Goals

Ok here's the deal. My little brother is getting married in 2 months. I can't believe it! I am so excited to go to Utah and see a lot of family and friends and celebrate with Joe and Jessica.

I am still 16 pounds from my pre-pre baby weight. I was 130 pounds before I got pregnant with Jase. After pregnancy I lost most the weight but I had a lingering 8 pounds still hanging on. I wasn't too bothered by this though because I was still at a healthy weight. So now after have my second baby I am at 146- another 8 pounds more still hanging on. I'm beginning to worry a little. I do not want to gain 8 pounds every time I have a child so I much act now. My goal is to loss these 16 pounds before my brothers wedding- basically this is just a big motivation factor- I don't want to be the slightly plumper sister at the wedding, but I also really really want to run s few races here in Boston and eventually a half-marathon.

So I got me a running buddy- thanks Laura, and I'm using the 'My Plate' application on livestrong.com to help me track my calorie intake as well as what I burn while training for a few races.

Starting out slowly:

I'm running a 5k July 24th in Boston and then a 10k October 10th. I will also set up a meal plan each week to follow and I will report back to this blog how I did each day. Basically I just need a place to report back to so I feel responsible to other people and myself- just going off the thought that maybe somebody somewhere is reading this and I don't want to look dumb by failing in front of another person/people. I extremely motivated by competition with others.

Ready...set...GO!