Starting weight: 234
Fat: 72
I have really set myself up for a challenge this time. I am at second highest starting weight, ever. My calf is still suspect. My fitness level is not good.
I have to divide my goals up into short and long term goals in order not to get overwhelmed by the mountain I have created for this climb.
Long term: Weigh in at 190 at year end and run 2016 NY Marathon in 3:30.
Short term:
Labor Day: 220
Dunlap wedding: 215
Halloween: 200 OVER UNDER
Thanksgiving: 195
Christmas 190
That is an aggressive plan and is a SIX month diet (24 weeks) to lose 44 pounds...about 7 pounds per month , just under 2 per week.
I want to be accountable to myself, my goals, my ambitions, my progress, my success and my failures. I want to break the cycle. Make it a life...not a diet. That why I am not crash coursing for a marathon as the end goal. I want to not put myself under the physical pressure of training, of that other mountain on back end.
IF I get to 190 on January 1, I will do something special in Spring 2017, like a big race or something. But I will not tee that up until I am there. I don't want the added pressure or the race looming that defines the schedule.
This time...this time.
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.
1. HEALTH -- I cannot, should not be overweight. It is bad for me, my health, my well being. It impacts the kids, their lives and my future.
2. APPEARANCE -- I like clothes to look good. I like to look in mirror. I like to feel proud of myself and my body.
3. IMAGE -- I want to be an athletic man who can do athletic things. Not struggling to walk stairs. I want others to see fitness in me, not pudgy or big guy.
I have history against me. Fathers genes, mothers relatives' genes. Must be vigilant, stay the curse.
Small changes create large results over time. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Winter is coming. Be prepared.
1. Less Alcohol -- Drink only on weekends, max 2 drinks. Period. No excuses.
2. No chips -- No excuses.
3. Eliminate Diet Soda.
4. No meat/chicken before dinner
5. Salad for lunch if possible
6. One piece hand fruit every day
