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Goal: I will reduce my body fat to 15% through regular exercise by 30 August 2010.

I will do this by:

• Visiting the gym 3 times per week for no less then 30 min per session for at least 4 weeks.
• Eliminating wheat & gluten from my diet forever.
• Reducing the amount of alcohol & sugary drinks I drink and poor quality food I eat.
• Take my resting pulse every morning & check my weight & body fat every week.
• Regularly post inspiration and milestones on this blog.

These are the 5 things I am going to do to achieve my fitness goal.

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So the reality of it is that I am a couch potato. I have come to this conclusion from my escalating weight and unhappiness with my physical appearance.

I am going to keep this post short and sweet. Here is what has happened.

1. I read this – Couch to 10K
2. I did this:
   
3. Which made my heart do this:
   
4. Not even a mile without some sort of fitness emergency. Wow, I really messed myself up this time. After the 1st 400m my right knee was hurting. This may take some time.

PLENARY

What I learnt today was that I have to start small and gradual if I am ever going to do anything. I am also a lot less fit then I thought. I have to stay positive and stick with the couch to 10k for 10 weeks.In 10 weeks I will be 27 years old. This scares me.

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Wow what a month. Well it is nearly 2 really. I have had my first Christmas away from my immediate family, though I did spend Christmas day with my family.

I have set myself some new goals, fitness and personal. Today is the day I kick it all off.

I will report back if it is successful, I think I will be. I don’t know quite why I am blogging this. Its probably something to do with public accountability. Maybe thats is why I am so stop start too?

I feel strong though. Mentally strong. I feel I have a purpose. I feel the need to push myself on. I want to break myself down to my component parts and start again.

“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”
- Evan Esar

I want to find me. I want to fond my limits and push them. I want to feel alive. I think in modern life we worry too much about everytthing. I want to get back to me.

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

Buddha.

If I can punish myself the most, make myself hurt the most, then no one can ever beat me. No one can ever hurt myself as much as I can. And this is also the reverse.

“The only person stopping me, is me”
Paul Williams.

I am my own worst enemy. Well enemy, lets go to war. Lets light the paper and see where this goes. Lets blow this up.
Finally. The truth I needed to hear:

”
For some of you, it’s decision time. You know it and you’ve known for a long time. Of course you can find more reasons not to change and more ways to rationalise what you’re not doing, being and creating… or you can simply stop with the excuses and explanations… and change. Once and for all. You can train like you wanna play. You can be the change in your world. Today can be ‘just another day’ and this post can simply be ‘just another one of my articles’ that you don’t act on – or it can be the start of the most incredible journey you’ve ever had.

I made my choice long ago.”
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/learning-personal-development-from-elite-athletes.html

Here’s to the future.

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