Day 1 of 84 ... It's time to get serious.

I keep a calendar in my home gym and every day I do a workout I put a diagonal line through the date.  If I eat healthy and follow my plan it gets another diagonal line and if I practice the "universal law of reciprocation" otherwise known as inspiring and lifting others up, I get a straight line through the date, all to make a "star".  There haven't been many stars this month.  It's been a very stressful several weeks and before that it was wedding stuff and OMG it just never stopped.

Things are starting to calm down and get straightened out and the gardening is almost done for the season.  The big renovation is next weekend (pray for dry weather for me, will ya?).  I really need to get this done. 

So I decided last night that it was time to get serious.  I don't want to go into 2011 in the same shape I'm in.  So I decided to weigh myself, take my measurements and have my pics taken.

So here I am in all my glory ....

Can you tell where my issue is?

My weight was 217
Bust - 46
Waist - 41
Tummy - 47
Hips - 43

These are almost EXACTLY the same measurements as I took in April.  I know I went up a bit because my tummy (largest part of my trunk) was 49 at one point a couple of months ago and I've come back down.  It's amazing how quickly it goes up but it comes back down almost as fast once I put my mind to it.

So ... having done all that and set my goals, the 12 weeks ends Dec 18 2010.
My goals for the next 12 weeks are:

• Lose 10 pounds
• Wear a size 12 (I'm going to say from Reitman's since that's where I get all my clothes right now and the size is consistent)
• Lose 3" off tummy
• reduce caffeine intake to espresso in the morning
• be able to walk up 60 flights of stairs at home.  I'm starting with 5 flights today and will increase 1 flight per day.  Then I'll work on the amount of time it takes me to do that. 

So there you have it.  I am tired of not making the kind of progress I know I can make.  I'm actually kinda glad I've stabilized for a while.  I'm more determined now to achieve the above goals.  My nutrition is my biggest obstacle.  And keeping my stress down but that should get resolved this coming week.

Thanks for all your support.  I know I haven't been very consistent lately.  To make matters worse (or perhaps better), I finally joined the world of Facebook.  God help me.

Hope you're having an awesome day ... I'm off to do some weeding in the bank and cleaning up before the cold weather really hits.

TTFN!