SO! It's been almost a week and I'm struggling to get my butt up to work out. Now, it's not because I'm motivated. Because I am...I'm just finding it hard to find the time. But I figured I'd talk a little bit about my goals...and hopefully that'll help me pinpoint time frames :)
Last summer I actually started to really try to lose some weight. I've been an athlete plagued with injuries (wrenching my knee, dislocating my shoulder, appendicitis, well I think you get the idea) and it's been hard for me to be consistently active and healthy. I hate not being consistent. I think it's one of the most important things for someone to be. You have to be consistent in your life to really make things happen. Well anywho, about June/July I really started to work out and make a real effort to make myself feel better. By the end of the summer I had lost roughly 8 pounds and I looked like I had some muscle on my. What was even better was the fact that I felt a million times better. I didn't feel like I as always struggling to keep up with my life or like I was always about to fall asleep. Since then it's been up and down because of crazy schedules at school and such, and since then I've dropped another 2-3 pounds. So in all I'm 10 or 11 pounds lighter than I was last summer.
Now this was also the summer I tried the no shampoo thing (which wasn't all that bad) and I worked like a crazy person and then took on a new semester of nursing school. So I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm being a little over dramatic thinking that I can't manage to make time to do SOMETHING even though this semester will be even crazier than the last three.
Back to the point. I've talked to my doctor and I'm technically "obese" even though I don't even look close to it. I'm 5'7 and I look a little heavy, but not obese. A point that I'd love to make, by the way, is that those charts that they use don't take into consideration a lot of things. I'll tell you right now I'm built like an Irish boxer. There's no denying that I'm half Irish (the other half is Portuguese - I know...weird mix) and that I was built to be an athlete and what not. So one of my goals is to embrace that fact. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'll probably never be considered 'voluptuous' or have a Kardashian (should I put a copyright there...? ;) ) butt or anything like that. I won't be petite or a 'tiny little thing'...but I'm starting to realize that my body is the only body I'll ever get. You don't get many redo's when it comes to taking care of the one ya got. So here goes. My dad has high blood pressure and I'm worried about it. My brother has Type I Diabetes. So far every test I've had has come up clean. I have consistently low BP (usually 102/65ish) and great cholesterol. I'm going to start taking advantage of the momentum that I have left over from the summer.
So here's my first goal. By valentine's day (my one year anniversary with my amazing, handsome, supportive, caring, gentle, kind, and - ahem. Sorry) I'd like to have lost about 5 pounds. But that isn't the only part of it - I want to start looking toned. I want to be able to do at least one pull up (at some point in my life not necessarily Valentines haha) and do 10 actual push ups without putting my knees down. I also want to cut down my (already pretty small) soda intake down by at least half. I drink about 2-5 cans/servings of soda in a week and I really need to stop drinking it. I have issues with gluten, and a lot of the caramel coloring and ingredients have gluten. We'll leave that to another post though :)
My friends, let us toast our water and other healthy drinks such as green tea to accepting ourselves as who we are. Because the mirror doesn't lie...we do. And we all deserve to look at that mirror and realize that the mirror was telling us we were beautiful the whole time.
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