5 Mile Challenge
For the past 10 days, I have been taking self portraits, and I have come to realize a few things....
I really really miss having my nice camera when I am traveling. Having the little one is just not the same.
I need to lose some weight. I hate the way that I look. Not that I have a problem with my self image. I know what I am and I know what I'm not. I know I'm not terribly obese, no matter what my BMI score may tell me, but I've certainly got some padding that needs to come off.
I figure that when I was wrestling, the start of the season was so damn miserable, but it did a good job of getting your weight in check, so I think that I'm going to put myself through a weight cutting regiment, cutting daily intake, and really just working towards getting off that first 10 lbs, working out twice a day and just overall trying to be healthy about life.
Awhile ago, Laura and I tried a soup diet, eating nothing but soup for a week. I think that I went through about 5 days and couldn't stand eating the terrible terrible soup anymore, but in the end, I had shed 8 lbs, which was pretty impressive. While some of it was probably water weight, I still felt pretty good, and that's what I'm striving for. I think that I may start making sandwiches for lunch and bringing those in because it'll really moderate the amount that I eat. Dinner is the tricky part. I'll figure out a way to make it work.
When I moved to my parents house, I had three goals.
#1) Lose weight
#2) Save money
#3) Figure out what I am doing with my life
Working on number one, number 2 is well on it's way, and number three.... well... I know "where" as in the physicality, but I still don't know what I'll be doing in the big picture of things.
So along the lines of my photo challenge, I am going to make another challenge to myself. I want to run 5 miles a day, every day for the next month. I figure that I will give myself 4 free days where I don't have to run it, but other than that, I think this is a doable challenge to myself. Will I do it? I don' t know, but it sure won't hurt to try.