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Goals: New and Old 

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I’ve been doing a system when it comes to my goals I want to reach.

I have my long term goals that will obviously take a while, such as…

-Weigh 145, then focus more on toning

-Work out 1-2 hrs, 5 days a week

But then I have my immediate goals that I’m having to do my baby-steps process so I don’t get discouraged trying to do them all at once.

My first baby step was, of course, dropping soda. I gave myself 2 weeks to reach that goal then I added dropping sweets.

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Well…I failed that one. 😦 

BUT that’s okay.

I’ve come to terms with the fact that I don’t think I can completely go without sweets, at least not at this moment, so I have went to no sweets during the week, and one small treat on Saturday and Sunday. I’ve found allowing myself these small treats is much more beneficial, because when I completely deny myself I BINGE, or I overeat other stuff trying to fix the cravings. Hopefully one day I will kick sweets to the curb, but from someone who was eating sweets after lunch and dinner daily, I think this is a huge stride and I will gladly accept it!

Anyways, on to my new goals for the next two weeks I’m focusing on:

-Stick to a meal plan. I want to eat 3 well balanced meals, and 2 small healthy snacks a day. I’m really bad about skipping breakfast and barley eating at lunch, then at dinner in starving and eat too much sometimes.

-Drink 100 oz of water daily. This includes drinking one glass of lemon water every morning. I’ve done great switching to just drinking water but I don’t drink enough. 

-Workout at least 30 minutes a day, but try for 45-60, at least 5 days a week. I’m wanting to still stick to mainly cardio but also add in some area focused exercises also.

-No eating after 7:00 pm. I’m super bad at eating late and I’ve got to break that habit. I’ve been doing better about it but I really want to focus more on this! 

I feel like doing small goals really helps me on the long run. Do you guys make weekly goals for yourself?

♥This Happy Healthy Life 

Intro: Getting Back to Me

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I’ve been considering starting a blog to document my weight loss journey and decided to finally just do it. I am a wife and mother of three, so this isn’t something I have a lot of extra time for but it is something that I feel like I NEED while I’m on this journey.

Let me tell you a little about where I’m at and how I got there…

It has been almost 4 years since I had my third child. Before having children, and immediately after each child I was a 75% healthy eater and a 1-2 hour a day, 4-5 days a week certified gym rat. I was never much on weights, but I did do cardio like crazy, and I was in good shape. After our third child I was 20 lbs shy of my pre-baby weight when baby 3 was 4 months old, I was on track and had no problem working hard. I was at a weight I felt comfortable with but I wanted to start toning so I signed up to try out the personal trainer at the gym, after my first session I ended up at the doctors in a lot of pain in my abdomen, the next week I was seeing a general surgeon for an umbilical hernia. After this, I let myself just go down a rabbit hole of putting off exercise and I started eating horribly. It’s one of those things that you don’t really see happening until it’s too late and you are addicted to sugar, eating without thinking, and just too lazy to do anything about it. I ended up packing on 60 pounds over the past 3.5 years. I got all the way up to 220 lbs, which is a weight I never even hit during my pregnancies.

My normal weight, and my comfort zone weight has always been around 145. It’s where I feel good at. I’m far far away from that weight now. I have recently lost some since I FINALLY decided I’m fed up with feeling the way I do about myself. I’m now at 214, and I want to be under 200 by the end of the year.

I have wanted to lose weight and been trying, and FAILING for over a year now. Some days I’m fine, those days where I can just wear my yoga pants and tshirts, I feel okay, but then those times when the husband wants to go out, or I have places to go that I need to put on real clothes, I get down. I HATE feeling this way. These past few years I’ve had low self esteem and low confidence, which has been a new feeling for me. I haven’t been myself because of it, this is something that MUST change.

All that failing I spoke of, I think I finally figured out why…every time I would decide I was going to do this lifestyle change I would dive head first and try to do like I used to do, and I’ve FINALLY realized that I can’t do that. I can’t expect the body I have to do what the body I used to have could do. SO I looked at all the choices I made and I started making small goals for myself. I decided it was time to take baby steps.

So 7 weeks ago I started taking baby steps. I gave up soda, which was the hardest and biggest challenge I knew I would face. I was drinking sodas ALL day long, I gave it up cold turkey and I can not tell you how much better I feel now.

Anyways, I’m going to start sharing my journey here. It’s going to be a slow one. A hard one. I’m going to have struggles and I’m going to have days that I fail. I’ve accepted that, and for this reason I think I will be able to do it this time.

♥This Happy Healthy Life