8W2ABB – Week One – Do Over!! Let’s Do This Thang!!

Hey All!!

Dontcha love second chances?!?  And thirds?  My favorites are the sixty sevenths!  No matter how many do-overs you get, it is NEVER too late, so hop on this wagon and let’s ride!  Hyahh!!

All right, 2009 is almost toast!  At the beginning of my new Journey, I expressed the need to finish what I started.  Unfortunately for me, I have adult ADD, so I have started a lot of stuff!!  Remember Seven Heavens?  50 Million Pound Challenge? Those T – shirts? And now, 8 Weeks to a Permanent Charley Horse coupled with another 16 weeks before my first 26.2 mile marathon!

So, ladies and gents, we are gonna wrap all this up in a nice bow and start fresh for 2010!!   8 weeks is approximately the end of the year, give or take a few days.  Sooo…Ms. Tracy is going gonzo, going out with a bang, and going to finish all that was started in 2009 and look 2010 in the eye fresh and ready to kick ass and take names!!

As we have stated before on Sweet Potato – you gotta have a plan.  Make a goal and map out how you are going to reach that goal.  Those of you who are following this challenge and/or participating in your own way, I suggest making a chart or something that you can pin up and look at everyday.  Make a checklist. Go online and /or make a chart or graph of your goals and progress.

JUST WRITE IT DOWN!!!  Cuz, if you don’t, you will find yourself “forgetting” or skipping or just plain dropping the whole thing – like I did for the month of October.  No tracking my food, no logging my weekly running miles, no charting my weight losses, I even started skipping Weight Watcher meetings.   And here I am – 177!!  That is 13 pounds up!  At my lowest , I hit 163 – 10 pounds from my goal weight! Remember that? Let me remind you…that was when I looked like this….

Yep, for about 15 minutes in August, I wore a single digit (8) size!  And, dangit, I am getting back into those!!  Right now, I still can wear my size 10 jeans, but I am more on the 12 side.  Still not bad, I am a long way from this…..

November 08

But…..I wanna finish, I wanna see what 153 looks like and I WANNA GET BACK INTO THOSE SIZE 8 JEANS!!!!

Yeah, Yeah I know, size doesn’t matter, inner beauty, strong black women, white women,  hair, distorted body image, sexism, God, fighting against body type,  bla bla bla – You be You, Let Me be Me – And Me wants to be a size 8!!

Anyhoo, back to goals – I am listing mine and how I plan to get there by December 31st – Just in time for New Years!

8 WEEK CHALLENGE

Goal – To be 16-20 pounds down by December 31st, 2009.  To reach my 100th pound mark – and my final Seventh Heaven goal (157). To get to almost normal on my BMI chart on the 50 Million Pound Challenge site – and to come within 3-4 pounds of finishing that challenge (153).

I would also like to print and hand out the T-shirts from the 50 Challenge and the other contest we had – the winner was Linda L. !   – before the year is up.

Steps to take to achieve or come close to the goal:

EXERCISE

Running – At least 7 mi per day (a little over a 10K) with one day rest.  Alternate days add a 4-5 mile evening run/walk (easy).

Strength Training – Three days a week , upper, lower and core training with free weights and machines ( one hour per day). One day rest in between and one full day rest to recoup.

EATING PLAN

Weight Watchers points plan – follow points for weight group and add extra points as needed for exercise.  FOLLOW TO THE LETTER.  Start weighing and measuring again and if I bite it – WRITE IT!!

I am going to get a chart to check off my days for strength training , runs and weight gains/losses.  The exercise portion looks a little tough, but I’m just taking what I have already achieved to another level  – Onward , Upward, and Forewards!!

And, ladies and gents, this is my personal routine – yours might be entirely different.  But plan something do-able for yourself, push a little and see what the end will bring – got that from church!!

Shout out to Mr. Casper, who visited my hometown, was literally blocks away from where I live, but didn’t bother to say or email one peep!  See how you are!!  I would’ve bought lunch!!  LOL!

Hello to Facebook friends and family – I miss you too, but I’m on a mission!  Kiss Kiss to Mr. W, my partner in crime, and to Henry, my running buddy who got us kicked out of Starbucks the other day – that is another post!

As always – YOU CAN DO IT!!   Let’s tie up these loose ends and start off 2010 fit, healthy, wide eyed and ready to take on the world!

……..coffee buzz over…….I gotta book a massage, my back is killing me….