The time has come to set my goals for Round 2 of the 12WBT.
We're fully into pre-season and we've been asked to put our goals and commitments down, and I've thought about it, I've written them down and I've put put them away to check back on at week 4.
Here's a run down of what I will achieve before the 25th of August this year, when round two ends:
- I've got about 5kg to drop before I'm at goal. I'm 174cm tall, so I don't want to be a size 6, I'd look unheathy and waifish. I'm already in a healthy weight range, but I'd like to be smack bang in the middle of the range before I start really concentrating on my toning. That WILL be gone by week 4.
- After week 4, I'll be moving to Lean & Strong to tone myself up and get strong. I'm already doing some weights on most of my gym visits, but I have a lot of toning to do, especially around my middle.
- I'm going to run the half marathon in the Melbourne Marathon Festival. By the end of round 2, I'll be running 3 times a week and able to run at least 18km.
- I'm committing to clean eating. Watching my portions, eating slightly less fruit, replacing them with more vegetables, and only wholemeal breads and pastas, brown rice when I do have carbs.
Plenty more protein, and of course that pesky, recurring promise to myself - little to no chocolate!
I'm not going to do the 12 weeks dry like some choose to do, because the amount of alcohol I do drink is fairly insignificant anyway.
- Mindset wise, I have an issue with letting myself be supported when I'm weak or need help. I seem to prefer to have a tantrum or a couple of really low days instead of letting people support me or help me out.
For this round, I'm going to let myself be a little more vulnerable - and that's going to be a huge struggle for me!
Of course I'm going to continue to show support for my 12WBT family and their struggles and journeys, but I feel like I probably need to be a little more open with them about mine - that WILL happen this round.
Finally, and probably the hardest for me...
- I'm going to let go of putting ALL of my self worth into the number on the scales.
I've done the hard yards and I've worked my butt off last round to move the weight, and I did it.
I'm 18kg lighter than when I started and I know a lot more now than I did then. I know that it doesn't happen overnight, I know that sometimes you body doesn't do what you want it to when you want it to, I know that some weeks you'll see no loss then the week after it will fall off, I know about plateu's.
I know ALL of this and still sometimes if I don't see the number I want to see, it feels like the end of the world to me, even though I'm sitting here wearing a size 8 jumper as I write this, that wouldn't have fit past my shoulders when I started this in October last year.
The thing with moving to Lean & Strong is that there really is little to no weight loss involved - it's all about muscles and toning and strength, so I'm going to have to get used to not seeing the big changes.
This round is about healthy and strong, not skinny.
SO there it is, all on the line.
Something to keep me accountable and something to come back to when I lose sight of why I'm doing all of this (and beleive me, that happens every few weeks)!
Thanks for stopping by - would love to hear YOUR current goals!
xxx
SJ
