40

I wanted to follow Susan's lead and post my personal goals that I will be trying to work on till the end of the year. Here they are:

- Work out 4 times per week (minimum)

- Lose 20 lbs (that is less than 2 lbs per week - a good goal I think)

- Be able to run 2 miles 1X per week (minimum) without feeling like I am going to die, by the end of the year (hopefully before).

In addition to this, I am going to try to do some smaller initiative in a 40 day rotation. I am turning 40 in a little more than 2 years and I would really like to have some good habits by the time I reach 40. I have about 40 lbs to lose all together and there are other, coincidentally, "40s" that John and are working on together that are in our other areas we are working on - finances, the kids etc. So - 40 seems to be a number that works for goals for me. SO - this round, I am going to focus on going 40 days without any kind of candy. I know for some, this seems like no big deal - but for me it is huge - especially with Halloween coming up. I am a big candy consumer - especially for the last few weeks - so I think this makes sense for my first 40 goal. Wish me luck. Others that I know I need to tackle are water consumption and Diet Coke (again) - but that will come.



I am excited about starting the Nike + program as well. I looked into it today (thanks for the info Susan and Kathy) and it looks like fun. I think the coolest thing will be to track the miles run. Who knows, maybe I will have a 40 goal realted to that some day. To that end, once I get started, I think a logical thing would be to set a goal to do a 5K sometime in the future- so I will be contacting you guys when I get into that to see if you want to join me for a race. Kathy and Susan - it woudl be fun for you guys to meet sometime - so maybe we could plan a once a month weekend morning run somewhere in the middle between Highlands Ranch and Fort Collins and do a fun run together. I feel so very cool! I really hope that I can pull off thsi running thing. Susan- you are my inspiration - especially given all your trials with your shins - and you didn't give up!



Finally - I am going to try this week to take pictures of my food when I eat it and use that as my food journal. Siomeone said it works great and I can tell you that having to take a picture of my breakfast mornning definately made me think about what was on my plate. Initially, there wasn't alot of color and no fruit or veggies - so I added some grapes at least. I think it will help to know that I am posting the pictures and that I don't want to be embarrased by it. So - we shall see. I have to say that even with my efforst, my breakfast picture doesn't look all that appetizing. It was scrambled egg, coffee and grapes. I will post it below just to give you an idea. It has inspred me to try to make my plates more colorful and fun - we eat with our eyes first ya know!

Wish me luck on this quest!