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No resolutions this year!

I am done with resolutions, with diets, with fads, with bad habits and with quick fixes.

Instead, I will continue to learn how to take better care of me through diet, fitness, focus, and spiritual health. I will apply what I have learned (OK, what I already knew but was not applying) over the past 8 months with SP and other sources. I will set SMART goals rather than resolutions.

Goals for 2013:
1) Continue to take off extra weight with a target of 170 lbs ...
I am done with resolutions, with diets, with fads, with bad habits and with quick fixes.

Instead, I will continue to learn how to take better care of me through diet, fitness, focus, and spiritual health. I will apply what I have learned (OK, what I already knew but was not applying) over the past 8 months with SP and other sources. I will set SMART goals rather than resolutions.

Goals for 2013:
1) Continue to take off extra weight with a target of 170 lbs (which is in the "healthy" BMI range and put me at about 15% body fat). (from a pre-SP weight of 201 and 1 Jan weight of 181. 20 lbs down, 11 more to go.)

2) Run 1000 miles over the year. I have been close before, but this is my year! I just need to average 83 miles a month or 20 miles per week. Easy-peasy!

3) Run in at least 4 races over the year. The first should be the Jones' 10 miler in Amherst, MA on 24 Feb.

4) Finish my dissertation by May and move to West Point, NY in June.

5) Successfully transition from losing weight to maintenance.
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Member Since: 4/26/2012

SparkPoints: 18,833

Fitness Minutes: 21,473

My Goals:
Long Term:
BMI less than 25:
Weight less than 175:
2 mi run in less than 14 min:
5k run in less than 22:30 min:

Weekly:
Burn 4000 calories per week.
Run 15-20 mi per week
Swim 2-4 mi per week

My Program:
My 3 point program:

Diet: Tracking food on SP and staying within the recommended limits (most days!)

Exercise: Running 15-20 mi per week, swimming 2-4 mi per week, plus stretching, walking, biking, water skiing, snowboarding and other outdoor pursuits.

Mental: Staying positive, identifying areas for improvement, teaching my kids to have a healthy lifestyle!

Personal Information:
My family and I are living in Amherst, MA. We have 4 children (ages 5 mos to 6 yrs).

Other Information:
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get in. You just run." - John Bingham

"What if you worked towards self-acceptance instead of trying to hate yourself into change? Acceptance and peace with what is is always going to feel better than hate." - Christie Inge

Exercise is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical
- Adapted from Yogi Berra quote

Losing weight is hard, being fat is hard. Choose your hard.

"A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." -- Stephan Dolley Jr.

"There are two secrets to success:
1. Never tell everything you know.

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Member Comments:
BOILHAM
5/17/2013 12:17:37 PM

Thanks for the nice comments on my blog today. Glad you enjoyed the Napoleon Hill quote. His book "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons", is the best motivational book I've ever read.



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PIXIE-LICIOUS
5/15/2013 8:20:13 PM

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination.
The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!"
- Richard M. Devos
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Just dropping by to thank you for commenting on my blog, "The NSV is Blowing in the Wind." I appreciate the support!



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JENSTRESS
5/15/2013 1:13:28 PM

Thanks for the comments on my blog. The not easy but simple thing is something I keep thinking, because too many people want just easy.



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BOILHAM
5/14/2013 11:08:34 AM

Liked your thoughtful comment on brooklynborns 'winning' blog. It is hard for children to balance between striving for excellence and maintaining sense of self worth after defeat.
Though he;s not a child, I'm concerned for my nephew - that a defeat will shatter him. Most likely he will bounce right back. I suppose concern is the bailiwick of elder family members. :)



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PAMDAQTPI
5/14/2013 11:01:51 AM

Thanks for your comments on my blog, it means a lot to me.



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