160 Days to Go

Okay, I get it.  I understand.  This may be the cheesiest thing I have ever done, but if it works, then it was worth it.  For the past couple of weeks, there was a new show out on MTV.  It profiled young people who were overweight.  They had 90 days to loose ninety pounds.  Although I would absolutely love to go for that, I need to make sure my goals and dreams are realistic.  I started thinking about when 90 days were.  It was in the middle of NOTHING!  All our family birthdays are in the winter.  There were no holidays or special celebratioins that came within 90 days.

So an idea came to mind.  I knew I had to have a yearly check-up with my doctor.  I then set up the date for July 1st.  I called the Woman's Clinic and asked for an appointment then.  I could tell the woman on the other side of the phone was very confused.  "You mean February, not July," she said.  "Nope, I want it July," I repeated.  Everything worked out, but little did she know, I wanted that date for a reason.  After hanging up with her, I got out my little calendar and started counting the days until July 1st.  I thought of a reasonal amount of weight I can loose.  I came up with fifty.  If I can accompish that, great.  If I can lose more than that, great.  I have to go into this with a positive attitude.  Another little cheesy thing I did was create a contract.  I basically wrote in there that I will have a positive attitude along with motivation on any weight I lose.  I will pick up where I left off, and leave the past in its past.  I also created a little word process page where I could print "so many days to go" on it.  I cut paper into 160 little 4X5 inch sections.  Loaded it into my printer, and let the printer do its job.  One hundred and sixty pages later, I was set...for that part anyways.

I had a conversation with my mom one night.  I told her how I was tired of trying to loose weight, and never sticking to it.  And many of you people who read this that know me, can vouch for that!  I told her I also wanted her to loose weight; especially for her health. Surprisingly she went along with it.  My approach is to cut calories, watch sodium, and cut down on carbs.  Her stradedgy is to eat as much fruit, veggies, and meat she wants.  That's fine, but I'm sticking with my approach because I know it works. 

So last night we went out to a couple of stores and got some healthy food.  We were browsing at this one store, and saw some organic yellow carrots, so we said lets try it.  Then we saw some collard greens.  So, we will try those as well. I may not know what I got myself into by picking those things up. Ha!  But at least I can say I tried them, rather than just saying I do not like them.  While shopping, I happened to look into a cart by a nearby shopper.  All they had in their cart was junk food.  Chips, fried food, soda, and the list goes on and on.  I looked into our cart and saw all these veggies and fruits.  We bought NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, that was junk food.  Everything was all natural, grown from the ground.  It felt good having all that natural food in my cart, rather than all that junk food. 

Thus brings me to this blog.  Everyday I will write on it, and share with you.  Everyday I will get one step closer to my goal.  I'm not looking back now, this is it.