New Year... On The Way to New Me!!

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Former title of post: 2007 the Year in Review, a Look Ahead at 2008

Where I was/am, weight-wise:

January 1, 2007.... 286.6 January 1, 2008.... 259.6 (home scale) That's a loss of 27 lbs this year!! Praise God!! Ok, ok... 33 lbs shy of my 60 pound goal for the year, but it is still great progress. Like FLY Lady said all year: "Progress... not perfection... in 2007" LOL!!

As some of you know, it is my goal to be in ONEDERLAND by the end of 2008, so I really am cracking the whip on this. Tightening the belt. Still determining how exactly I am going to accomplish this. Core/Flex? Take a breather and dust off the Curves book and with a new attitude go through their eating/food program again? "If it isn't broke, why change it? Stay with WW" comes to mind, but then again, like I have said so many times over again... maybe I know just how much "cheating" I can do and get by... treading water.... if that is the case, maybe it *is* time to shake things up. Switch the eating around. Change the working out. ;-)

I logged 2,924,614 steps in 2007, for a 2.5 year total of 6,755,293 steps walked!! That is 1462 miles this year and 3377 overall!! I need a mere 3,244,707 in 2008 to reach my 10 million steps goal!! At 10,000 a day that would take me 325 days.... projected to reach this mid-November LOL!!

Another milestone and hurrah for 2007 was my Bloomsday time... remember this is a 12K (so roughly 7.48 miles) here's the comparison again to '06:

2007:

Finish Time: 2:17:36 Overall Place: 29,003 out of 39,382 Ran with a pace of 18:26 per mile The average pace for 39-year-olds was 14:46

2006:

Finish Time: 2:32:10 Overall Place: 36,838 out of 40,806 Ran with a pace of 20:23 per mile The average pace for 38-year-olds was 14:32

Sooooooo...... for Bloomsday 2008, other than to be at the weight-range goal I have set for myself, I would like to be able to "run" part of it this year vs. walking the whole darned thing and thus improving my time by another 15-30 minutes. This is, after all, the reason I have been doing the C25K "training"

Thanks for sharing my year in review with me and sit down, hold on and get ready to FLY through 2008!!

in WA310/258.6/170 (WW Flex) +1.4 this week (Merry Christmas)WOOOOHOOOOO - 51.4 lbs gone!!Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet.-AnonymousSee AOL's top rated recipes and easy ways to stay in shape for winter.