Monday, December 21, 2009

boiling point

ok, so this is it. i'm 27. 28 is my favorite number... i'll be 28 in july. i've been looking forward to this birthday for 2 decades, and i'll be damned if i'm gonna spend it self-conscious and embarrased about my saggy stomach and dimply thighs.

i'm going to do something that never occurred to me before. you know the phrase "a watched pot never boils". well, maybe it doesn't. i'm focusing all my energies and efforts on losing weight. my goal is to lose weight. so then when i work and work and work and don't lose weight, i stop working. that's what happens time and time again. so, i'm going to stop "watching my pot". my goal is no longer to lose weight. my goal is to be a finisher in the honolulu marathon in dec. 2010.

my mini-goals are a 5k in the spring, a 10k in summer, a 1/2 marathon in fall, and then the marathon in dec.

i feel good about this. it makes sense to me. it's a long term motivator. i can do this.