I lost just under 50 pounds in 2016, and my goal for 2017 is to get to a healthy weight. It may not be my “perfect ideal weight”, but I just want to be healthy. For me it’s not about looking a certain way or gaining someone’s appreciation… I grew out of how people feel a long time ago.
I feel so much better than where I was when I started, but I want to finish what I started once and for all!
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Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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Today was the last weight set in my bracket, which means that I’m adding weight to both my chest lifts as well as my arm and shoulder curls.
There was a time when this was unimaginable because I had injured myself. Lesson learned it is so much better to go slow than rush just to meet some superficial goal!
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Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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Weight lifting is part of my daily routine- I feel so lazy on days when I don’t get to work out, even if it’s because my body is screaming for a break!
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I think we all need to find ways to motivate ourselves- to help keep us going. For me, I like to be able to “see” accomplishment, be it in some chart or in a representation of a goal- that’s just a part of me I have come to accept.
With my health and weight loss I used to set myself up for failure all the time. I would set what was usually an unrealistic goal and then when I got off track, I would set yet another unrealistic goal just to get back on the unrealistic track I had set for myself. I learned from that and quit doing that last year.
I also used to strand a bead it I did all the different things I somehow said I “should” do in a day… but that was also setting myself up for failure because it honestly was an unrealistic list to keep up with every single day.
As my journey progresses in 2017, I decided to keep up with that motivation, but I greatly simplified it. I just ask myself if I made my target for the day. That’s it. If a day comes where I miss my target, it will not be the end of the world- because in the end this is a journey to get healthy. And trust me, no journey worth taking is going to be downhill every day!
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While I love having these gloves for lifting weights, more so I love the foam pads I use for when I kneel down to do push-ups, or even for just standing to lift my weights. I never thought they would make that big of a difference, but I can sure tell the difference when I’m standing on the cold cement versus on these foam pads. Especially when doing push-ups!
Theme: Weight For Me
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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