Preseason Task 2 - 'Set your Goal'

So I've got to set myself some goals.  What is it that I want out of this next 3 months and even further down the track.  And these have to be S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and TIme-based)

I also have some personal goals that will impact on the weight loss/fitness goals.  I want to become pregnant again in the next 3 months.  The drugs that the dr. put me on made me gain the weight.  So here are my goals

1 Month Goal

Lose 4kg

Run 1km non stop

3 Month Goal

Lose 10kg.  My ultimate is to get back into size 12.  To fit back into my wedding dress.

Run 5km without stopping.  Attend the Dubbo Stampede Fun Run

6 month Goal.

Try to get to size 10, or at least maintain size 12. However if pregnant, maintain healthy diet
Join the running club and attend Mudgee and Orange runs.

Go on a cruise!

12 month Goal.

Maintain excerxise and eating well. 

City 2 Surf 2013

Pre-Season 1 - 'Get Real - No More Excuses'

I have been tasked to list my excuses and solutions.  I always seem to come up with at least 1 or 2, infact I find myself driving back from work scratching my head to come up with a really good one so that I DON"T have to go to the gym!   Here is what I submitted:

Internal Excuses

1 - I'm too tired
2 - I'm too lazy
3 - I won't be able to do it
4 - I don't have the energy
5 - I don't have the motivation / just don't WTFDI!!
6 - I look stupid/fat next to them at the gym
7 - I've already stuffed up today
8 - It's a special occassion

Internal Solutions

1 - Go to bed EARLIER! - stop watching mindless tv in bed.
2 -
3 - Just a little more every time.  An extra 100m to build up.
4 - Umm...that could be because you are carrying around an extra 15kg!!
5 - Get motivated - JFDI.  Make myself accountable to other people to be there to do it.
6 - Yes, but i'm sure they weren't all skinny arsed to begin with!
7 - The longer you leave it the worse it will be!
8 - Try having a different type of 'good' special treat available

External Excuses (within my control)

1 - Bad weather
2 - Too Busy (socially and with work)
3 -  It's too late to cook
4 - Sore muscles/legs/arms

External Solutions

1 - Umm...you drive to the gym, and then workout in the gym!?!  Or do a dvd in comfort of own home.
2 - Diarise.   Plan in out before hand.  Make the habit.
3 - Plan plan plan.  Have some extras in the freezer for when you get stuck or something happens out of the ordinary.
4 - Remember to stretch.  Have a nice warm shower or get DH to massage them.  Remember - my muscles must be waking up and going into shock - they are getting used!

External Excuses (outside of my control)

1 - I'm Sick
2 - EJ is sick

 

External Solutions

1 - Take it easy and gradually get back into it.
2 - You are a mum, you are needed.  Do whatever you can whenever you are able to.

RED FLAG    RED FLAG      RED FLAG    RED FLAG    RED FLAG    RED FLAG

So as you can see I've approached a 'red flag'.  For those that don't know red flags are those pesky disruptions that disrupt your training or good eating or BOTH!

I've been hit with the cold...I've got cottonwool head and a tap for a nose.  Grr...  BUT... I have been eating clean.  Haven't been the most organised person to be thinking of food ahead of time and shopping in advance.  Instead it has been a quick trip to the grocery shop to get whatever I can make quickly.  Trying to eat as cleanly as I can, so there has been lots of salad with chicken, stirfrys and those kind of things.  Not as good as I want it to be, but it's better than the alternative....TAKEAWAY!!

Heading to Melbourne for a conference which is meant to be catered so I'm hoping that there are some options for those of us that are trying to eat well.  Otherwise would it be terrible if I brought my own?  Hmm...not sure about that one.  On the flipside where we are staying is very close to Anytime Fitness which I am a member of.  So I should (theoretically) be able to still get my training in if I'm not too side-tracked by all the Melbourne nightlife.  Hoping to be able to get across to the Queen Victoria Markets and suss out all the beautiful produce that I don't have access to at home

So to sum up I will just try my best to avoid food I know I shouldn't be eating and actively try to source 'good' food.  I will still aim to burn my 500cal a day.  Whether it be at the gym or walking around Melbourne window-shopping!

My Goal

I have been bit by the traveling bug.  I have done heaps of traveling in the past, but was stopped short after I saw photos and videos of myself when in New Zealand.  Heaviest I had ever been I looked like a big fat eskimo in the snow.   Haven't been away on holidays really since.  Of course there are the family holidays where you are the one behind the camera but nothing where the emphasis is on myself and what I do on those holidays.

I want to go on a cruise.  After speaking to my parents about their cruising adventures - I WANT IN!!  But I don't want to go on a cruise hopping around exotic islands hiding behind a big towel or some big swimming poncho.  I want to be able to not be terrified about my body in swimmers.  I'm not a bikini kind of girl, but I would love to be able to look and FEEL good wearing a bikini top and swimming shorts.

So I want to be able to get down to a size 12.  This is what I was before I was married (at one stage even a size 10).  I am now up to a size 16 and have had enough of being disapointed when the clothes on the rack just don't look good on me.

So I have 20kg to loose.  Already I have lost 3.7kg in the past 3 weeks in Warm Up with the 12wbt program.  It officially kicks off June 4 so I'm hoping that I will be able to consistently lose this weight and be able to MAINTAIN the loss.