Keep Your Goals!

I’m sure we all have experienced this from time to time, where we will set a goal and then when it doesn’t seem we will reach it, we adjust our goal. After seeing this quote it made me think, that’s probably not the best way to approach it.


Because I’m at a point where the weight comes off very slow, I decided instead of having weight-loss goals I would have non-scale goals to keep me from being discouraged. I still weigh in every week for accountability, but I’m just not focusing on the scale. Something I’ve recently set as a goal is to get some more 5Ks in, and then do a 10K by May and a 15K by October. And after I have my next assessment I will set some other non-scale goals. But, now I’m thinking I should still have some type of weight-loss goal, because I do still need and want to lose weight; but just not focus only on the weight-loss. I want to be realistic with the weight-loss, so I’m going to set a goal to lose 8 pounds in six weeks. I just started a 21 day challenge with Fitness Together that I think will help me, not only reach my weight-loss goal, but even some of my non-scale goals.


When we set a goal, typically we also have set some type of plan. But, as life can be unpredictable, plans don’t always go as expected. We really need to focus on the goal, and that should never change. If we see our goal won’t be reached when or how we were expecting it to, instead of changing the goal we should re-evaluate our plan and adjust where needed to reach that goal.

WHAT A WORKOUT!!!!

photo courtesy of Michael Watkins - owner/operator
Fitness Together Downtown Tulsa
Fitness Together Jenks/Riverside

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been kind of struggling to pull my thoughts together on what I should write about. Last couple days were kind of rough emotional days, but as usual I got through them with all the support and kind words from various people. So, even though today I woke up feeling a little better, I just wasn't sure what to expect when I showed up at 5:30 AM for my private session with Michael. He mentioned he was just thinking last night I hadn't blogged about one of our workouts lately. I should have known he had a beast of a workout planned for me!

But, before I get to this morning's workout, I want to mention some other things. Last night I had an opportunity to have a what I call a therapeutic run with Michael. We both were able to get a good run in, and I was able to spill my guts while he listened. After being able to talk with him, and then his crazy workout this morning, I went into work feeling better about things that were bothering me. But, then a few other things happened that really just made my day. I got an email from a girl I work with letting me know that I've been such an inspiration for her, and she's been doing well but was starting to lose motivation. She wanted to know what I did to keep my motivation with this new lifestyle change. It really made my day, and then had two other people make comments that it looked like I was getting smaller. This really made my day because the scales haven't been going down very much lately, so this at least is telling me that even if the scale isn't doing much I'm obviously improving elsewhere.

So, after being able to get through a couple of days of an emotional roller coaster, a killer workout, and few reminders of how well I'm doing; it caused my mental block to crack and I have a couple blog topics I'll be working on this week. The first one I plan on working on is how I keep my motivation living a healthy lifestyle. Look for that post within the next couple days!

But, in the meantime, let me just tell you about Michael's killer workout this morning! Two sets of exercises, four exercises each set. I worked 30 seconds on and 15 seconds of rest for four rounds each set! And by the way, it involved suicide push-ups! Oh, and that's not all! You gotta have a beast of a finisher, right? So, Mr. Watkins decides to let me do a EMOTM (Every Minute On The Minute) of 30 yard sled sprints at 100 pounds for 10 minutes! And I would also like to thank Michael for thinking of everything I would need for my blog and snapping the picture above while I did the sled sprints! Like I said, WHAT A WORKOUT!!!!!

My Thanks To You

Sometimes when someone asks me what's wrong, or what is on my mind, I have a difficult time expressing my thoughts verbally. This is one of the reasons I started my blog, so I could easily express my feelings and thoughts to get me through those difficult times. But, then there are days like today when I can't even figure out why I'm feeling down, which makes it difficult to express myself even through writing and my blog. All day I've been trying to figure out what I could blog about because it's been several days since I've written anything. I kept thinking of all these topics I could touch on, but couldn't seem to pull the thoughts together to write about it. I tend to start getting frustrated with myself when I can't explain why I'm not feeling myself. But, today instead of letting it bother me, I started to think about all the people who have been there for me. So, I want to take a moment to say thank you to all my friends and family who are always there encouraging and supporting me through, not just my good times, but also my bad moments. And a big thank you to those who continue to support and encourage me by reading my blog. I truly appreciate each of you. And don't worry, this mental block won't last long, and I'll soon be expressing my thoughts and opinions! :)