ChubbyChicklet

Along with my posts and my progress I want to make it clear what my goals are.  Partly for the public and as I’ve said before, for accountability, but also for my own edification.  To remind myself toward what I am working and see how that lines up with my progress.

• Goal 1: Exercise 6 days per week for 12 weeks

This is big because if you’ve read my initial post you know that I’m lazy and I need to do something habitually in order for that something to really feel that I’ve changed my lifestyle.

• Goal 2: Lose 60 pounds

I’m starting at 186 so I admit that I have a long way to go and there will be many interim goals.

• Goal 3: Drink 60-70 ounces of water per day

I’m a coffee drinker.  I can easily put away a pot a day on my own and while I’m pretty sure that keeps my bladder constantly functioning it has negative ramifications for the rest of my body.

• Goal 4: Select a diet I can stick with

This probably sounds like a ridiculous thing to say because no one likes dieting and sticking with it is about will power not about preference, but since I lack will power where diet is concerned when I begin a diet I need to feel its something I can feasibly follow through on.

• Lose the cankles

This may seem like a silly goal because it will happen naturally as one loses weight but this is truly my greatest insecurity.  I can deal with being whatever size I am at the time as long as I’m “working on it” but I hate that I feel so sad and negative every time I put on a long skirt and see my ankles.  I’m the kind of girl that gains in her legs. Its where the bulk of my weight rides.  I do have large breasts and a pretty substantial lower belly these days but the extent of that isn’t visible to the world.  My ankles are in capris, leggings, skirts, or rollups over embellishes my overweight-ness.