Some Simple Goals For This Week:
(inspired by songbird, tiggerlane, Kelly, Autumn, and Dominique, all of whom have left me encouraging comments to posts concerning my weight issues. Thanks ladies!)
- I will count calories for the next five days and eat 2200 calories or less each day. (which indicates to you that I must be consuming WAY more than that if 2200 is the dieting calorie allowance. But I'm not going to tell you exactly how much I consume normally per day, because I don't want to.)
- I will wake up at six am every morning for five mornings and take Chick on at least a 45 minute walk, or more if I don't die first.
- Then I will do fifty crunches, fifty push-ups (the sissie kind, in case anyone was wondering), and forty-eight lunges.
- I will go to bed by 10:30pm each night (to help facilitate the early rising time).
- I will erase every unkind thought about myself from my brain as they pop up and remember that, against all likelihood-and who knows why, I have quite a few incredible friends who seem to love me even when I'm shaped like the Michelin Man.
Why only five days? Because it's doubtful I'll even make it that far. But if I do, then I'll do another five days after one day free of counting calories. Ultimate goal? Well, I weigh 210 whopping pounds. I want to weigh 160 pounds. (I actually want to weigh 150 pounds, but it's unlikely I'd be able to maintain that weight if I managed to reach it.) I'll be happy to be 160. Not thin, but able to buy regular clothes from regular stores and not feel like Harry Potter's bloated floating Aunt.
The truth? I did it before. I can do it again.