{"id":100,"date":"2010-11-12T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/a-starting-point\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T20:55:06","slug":"a-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/a-starting-point\/","title":{"rendered":"A Starting Point"},"content":{"rendered":"
There’s something about turning 30 that seems different from all the other numbers before it. 20 isn’t the same. I didn’t feel like I was a “real” adult at 20; I had so many “adult” things ahead of me. But here comes 30. It’s just months away now. I have a little over thirty weeks to go before my birthday next July, so it’s probably time to start on my goals. I figure 30 weeks is significant enough time to get through a really big goal: I want to lose 30 pounds in the 30 weeks before my 30th birthday.30 pounds isn’t just a number – it’s more of a lifestyle change. It’s a course correction. My four-year-old daughter likes to play tag, which she calls “bad guy”. I can play for about ten minutes, running around in our basement, until I’m kind of done. I want to be able to play until she’s the one that has to stop, not me. I want to be able to enjoy my favorite things more: playing with my kids, softball, basketball… the list goes on. The reasons for doing this are all around me. I don’t look how I want to in pictures any more. I recently started needing size 40 jeans. If I stay on this course too much longer, I’ll need much more than a course correction. I could say more about why I’m starting, but I want to keep this short and focused. I can add more later.<\/p>\n

The goal: 30 pounds in 30 weeks. I already know a few things that work for me: measurement and accountability. It’s often said “where performance is measured, performance improves”. That’s why the blog. I also like using a “weighted average” seen in The Hacker’s Diet and at physicsdiet.com<\/a>. The weighted average helps me see through the daily ups and downs on the scale. I’ve done physicsdiet.com<\/a> before. I’m adding something new this time: more measurement and more accountability. I’m going to say what I eat and how much of it I eat and my extra accountability is to you. I want to set my goal weight at 230, because that’s a much prettier-sounding goal. I’ll give myself 33 weeks, which is July 1st, 2011, another nice round number. That gives me time to look good for the pictures. Once I get to 230, I don’t want my weighted average to go above 230 again.<\/p>\n

Today’s weight: 262.4
\nWeeks to go: 33
\nPounds to go: 32.4
\nGoal Date: Friday July 1, 2011<\/p>\n

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