A New Goal with a New Plan

As most of you probably know, I'm on a journey of loosing weight.  Last year, I lost a total of 25 kilos - huge right???  However, this year has been quite challenging on quite a few levels and have seen me put on a few kilos... about 7 to be truthful.  Knowing this is so hard.  I reached my lowest weight at the beginning of the year, which meant in total I had lost about 27 kilos.  When I joined up with Weight Watchers in February last year, I was completely focused on my ultimate goal of losing 45 kilos and doing it in one year.  I admit it now, it was a tad ambitious, but I completely think that I could have done it, if I had stuck closer to the programme and incorporated exercise from the beginning of my journey.  However, that is now in the past and I am now here, not happy with how I have put on weight this year and wanting to get back on track and ultimately, get to my big goal weight. I was sitting an my desk this morning, watching videos of those who have succeeded in their weight loss journey with WW and crying because I've strayed so off track.  I've been complaining about it and been prideful about my journey as well.  I need to get off  my high horse, where I think I can do this journey by myself and don't need any help and admit that I do need help.  I need support and need encouragement.  I need reminding to keep to my plan and I need help.  So before I go onto explain my new plan and lay everything on the table, I need you, yes YOU to help me.  If you see me on a regular habit, would you be able to talk to me about how I'm going with my plan and encourage me if I'm feeling low, celebrate with me when it's been a good day and push me back on track if I'm straying.  If you don't see me regularly but are friends with me on Facebook, if you think of it, can you post something on my wall of encouragement, or private message me to see how I'm going?  Or if you're someone who has stumbled across this blog, if you feel like it, leave a comment.  I am not going to stay overweight forever and I'm going to hit this goal.  The time is now and I need to do this right now if I'm going to have a happy and healthy future.  I want to feel amazing and good again.  Please help me.  I beg you.

So this plan.  Ever since I've joined Weight Watchers, and before as well, I've known about the Healthy Life Awards and it's always been a dream of mine to enter and become one of the finalists, and be flown over to Aussie to take part in the finale week.  I still really want this to happen so this is my goal.  Entries this year closed on the 21st of August so I'm going to aim to be at goal weight on the 3rd of June 2013.  This gives me a chance to maintain and become a life member of Weight Watchers.  BUT this is just my ultimate goal.  My first goal is to get to 85 kilos on the 19th of November.  This gives me six weeks to kickstart this journey.  I'm not going to say and statements such as 'if I don't...' because thinking negatively about this situation doesn't work.  At the end of this post I will put a list of all of my goals and the dates that I want to achieve them by.  I am going to stick to this.  One of the main things that I am going to stick to throughout this is taking one day at a time, and also planning my meals for each day the night before. I am also going to put every meal into my online tracker after I've eaten it.  Exercise each day is a must.  Please hold me to this!  This journey is going to be successful and it's going to be long and hard and slow BUT it is going to be so worth it.  I'm going to feel fabulous and amazing and healthy! It is all going to be worth it.  This is going to be worth it.  It WILL pay off.

If you didn't know, I'm a Christian and I believe that everything that I do here on earth should be done for the glory of God.  God gave me this body to look after while I'm here on earth so today on day one of this journey I am going to commit this all to him.

Lord,

Thank you for this life that you have given me.  For everything that I have.  For my friends and family and the weight that I have already lost.  Thank you that I have the ability and the resources here available to help me lose weight with.  Please continue to be with me throughout this journey and strengthen me to get through the low and tough patches.  Every goal I have set before have flopped and I have never achieved them before.  Please let these goals be the ones that I keep.  Let them be the ones I reach and stick to.  Please Lord, support me and guide me through this journey.  I am ready to lose this weight forever and create a new and healthy lifestyle for me.  Be with me Lord and help me please.  I commit these plans that I have into your hands so that your will may be done throughout this journey.

In your name I pray,

Amen.

Right.  So here are my goals and dates below.

19th November - 85 kilos

31st December - 80 kilos

4th February - 75 kilos

8th April - 70 kilos

3rd June - 65 kilos

Enter HLA - August

Please help me and encourage me through this journey.

Lots of love

Sophie

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