triggbr

I finally woke up and realized that I should NOT be this heavy. I carry the weight fairly well for the amount that I have, but it’s time to say goodbye to old habits and welcome a much better lifestyle. I have to lose about 73 pounds and it would be fantastic if I could reach my goal by the time I start college in August 2009. That gives me roughly 8 months, so 73 pounds is reasonable…right? Right now, I weight 198 pounds (it’s my stubborn goal not to let that number reach 200. I have never reached 200 and I don’t plan to ever get there.) and it would be within my healthy weight range to drop down to 125 pounds.

In addition to starting college in August 09, I may also be traveling to Germany in the beginning of June. It would be nice to be about 140 by then. I don’t expect to be 125 in June.

My plan of action is pretty simple and I think I can stick to this. I have tried, unofficially of course, to reduce my calorie count to 1200. I “test drove” the limit before I actually start tomorrow (I know, I’m stupid for starting a diet before the holidays, but we don’t really have a huge meal or anything, so this is a fine time to start). This will help me ease into it. “Unofficial” sounds much better than “this is the diet, so stick to it!”

In addition to calorie reduction, I plan to do Walk Away the Pounds (it’s a DVD, but hey, it’s below freezing here and I AM NOT walking around outside) in the mornings. I will start at 2 miles. That’s half an hour. Then, I think I will hop on the recumbent bike for around half an hour at night.

The walking DVD claims 15 pounds can be dropped in 6 weeks. Assuming this is correct, I will, after the first six weeks, do 3 miles and up my time on the recumbent bike to about an hour since the 3 miles ends up being only 36 minutes (not enough to consider it an increase). After the second 6 weeks, I will increase to 4 miles, and so on. I calculated it and I should be able to lose 73 pounds in 15 pound increments and still make my goal of 8 months.

Sorry this was so long, but it really helps for me to write out my “game plan.”

Peace,

triggbr