More importantly (and more permanently) I want to learn to control how I eat instead of feeling like how I eat controls me. I'm a junk food nut. A chronic sweet tooth. I eat as a response to stress, to boredom, and to celebrate. At times I eat just because it's what I've learned to do.
Over the past three years I've done a lot of reading on weight loss, exercise, and nutrition. I've had successful runs at some attempts to eat smarter, but I always compensate for my sacrifice by over-indulging in some other area.
Examples:
- I've stuck to a good meal plan for a spurt and done pretty good with exercise for a spurt, but I've never successfully spurted them together. And I don't want to spurt, anyway, I want to sustain. That's kind of the point.
- I cut out lots of sweets but would drink lots of diet soda to satiate my sweet tooth, which really doesn't do any good, no matter what the calorie count says on the can/bottle.
So, the idea behind the "100 Day Challenge" is this: combine everything I Know that I Need to do to lose those 20-30 lbs and feel better as a rule instead of as an exception.
For the 100 day period of January 7 to April 16 I will try to achieve at least a 90% success rate in these specific areas of challenge:
- Getting enough sleep (7-8) hours per night
- Taking my vitamins
- Doing Yoga/Strength exercises every day
- Doing 30 minutes of Cardio at least 4 times a week
- Drinking at least 60 oz of water a day
- Cutting all coffee and pop (or soda or coke for those of you non-Ohioans)
- Sticking to my Meal Plan
If it I am successful, well, then it will be time to decide what to do next. For now, I'm focusing on the short term. The blog will be for progress reports, funny anecdotes, success and failure stories, and various other colorful fun I'm making a list to include.
Also, because I'm an accountant, I will be counting my success with a fancy spreadsheet, and there may be charts and graphs. ;-)
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