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<\/a><\/p>\nStep one, be able to produce this level of excitement for ANYTHING.<\/em><\/p>\n My first order of business is to get my energy and enthusiasm back.\u00a0<\/strong> This starts immediately.\u00a0 My goal is to get to the point where I’m waking up before my alarm or at the very least up and at ’em the minute it goes off most mornings.\u00a0 Monday night I fell asleep for over 10 hours, and I still snoozed for 40 mins before I dragged myself out of bed.\u00a0 I just feel kind of beat up.\u00a0 My goal in March is to sleep until I can’t sleep no mo’.\u00a0 I miss having energy.<\/p>\n Missing THESE days where my clothes fit.<\/em><\/p>\n After finishing birthdaymas celebrations, March 15th, I start #projectraceweight.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, it’s a Tuesday, Zliten’s birthday is on that Monday.\u00a0 No judgies.<\/p>\n This is the ultimate goal of these next 4 months and the reason I decided to take the spring completely off.\u00a0 I’m not trying to eliminate food groups or demonize junk food or eliminate gluten or white colored food or whatever from my diet.\u00a0 But I’m going to lose some fucking weight.\u00a0 There is no “try my best if I can” here, it’s time to DO IT.\u00a0 The specific goal is to make the number on the scale go down as quickly as possible\/reasonable while not sabotaging my health (or fall season).<\/p>\n I know how to do this.\u00a0 I lost 5 lbs in July without losing my mind.\u00a0 Sadly, I put that and more back on with the failed fueling experiment, but it is proof that I know how to do this.<\/p>\n The plan is:<\/p>\n The mindset:<\/p>\n When I was first on my way down weight-wise, I definitely had some negative type reinforcement with myself and mental issues to work through.\u00a0 Not to say that I don’t have separate shit to work through (hello, disappointment in my fall 2015 winter 2016 season), but I understand the process a little better and hopefully I can be a little more gentle on my psyche.\u00a0 Though the action still is the same, the message is different.<\/p>\n 2007 me: You don’t deserve that piece of cake because you’re a worthless fat piece of shit.\u00a0 Eat celery forever and cry, fucker.<\/p>\n 2016 me: You don’t deserve that piece of cake because you’re choosing to invest your time and effort into #projectspring.\u00a0 You deserve better than to sabotage your hard work.\u00a0 Cake will still exist in 4 months.<\/p>\n And this is the truth.\u00a0 If it’s hard – that’s fine.\u00a0 Because this is my project. I am training to not fall face down on a bag of chips or a pie or a bottle of vodka.\u00a0 This is the hard I am choosing to tackle right now and I can deal with it.<\/p>\n I suppose if I had to put a number on it, I’d like to weigh no more than 160-something (169.9 is acceptable) come July 1st.\u00a0 My wildest dreams would be seeing 150 lbs.\u00a0 Either way, I’ll feel so much better than I do now not carrying around a bunch of extra sacks of flour on my body.<\/p>\n This is a before shot of our workout room.\u00a0 Just enough space had been cleared to make the treadmill usable.<\/em><\/p>\n Let’s call this a progress picture from the same angle – after 2 hours of work, it’s not yet the pain cave we want it to be, but it is an organized and usable room!\u00a0 Wheee!<\/em><\/p>\n I want to make some progress on house projects.\u00a0<\/strong> This involves two categories:<\/p>\n Cleaning and organizing (need only time)<\/p>\n Bigger projects (need time and money):<\/p>\n I talked about it in depth here<\/a> but this spring is when I become a biker chick.\u00a0 <\/strong>I want to become less of a scaredy biker and bike with groups more.\u00a0I really want to start using my cruiser bike (and feet) to commute and transport myself whenever possible.\u00a0 I rarely venture more than a few miles from where I live and it’s ridiculous to drive everywhere.<\/p>\n I want to get a for real triathlon bike, with the right tri bike geometry.\u00a0 I need to do all my research so I spend money on what matters and not just because it’s 2 grams lighter and 3 grand more.<\/p>\n I’d really like to do something with this site.<\/strong>\u00a0 After I decompress enough to get a little bored in the evenings, I want to make this site into something a little less… eclectic.\u00a0 Something more intentional than a hodgepodge of my attempt at a artsy web design job application in 2004 and a very haphazard theme and awkward set up with a blog jammed into the middle of it.\u00a0 It still works as a place to vomit my thoughts every once in a while, but I’d like to actually give this place a makeover.\u00a0 Y’know, make her fit into 2016… either under my own power or spend a little $$$ to get someone to do it for me if I give up.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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