Goals? Yes Please!

Oh my goodness!  This summer is just flying by and it's been hard to carve out time to write a post :)   I am trying to spend every nice day that I have off, at the beach, and my work days are for sitting out on The Sanctuary after dinner and just enjoying the evening.  I haven't really even checked my blogs to read so I need to catching up and see what everyone has been up to.  I feel so lonely :)

Let me begin with some beach pictures from Monday :)

My Great Nephew, Oliver!!

My Great Nephew, Ryland

My Nieces, Ariel, and Alyssa

and their Mom, my SIL Julie!!

The "toes in the sand" picture,

just because I'm a smarty pants,

now that I have a smart phone :) 

I promised myself that today, since we took the day off, I would update my blog.  I decided to add some pages, including a weight journey page.  I looked back and wrote down all my gains and losses since in started my blog in January.  My real honest attempt at losing weight started in October so I decided to begin with that and go from there.  What a mess of losses and gains.  After looking at all of the ups and downs, I made a promise to myself that that nonsense is going to stop.  See it all in print made me realize how much time I've wasted by eating junk, and not eating junk.  I think my main focus when beginning this blog was to find myself emotionally.  Now I need to stop messing around and find myself physically!  It is a shame how much time and energy I've wasted yo-yoing up and down.  That is going to stop!  I am at peace with my kids getting older, and now I need to be at peace with my weight.  The only person that can help me with that is me.   I also noticed that I have been really lackadaisical about weighing in.  That is going to stop as well.  Awhile back I was weighing in on Sundays and I really liked that.  So from now on, weigh in's on Sundays.....YUP!   Posting a picture of my scale......YES!  Here and there accountability  gym time pictures.....GET READY!

December is coming fast and Iv'e set a goal for December......

 I, Lori, declare that I will be 180 pounds by December 20, 2015.  :)

I've reset my ticker on myfitnesspal I can see it in print and be properly updated!

That is 22 weeks away.
I am 216 today
That is 36 pounds.
That is about 1.5 pounds per week.
Doable?  YES!
Will I do it?  YES!

 I never usually set goals with my weight.  I really don't know why.  Thinking about it tho, I think setting a goal is a wonderful way to get where you want to be!!

xoxo

"Setting goals is the first step

in turning the invisible, into the visible."

~Tony Robbins