the buttons were’t straining to hold in my boobs and I didn’t look like the clothes almost fit, because they fit. Tonight I go to the storage room and pull out clothes that haven’t fit me in about 5 years as the next clothes challenge. There’s this particular blue pattern dress I remember wearing in the Dominican Republic that’s going to fit me by next month.
Right now, I’m in the middle of at 35 day challenge. I told myself I’d be focused for 35 days – until the 4th of July. With a month to go, I’m going to drop 30 pounds. Next week, we start adding gym workouts to the mix to keep me going.
Here’s what the goal chart looks like:
| Date | Pounds Lost | Last time… |
| July 4th | 30 | After had baby |
| August 4th | 30 | Wedding |
| September 4th | 20 | 2013 |
| September 17th | 10 | High School |
Now that it’s out here and being published I really have to just kick it up a notch and make it happen. I know it’s ambitious, but I usually do best when I just decide it’s time to make it happen, then go for it as hard as I can. Will update the journey on July 4th. Wish me luck!!
