2013 The Year Of Change

This year is my year of Change.  I am changing.  I am trying to figure out who I am.  What I am doing for my life and how I want this to work.

I've started off the year by scaring the crap out of myself by book a "photo shoot" in July.  I am keeping it as a goal for myself to lose weight.

Until now I thought I was doing "ok".  I thought I was losing weight nicely and not doing so bad.  Well.. I was wrong.  Last week was March Break and all hell broke lose in my house.  I ate everything in sight. 

So now I'm back on track.  I have a few goals in mind.  Right now the first one is to get down in weight. 

Starting weight:  243lbs (March 16th 2013 weight in)
First Goal of my own:  228lbs.  - This would be 15 pounds down from my weight now. 

Once I reach my First Goal I plan on buying some new clothes.  If I'm going according to my goals I want to be down 15lbs by 7 to 8 weeks.  This puts me around my 9 year Anniversary with Arnold.  I'm really hoping to buy a new dress for that date!

A friend, Amy, introduced me to this 30 day challenge by "Hiit".  There are different ones to go after it but generally this is the deal.  Each day for 30 days you do a different video.  At the end you see where you stand.  If things have changed.. you know.  The video series works that you do it for 6 days a week and have an "active rest day" on Sunday.  But I'm going to be changing how I plan it out.  A friend online is doing it with me.  Every Monday to Friday.  Saturday and Sundays we find we are so busy it just doesn't work out for us.  So this is the new plan.  I'll attach the calendar in the next post. 

I am also taking advantage of my local community centre.  I've been doing Aqua fit there for a while, and while it may not help me lose weight it does help me keep active.  I'm also doing their Zumba class on Thursdays. That class makes me sweat!!  I'm glad I"m taking it.

Right now my plans look something like this:

Monday - Aqua Fit and part of a 30 challenge called "Hiit"
Tuesday - Hiit workout and a 1 mile walk on the treadmill (increasing each week by 1 mile until 1 hour of walking/working out)
Wednesday - Hiit workout and meal plan for the next week
Thursday - Hiit workout and Zumba
Friday - Hiit workout and 1 mile walk on the treadmill

Saturday and Sunday would be "rest days".