Body Transformation Challenge

I just signed up for the Body Transformation Challenge in Fairfield, Iowa.  Fairfield is where I grew up and where all my siblings and folks still live.  I am here indefinitely, staying days with my sister who has Stage 4 cancer.  I talked about that a bit in the last post.

I think part of why I am so aware of my physical well being is because of my sister's health.  Also, because my best friend dating back to Junior High School, died of cancer a couple years ago.  It was when I flew to Houston to see her, when she was still doing well and still working, that I was introduced to the idea that what we eat really does make a difference to our health, particularly in regard to chronic diseases and cancer.  My friend had told me not to consume any dairy products that weren't organic, and to ensure my daughter did the same.  Her oncologist had told her that when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer 20 years earlier.  But now it was back - metastasized.  Breast cancer ran in my mother's side of the family.

I started making changes then.  I'd always been a runner, but now I started thinking and reading more about nutrition.

So, I've been contemplating going for a 50 miler and losing 20-30 pounds.

When a lady handed me a piece of paper containing information about the Jefferson County Park and Recreation Body Transformation Challenge, I felt it was fortuitous.  Why shy away from a public contest that would add the support (and pressure) of the group/the public to help me lose that weight, or some of it. I've been stuck at where I am for a couple of years now.

So if what you are doing isn't working, try something else.

So I signed up.

Weigh in is between Sept 2-6, with photographs.  Ugh.  :)  The contest is up right before Thanksgiving.  That is good timing too, don't you think?

So I am going for it.

No Loose-y Goose-y Goals

OK.  I can see I was too loosey goosey with my plans in the last post.  And no, that isn't cutting it.

Here's the deal:

Tonight: I am going to boil eggs for breakfast the rest of the week.

Tonight: I am going to find the Insanity recipe/eating guide that my daughter bought and study it.  Speaking of Insanity, I did the level one Insanity work out with my daughter last Friday and my calves hurt more than since I was in Airborne School in the Army as a 22 year old. I think maybe I even hurt worse than after my 50K. I guess that would be good advertising for Insanity, huh?

Tonight: I will have a light salad for dinner.

Tonight: I am going to buy fresh veggies and roast them for lunches and dinners and research recipes for green smoothies/juices.

Yesterday I started the 100 pushups program and printed it out and put it on my board at work.  I am checking each set off, and each day, so I'll stick with that.

Tomorrow: I will check back in with you on my progress.  I need to keep myself on this program.

I signed up to do a one mile run in DC on the 15th of February; the Cupid's Undie Run which raises money for the Children's Tumor Foundation. I committed to running in a nude body suit wearing not much else but Depends, wings, and carrying a bow and arrow.  I'll wear running shoes, of course. But with all the weight I put on over Christmas, I am not feeling good about my weight, have rolls and blubber when I lean forward, and a general bloated belly when I lean back.  My butt and thighs, and arms feel bigger and almost none of my clothes fit.  Yuck.  I hate this feeling.  I haven't been this big and out of shape in about two years.

And just think, I ran a 50K in November.  And I want to stretch out my distance to a 70.3 in June.