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Good morning STACers. I am up early, as usual. This is my time, where I reflect and write and focus on all that I am doing. Where I plot and plan and dream big!
Goals? Do you have a goal you are working towards, outside of a weightloss number? In the early days of Atkins I exercised, because it was required! My goal was to just get it done each and every day! I found "its place" in my life and routine, and I made sure I did it no matter what! Because of that I now have a base of fitness in my life. I can do certain things easily now. I have also reached the place of being bored with the same o same ol...
I have set milage goals to attain each month, and that made me go farther than I would have without them. I have used different equipment and even shifted from my easy, convienent bike in front of the TV for the treadmill around the corner...which was so difficult for me to do. I started jogging one mile without stopping..again very hard! Now I interval walk jog 2mi.
I met fellow ADBB member, Adena one day at the park, she was and is training for a half marathon. I thought she was crazy, and i would coast on my bike beside her just to hang out. The second time we did this, I decided I would love to start jogging like she and my daughter were doing. My daughter and I jogged 2.2 without stopping the week of Thanksgiving. I basically crippled myself for days! But have been jogging ever since, every once in a while doing the 2.2 loop at the lake again.
2 weeks ago my daughter and I decided to "SET A GOAL" to enter and jog in the Peachtree Road Race a 10k event in Atlanta held on July 4th. 55,000 people do it. Why not us too. So because of that goal, yesterday Caitlin and I met with Adena who was going for 7mi and we went 4.4 miles.
I have not gone 4.4 miles since I was in my early 20's. I had not been thinking of such an under taking like that before working out with Adena. They laugh and ask me each week if I am entering this half marathon yet. I know I can't get there yet, but I can continue to slowly work towards the Peachtree...The coolest thing of all is my daughter and i branched out, stretched out and have gone after something almost unthinkable to us.
Because it's our focus, we eat right, drink more water and exercise to build our base of fitness, it's given us something beyond WEIGHTLOSS to go after.
As you settle into your routine with Atkins, a daily life structure of eating, water and exercise, it's all to build a level of strenght so you too can go for bigger and better things, beyond survival is a broad wide open place of many opportunities to enhance your life! Once you have the food water and exercise down pat, and organized, start reaching for more LIFE!!!!!
Goals? Do you have a goal you are working towards, outside of a weightloss number? In the early days of Atkins I exercised, because it was required! My goal was to just get it done each and every day! I found "its place" in my life and routine, and I made sure I did it no matter what! Because of that I now have a base of fitness in my life. I can do certain things easily now. I have also reached the place of being bored with the same o same ol...
I have set milage goals to attain each month, and that made me go farther than I would have without them. I have used different equipment and even shifted from my easy, convienent bike in front of the TV for the treadmill around the corner...which was so difficult for me to do. I started jogging one mile without stopping..again very hard! Now I interval walk jog 2mi.
I met fellow ADBB member, Adena one day at the park, she was and is training for a half marathon. I thought she was crazy, and i would coast on my bike beside her just to hang out. The second time we did this, I decided I would love to start jogging like she and my daughter were doing. My daughter and I jogged 2.2 without stopping the week of Thanksgiving. I basically crippled myself for days! But have been jogging ever since, every once in a while doing the 2.2 loop at the lake again.
2 weeks ago my daughter and I decided to "SET A GOAL" to enter and jog in the Peachtree Road Race a 10k event in Atlanta held on July 4th. 55,000 people do it. Why not us too. So because of that goal, yesterday Caitlin and I met with Adena who was going for 7mi and we went 4.4 miles.
I have not gone 4.4 miles since I was in my early 20's. I had not been thinking of such an under taking like that before working out with Adena. They laugh and ask me each week if I am entering this half marathon yet. I know I can't get there yet, but I can continue to slowly work towards the Peachtree...The coolest thing of all is my daughter and i branched out, stretched out and have gone after something almost unthinkable to us.
Because it's our focus, we eat right, drink more water and exercise to build our base of fitness, it's given us something beyond WEIGHTLOSS to go after.
As you settle into your routine with Atkins, a daily life structure of eating, water and exercise, it's all to build a level of strenght so you too can go for bigger and better things, beyond survival is a broad wide open place of many opportunities to enhance your life! Once you have the food water and exercise down pat, and organized, start reaching for more LIFE!!!!!
Great thoughts, Jess! I have already noticed a grand difference in how this WOE is spilling over into other areas of my life (read: goal setting) as compared to last time. I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser, so perhaps that explains it. It's no longer *just* about reaching my weight goal. It's about improving my entire self and life. 
Add to this that I fear that the meds will mess with my weight loss and that my face still feels like it will explode any moment
and well, I am just ready to feel like my normal eating healthy self again!! 
life ...
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