Update (belated)

Long... LONG time no blog.

More than a year.

What's happened in the last year? Well I work full time now which is great because I feel more like I'm checking the boxes in the "life achievement" lists*. But it is still at  the Reception of an apartment building and I still feel like I'm waiting for my "real life" to begin.

I'm currently doing the 12 Week Body Transformation program (12wbt.com) and going well so far. I've been slowly trying to lose weight since February 2010 and am getting somewhere. I started off at nearly 95kgs (!!!!!) and got down to 79ish when we moved to Queensland (July 2010). Then I got back up to 85, and now I'm back down to 76kg. And nearly 5 of those kilos have come off in 2 weeks :P

My goal for the next 10 weeks is to get down to 68kg. Safely under 70 - and then the next goal is to STAY safely under 70. If I can get to 64.4kg (don't worry - that's healthy according to my BMI and also my weight 10 years ago) then I will be able to say "I lost 30kg!" which would be amazing... and a bit embarrassing!


Actually those goals with numbers and milestones etc., are more "mini-goals". My BIG goal is to be a fit, healthy, happy person. One of the really BIG milestones to prove that I'm there will come in September when I'm going to run the Bridge to Brisbane. TEN KILOMETRES! Yes: 10! In my wildest dreams I never would have considered running 10 kilometres, yet I've signed up, I've paid registration and I'm going to do it.

I did a test yesterday - I wanted to see how far I could walk in 85 minutes (the maximum for the 10k jogger group that I'm signed up for). I made it 7.6km before my hips started to really complain, and I'd been going for about 70 minutes. Not so bad!

My next steps are to:

• Run non-stop for 2km.
• Walk 10km in 85 minutes.
• Run and walk 10km.
• Run non-stop for 3km.
• Run and walk 10km faster than previously.
• Run non-stop for 4km.

Etc.

I don't think I will be able to run 10km non-stop by September. I mean, I will try! But I'm just so stoked that I can actually run any sort of distance at all, that that is enough. For now.

Maybe my next goal will be to run 10km non-stop in the Bridge to Brisbane 2013... 

Ah if only high-school Amanda could see me now. She'd think I'm insane! And also a bit lame :P

Well, wish me luck! I'm going to go for a walk (not quite 10km today - don't want to hurt the hips), and apply for a job - days off are awesome!

XO

*Life achievement lists is something that I have in my head: things I'm supposed to have done to qualify as a successful adult. It isn't particularly healthy I'm sure, and I know when I get to the end of my life I'm not going to be graded depending on how I've done... but they are sort of goals that I feel I'd like to accomplish. I know they are socially constructed and blah blah blah. But just because they are socially constructed doesn't mean I can't want them! 

I think it is important to realise that they are socially influenced ideas of what you "should do", and understand that your happiness is not dependent on these things. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try to get them if you want them. There: self-justifying over!