Goals and Plans

So my weekends kinda got wonky because of the 4th of July and because I got sick the weekend before that. Needless to say things were kinda gross for a while there, and my stomach was really messing up. But I'm in my summer class now and even though its only been three days I seem to have a pretty decent plan for working out and having a good schedule for sleep, food, and class work.

My mom has totally inspired me to really think about the goals that I want to achieve. I have been looking at the weight watchers app the past month or so and while I only lost (and kept off) about 5 pounds I looked at the 5% goal that they want me to achieve and realized that there isnt a date cap on it. Its just- eventually we want you to lose 5% so you can move on toward a bigger goal.

I know chopping up goals is a good thing to do because its easy to look at the over all amount of weight you need to lose and think "I'll never get there" so I decided Monday to set a date goal for myself (also inspired by Extreme Weight Loss- Awesome TV show). I need to lose 8 more pounds, so I set a goal of 4 weeks. Two pounds a week is doable. I'm going to move my tracking day to Monday because I think it will help me keep myself accountable on the weekends. If I over eat- my weigh in will be baaad!

I started looking at small goals to set myself until the end of the year, because its not just going to stop with the first 5%. I want to keep this going, and to help keep me accountable I'll post my goals here. When I'm doing good I can lose about 10 pounds a month. These arent hard core- "if you dont lose THAT amount of weight by such and such date- you will die" kinda goals- they are just something to give myself to shoot for. Because I know I work better when I have a date and a goal to shoot for. 5 months isnt bad at all, and if I can lose 10 pounds a month (wow!) that would be awesome.

Starting weight 260

Lose 5% body weight: 247
Goal Date: 7-29-13

Lose 10% (from original weight): 234
Goal Date: 9-2-13

Lose 15% body weight: 221
Goal Date: 10-7-13

Lose 20% body weight: 208
Goal Date: 11-11-13

Lose 25% body weight: 195
Goal Date: 12-31-13

I realize that some of these are more than 2 pounds a week, which is more than 10 pounds a month. I'm going to try to see these first couple of months how this works, and if it needs to be revised... I'll do it!

I have to say that I dont seem to have a problem eating healthy and working out when I'm in Louisiana. Not really sure why. It just is easy here. Or at least it is right now. I think the hard thing will be when I get back full time into school. But you know, I really like what I'm doing now at the gym and I actually look forward to going. Especially on Zumba days. My plan is to do Zumba Monday and Wednesday, because those are the only days that I have off to be able to go, and on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday I'll run. My plan for the weekends, are to do some weight lifting and yoga. The weekends will be DVDs, I really do enjoy doing them, and if I need to change up what I'm doing on the weekend, I can always go swim or just do stretches. I know that doesnt leave a day off, but on the weekends I dont think I'll get much of a workout.

I'm so determined to do this! I saw some pictures of myself from the 4th of July that a family member posted on Facebook, and I hate thinking "Dear Lord! That's me!?!" So its time to kick this fat's ass!!