January Goals

My goals for January are:

25 hours of cardio
7 hours of weight lifting

I plan on doing Jillians Shred video daily. I want to incorporate other videos such as my biggest loser workout series videos in on a rotating basis but the Shred video will be my do it daily for the month of January no matter what and no excuses.

I would love to get 209 workouts in 2009 but we'll see how life happens with that one.

My diet goals are:

To plan a menu that we stick with each week. There might be substitutions made in case an ingredient goes bad or something like that but overall the menu that we set on Saturday will be the menu we stick with for the week.

Ok so I have fitness goals set, and diet goals set what about weight goals?

I am not going to set any weight goals because I know my body and I know that I don't lose normally and I do not want to get frustated this early in the game. I know that weight will come off and I will be weighing in weekly but I will not get frustrated when the numbers do not move.

A little about me to start

Weight has always been an issue in my life. In High School I fought to lose the pounds and was successful on slim fast and strict diet. It all went kaput in college when I gained the Freshman 50. I wised up real fast and got back on the bandwagon again and started losing.

During a bad relationship I was told that I was fat even though I was at the smallest size I had ever been (a size 6) and when the relationship ended I gained weight again.

When I met my husband I was working on losing weight, actually not really I was working on changing my lifestyle. I tried Jenny Craig, Weightwatchers, Slim Fast again, and when I was home sick one day I heard someone on the news talking about Body for Life. I really bought into what was being said and went out that day to buy the book. When my husband got home I showed him and after he read it he said let's do it. Life changed at that point and the weight came off.

When I got married I was happy at the size I was although I was still losing. Body for life does not focus on just diet but rather incorporates fitness and diet and shows how the combination of the two brings about a healthier life style. I was so beyond happy with how I was eating, working out, and feeling that I vowed to stick with the program.

Then the year came that I got pregnant. I followed the general principles of the program while I was pregnant and vowed to get back into it 100% as soon as the baby was here. Yeah that didn't exactly happen. I was no longer able to go to the gym for an hour after work as I wanted to get home to spend time with the family.

This year we bought a home gym and although I have been using it I have not been focusing on using it like it was intended to be.

2009 is my year and I am going to make some serious changes in life.

Each month I am going to challenge myself fitness wise to a certain number of hours per month of cardio and weights. I am going to do cardio everyday because I know it's what works, I know it's what helps, and I know it's what is going to get my body back to where I am happy with it and don't mind looking in the mirror or trying on clothes again.

Diet wise I am back on the body for life bandwagon. 6 small meals a day sound like HEAVEN right now. My food scaled has been ordered and I am ready to focus on this again. My husband is back on the wagon as well. We are both going to make 2009 our year.

I am not going to set a weight goal because I don't lose weight fast. It is a very long tedious process to see the numbers on the scale start to move down. I usually see inches fall off much sooner and I am so ready for that!

We're not starting in 2009 though, we're starting today as today is the first day of the rest of our lives.