Time to Set Some Goals...

One thing that is making this journey a little easier to travel through is the fact that I have some goals in mind for what I want to do and how I want to feel at the end of it. For the immediate I want to lose weight, eat better and gain some energy. While these goals are great ones to have, they are vague. One thing I have found is that my goals need to be concrete. I have to have a timeframe, a number or a size to shoot for. Now timeframe in this instance is my best friend Makayla's wedding on October 11th. I have about 6 months to lose about 30 pounds. I think this is a great and realistic goal which is always a good thing. I'm not a contestant on "The Biggest Loser" who doesn't have a job to do everyday except to workout and eat right and do what the producers tell me to do. I have a job, friends, commitments, family to juggle as well as a trip or three planned as well as working out and eating right. 
Now that I have chosen to make my health a priority finally, I don't want to screw it up so goals are going to be a sure fire way to make sure that I stay on track and keep my eyes on the prize.

My Overall Goal is to be a healthy weight for my size, be happy and finally feel like the thin girl I have always wanted to be.

My first checkpoint to get there is to complete this 100 day workout challenge I have decided on and to measure my success initially on how I feel and not necessarily how I look or what the number on the scale says. Now of course those are important things too, like finally breaking free of the "300 club" or going down a size or two when I go shopping. A big part of this goal is also to be taken off all of the meds I am currently on. 

My next checkpoint is to make sure that when we take pictures at Makayla's wedding in October they are finally pictures that I am proud of display on my desk at work. I want to look at the picture as see all the hard work I have put into getting to that point and be happy that day for all the right reasons and not be self conscience that I am still the "BIG" girl in the bridal party. Now granted I will most likely still be the biggest size dress in those wedding pictured but that won't matter because I will have still dropped a couple of sizes from when the dress was first tried on and I can take it to the Bridal Shop and prove that snotty dress consultant wrong. (I would like to take this opportunity to point out that I have the most amazing friends [aka Makayla] who if I hadn't stopped her would have gone up to said dress consultant and would have either punched her or at least verbally bitch slapped her. You are the best friend a girl could ever have)

After that my next checkpoint is that I will once again fit into the racing suit that I wore when I swam in high school over 7 years ago. Or for that matter, feel comfortable in my own skin.

After that checkpoint I don't have anything else in mind at this point but I'm sure I will come up with something crazy to make sure that I keep working towards a goal and better life.