Monthly Update & Goals for April

So the end of March brought my 5K training to an end and a succesful completion of my first race. I am planning on setting a goal of running 6 races this year. The other four that I have planned as of now are: a 10K in May (still trying to figure that one out), a half-marathon in September, a 5K in November for Thanksgiving, and I still need to find two more, preferably another 10K or a 10-miler in July/August and a 5K/10K in December.


I met all of my goals for March!! I lost 10% of my beginning weight on March 16th!! I actually lost more than 10% on that weigh in. I was able to run the ENTIRE 5K with the help of my supportive husband, God, and my survivor aunt who was cheering me out despite what she was going through! And I successfully began training for my first 10K that I plan to run in May.

I also had a goal in my head that I wanted to weigh what I weighed 2 years ago before I started bootcamp before the two year anniversary came around in April. I started bootcamp in April of 2009 weighing 2 pounds more than I weigh in April 2011!!! Yay for reaching my goals! I cannot thank God enough. He has really helped me through this all! I know that my strength and discipline comes from Him!


I didn't decide on anything to give up for Lent so I decided to make my own 40 day period of fasting from a particular item. I have decided to give up sweets and chips (!) from April 5 to May 15. I really hope I can do it! I plan on eating some sweets before then but not overloading. I don't really eat a lot but I want to really kick my weight loss into high gear since me and several of my close friends will be going on a beach trip to Destin, FL in the middle of June. I really want to wear a two-piece on this trip but I still need to do more work and I want to lose those last 11-15 pounds by this trip so I can rock my new two-piece!!


Here are my goals for April:
Goal 1: Fish only for the month of April. Along with none of the following: candy, desserts, sweets, fried foods, and chips until May 15th.

Goal 2: Lose at least 5 more pounds by the end of April. I keep wondering when I am going to taper off...I really hope no time soon since I am not too far from my first goal.

Goal 3: Eat cleaner. I am not going to eat clean all the way but I am going to limit my intake of white foods-raw sugar instead of white sugar, no white breads, no white potatoes, etc. Again, this was something that I did during my boot camp and it seemed to help.

Still looking forward to more and more changes! I'm in this to win it!!!