Hi guys. I know it is a weird number. Why 53, not 50 or 55? I guess because I woke up weighing 252 this morning and 53 pounds will put me just under the 200 mark. Why July? I have a meeting with my family then, and I want to be thinner than I've ever been around them (they live a few hundred miles away) for years anyway.
My plan? I'm going to set very small goals no more than 3 or 4 pounds at a time. I'm going to work toward meeting those little bitty goals and as I reach each one I'm going to feel like I accomplished something WONDERFUL and then I'm going to set a new goal. Every little success will spur me on to do a new challenge, meet a new goal and reach it.
For January I've already set 4 goals. 3 of which I've reached. To be honest I don't believe anyone can lose 50 pounds. I've done it and I just don't believe it is possible! Why? because looking forward at 50 pounds is discouraging. Looking back at it isn't hard. So baby baby steps. 3 or 4 pounds at a time and NO more than that.
But, say we set a 3 pound goal. Reach it by the time a week and a half has gone by, then set another 3 pound goal. Reach it in about the same amount of time. Set a 4 pound goal and reach that in another week and a half. By the time February is over that is 10 pounds. If we keep doing that, we can have the 50 or so pounds off by July.
I'm following Atkins, and I know fat comes off fast on this diet. What plan others are following is up to you, but I also plan to exercise aerobicly at least every day or two. Sometimes every day, sometimes twice a day. Aerobics burns fat. Weight lifting builds muscle which is good, but it isn't easy to lose actual weight while lifting. You tend to build heavier muscle (which looks pretty good, but doesn't help in the weight loss and what I'm after now is weight loss). So I probably won't be lifting for awhile.
Anyone want to join me?