The end of this year is coming up fast, with only 48 days left until the New Year I'm challenging myself to lose even more weight. I'm currently participated in the Hot 100 Challenge hosted by Steve at http://logmyloss.com/ . One of my goals in this challenge is to lose 20 lbs between September 23, 2010 and January 1, 2011, at the present time I have lost 16.4 lbs of this goal. My weigh in was yesterday and I weighed 219 lbs which means I'm only 19.1 lbs away from being in onederland. I'm setting a new personal goal to be under 200 lbs by New Years. I know this isn't going to be an easy task but who said everything had to be easy. That gives me almost 7 weeks to accomplish this goal which means I have to lose about 2.8 to 2.9 lbs a week. What a wonderful way to start off the New Year.Saturday, November 13, 2010
A New Year's Personal Challenge
The end of this year is coming up fast, with only 48 days left until the New Year I'm challenging myself to lose even more weight. I'm currently participated in the Hot 100 Challenge hosted by Steve at http://logmyloss.com/ . One of my goals in this challenge is to lose 20 lbs between September 23, 2010 and January 1, 2011, at the present time I have lost 16.4 lbs of this goal. My weigh in was yesterday and I weighed 219 lbs which means I'm only 19.1 lbs away from being in onederland. I'm setting a new personal goal to be under 200 lbs by New Years. I know this isn't going to be an easy task but who said everything had to be easy. That gives me almost 7 weeks to accomplish this goal which means I have to lose about 2.8 to 2.9 lbs a week. What a wonderful way to start off the New Year.
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I struggled with what to type here, but I am going with my gut. I don't know if this is a great idea Christina. I just think that is a big goal for such a short time. I hope you are able to do it and will be your biggest cheerleader, but I worry that you will go hard hard hard then burn out and give up all together if you aren't on track. Now that being said, I love setting goals! I just think that setting too high or too low of a goal puts you at danger. I confess that I don't know off the top of my head what your loss history is in terms of how much you lose on optimal performance weeks. I just don't want to see you fail and fall off the wagon all together. But hey, I say go for it if you honestly believe it si doable!!
ReplyDeleteI see what you are saying Shane and it is a big goal but I'm really not going to push myself any harder than I am right now. I'm just going to try to watch what I eat more carefully, increase my water intake, stay on top of my exercise and do my best. If I hit my goal great, if I don't then I know I did the best I could. This goal is just a way to get myself one step closer to being under 200 lbs. The reason I set this goal was because I have been able to lose 16.4 lbs in the last 7 weeks and if I can keep that pace up then I will be close to being under 200 by New Years. If I can just get closer to 200 by New Years I will be happy. I just like challenging myself. Thanks for your concern though but nothing is getting me to give up my weight loss ever.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with this challenge. I'm way too new a reader and commenter to your blog to know you well enough to say whether this is a good challenge or not, but I wanted to say that I find reading about your thoughts and your progress incredibly motivating, and I'm wishing you all the best.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Starfire, I'm just taking things one day at a time and trying to make the best of each day. It amazes me how far I've come already. I remember whining because I was losing weight so slowly and now here I am 3 months later and almost 30 pounds gone. There is noway I'm giving up now, not when I'm so close to being under 200 lbs and then its all downhill from there. I wish you all the best on your weight loss journey to.
ReplyDeleteBeing under 200 was my hot 100 goal as well! It really is a big stretch to make this happen, but if anything, I think having that goal will help curb some of the holiday grazing (at least for me!). If we don't make it, we're at least that much closer. I think you can do it!
ReplyDeleteWhile this is a big goal, it isn't impossible. Here's the thing - no matter what you can go out of this year giving it your all. That is all you can ask for. You can do this!
ReplyDelete~South Beach Steve
Thanks Mrs D and Steve, thats exactly what I plan on doing, giving it my all and ended this year with the biggest weight loss I can.
ReplyDeleteI think if you do just that - focus on doing the best you can do without any additional expectation, you'll consider it a success. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI think so to fatgirlwearingthin, I want to end this year with a bang.
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