Plan and Goals

This plan will begin on January 1.  I am not even fucking around with trying this during Christmas...I know my limits, and that is one of them.

I am still a member of Weight Watchers online, and I intend to be GLUED to that site throughout the day.  I will shop according to a strict Weight Watchers-approved diet, and I will make every effort to not go over my daily points allowance.  I will pretend as though I have no weekly points to spend, and I will pretend as though any exercise I do will not count toward my point allowance.  I will attempt to go to meetings, as long as I can afford it.

I am going to join my local YMCA.  This will be expensive...like $53 per month...but, for the ability to workout whenever I want, and the ability to do classes and stuff like that, I'm ok with that.  I guess it's a good thing that I'm waiting until January 1...they've apparently just had a fire in their facility (!), but should be opening up again soon.

My workout regimen is going to be about 80% cardio, in the form of walking, biking, swimming, elliptical, and classes, and about 20% weight training, which I think is appropriate for my situation.  I need to SLOWLY ramp up the walking to running, so that I don't aggravate my shin splints...but, biking and swimming and all of that other stuff should make that transition easier, while still letting me lose weight.  Once I scope out the actual facility, I will come up with a more definite plan of exactly where I'm going to be spending my time.  One way or the other, my fat ass will be in that gym at least 5 days out of every week.

Now, goals.

For the purpose of neatness, I am going to calculate everything based on a goal of 24 pounds to lose, just so that it divides up evenly.  (I am neurotic.)  So, this means 24 pounds between January 1 and April 1...or, 8 pounds per month.  Not as terrible as I first thought, actually.  That works out really well...January 1 is a Sunday, and so is April 1, and there are exactly 13 weeks in there.  This means a weight loss of 2 pounds a week, with a little leeway in there for weeks when I don't do as well.

I need to note here that I am not going to track this day by day.  I will drive myself NUTS that way, because I'll feel like absolutely nothing is getting accomplished.  I am going to keep myself to a strict once-a-week weighing schedule, with weigh-ins happening on Fridays.

So, assuming a starting weight of 179 (I have 2 weeks to make sure I'm there)...I will be at 171 by February 1...163 by March 1...and 155 by April 1.  Wow...that feels SO fast...but it's still within the healthy range, so that's ok.  As long as I start Weight Watchers RIGHT AWAY on January 1, then I should be losing weight immediately instead of having to wait for the exercise to kick in.  'Cause that shiz takes forever.

Ok, I think that's good for now.  I will post measurements and a workout plan on December 31.  : )  Let the madness begin!

Starting Over

I need to resist the temptation to delete everything in this blog and start over completely.

There is some good stuff in here.  Granted, there is a lot of "Ok, we're gonna do this thing for REAL this time!" This is frustrating for me to look at, because it feels like I will always try and never succeed at this weight loss thing.  BUT, there is also a lot of good information about my trial and error process, which I need to keep.

But seriously, I'm done fucking around.  I'm tired of my clothes not fitting, I'm tired of always feeling self-conscious, I'm tired of all of it.

Also, I might soon have a WHOLE FUCKING LOT of motivation...it is looking like an engagement might be possible soon!  I don't want to say anything more definite, for fear or jinxing it or something...but there are strong indications that this will happen in the near future.  : )

SO, I need to lose a lot of fucking weight.  And soon...by April 1, I want to be down to at least 155 pounds.  This is a loss of roughly 25 pounds...I've been hovering around 180 lately, much to my horror.  That is a very rapid weight loss, and I'm not sure I can pull it off...but, I think with the right plan I can do it, or at least get close.

As per my usual preference, the actual plan and goals will be in another entry.  I like having one entry to which I can refer, without all of, well, this.  : )