The Big Scary I Don't Want To Say It Out Loud Goal.

gulp. I'm going say my goal out loud. gulp.

I have felt fear to say it out loud. I'm afraid I'll feel more pressure to finish aka feel more stress to finish aka feel more negative if I don't make it. The thing I remind myself, when the fear threatens to keep me from saying it, is that in the end, I will reach my goal. I will finish losing the weight. Period. Today I'm just going to say out loud a pretty ambitious goal for when I would like to have lost the last of it.

I will work to lose the last pound by the end of lent this year. That's April 4. Easter Sunday.

33 pounds. 12 Sundays. 6 weeks (at least) traveling.

I decided to change my life at the beginning of lent 2008 and think it's fitting to end it on Easter. It's not a goal I can reach coasting by...exercising as I wish instead of as I need, eating "treats" with regularity. It will be reached through discipline, determination and the belief I know have in myself. It will be reached because of the belief you have in me.

And if April 4 rolls around and 139.8 doesn't appear on the scale than I will step off knowing it will happen...just not that day. But between now and April 4 the only thing I will think is "Get It Done!"