Running in the park and an epiphany

I guess I am destined to learn how to run - all these people keep making me do it. LOL! Again, running in the park this morning with some push-ups, sit-ups, squats, lunges and a few other assorted moves thrown in for an hour early this morning. I am so glad I just have a "regular" workout tomorrow - I may regret saying that too!

On a more serious note….today while speaking with Kwentin, my counselor, we talked about the importance of setting realistic goals – what a concept. You mean I can’t loose 10 pounds a week for the next nine weeks and be done with it? S%&$T! After learning - not really learning…more like finally realizing - about calories in vs. calories out while I was at the Biggest Loser Resort, I know REALLY KNOW it is only possible to loose about two pounds a week. Unless you are in an unrealistic situation – like on the Biggest Looser television program or at the Biggest Loser Resort. I am FINALLY getting this concept and how I have been on this roller coaster ride of losing and gaining and losing and gaining for the last twenty years – and especially during the last eight months of my Fit by Fifty blogging experience which you have all seen. I had a huge epiphany today – yes I’m a little slow. It will take slow steady progress to reach my goal – which I am now extending until June 10, 2011 by the way. I will still be 50 years old then – so hey it is still “fit by fifty,” right? Anyway, there is no magic pill, exercise, words, emotional release, book, diet, experience or anything that can get one to their desired weight of choice – there is just the journey. The slow and steady journey – that is! I feel like I have experienced a lot in the last 245 days – can you believe it has been that long? I have learned a lot too. I know the next 280 days will bring the same – more personal, spiritual, and emotional growth. So, for the next nine months watch me birth a new baby – ME! This is very symbolic if you know anything at all about my struggles with not having children of my own. So, I think it is quite fitting that the new ME will take nine months to be formed – just like a new baby. It’s going to be fun – and it’s going to be a celebration when it happens!