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Benvenuto! (Welcome!)

This month marks just over 1-year since my journey with weightloss, health, and fitness has started. I've decided to begin documenting the changes that I continue to experience as I lose weight, become more active, and try new things. During the past year I've gained a love and obsession for running, turbo kickoboxing, and yoga. I've run 1 5K, 1 12K, 9 Half Marathons, and 1 21-Miler in 4 states since October 2009... and I'm nowhere near finished!

Changing your life, though, can really sometimes be a very lonely experience. And this is where this journaling thing comes in: a public connection to what would otherwise be a private experience.

My plan is this: be honest. I'm going to be documenting the food I eat, the exercises I do, and all the other things that happen during this journey to help me succeed... and talk about how I overcome the failures that will inevitably occur as part of it.

I'm not giving myself an exact timeframe, just the ultimate goal of being where I want to be in the end.

So here I go... across the start line of the longest marathon of my life. Scared, but excited as hell! :)

Written Day 1: 07.01.10

Modified 1.3.11 to add new running info!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Thoughts of the Day ♥

I had a really interesting conversation with a very good friend of mine that I thought I'd share. Basically it was this: she thinks that I should get out and date. To which I responded that I wasn't ready to date because I wasn't finished remaking myself. And I really stand by that statement. Am I proud of how far I've come? - absolutely. Am I confident and optimistic? - you betcha. But the kind of guy that I want or would be interested in, isn't someone who'd necessarily look at me twice yet. I need to be at that point where I'm really walking tall (well, as tall as any 5'4" person can haha) and feeling that sense of achievement. A lot of my girls are serial daters. Some are psychotic about hanging onto the guy they're seeing for fear of being alone. Me? I spent over 6 years concentrating on someone else's wants and needs before my own and ultimately it made me unhappy. This "me time" is a long time coming. Am I opposed to dating? No, not really. But... there's no rush.

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