I turned 53 a couple of weeks ago, and the night before my birthday a new personal slogan came to mind: "Finding me at 53". I want to find the real me who has been buried underneath all this fat for so many years.
I was just reading the thread about how overwhelming it is to realize you have to lose over 100 pounds. I'm in that boat. It's SO overwhelming that many times, it causes me to throw in the towel before I even make any progress.
Someone mentioned not worrying about how long it takes to lose the weight, even if it takes two years. I thought, hey, that might work for me. My body loses S-L-O-W-L-Y, and I do mean SLOWLY. It'll take me 2 years to lose what I need to lose, if not more (but I'm trying not to think of the "if not more" part).
In thinking about the next 2 years, and how much I have to lose, I decided that my new goal will be to weigh 155 when I turn 55, which will be in August of 2011.
As of today, I need to take off 127lbs to get to that goal.
I have no idea if I can do it or not, but I'm going to do my best to get there. I'll have to take off 1.32lbs each week to meet this goal.
It really is overwhelming to think about, and I haven't had much luck with losing for many years now, so I don't know what's going to happen.
All I know is that I have to try to do this...
I'm writing this here so that I'll have something to look back on, hopefully when I'm much smaller and healthier!