Ready to Rumble?

Yes, yes I am.

Am I motivated? Absolutely.

Am I nervous. You better believe it!

Today is the first day of a 12 week fitness challenge that I’m throwing myself into with every muscle in my body.

My goals? To improve the way I eat and lose a few pounds, to tone up this body that has gone soft from years of neglect, and to improve my overall fitness level. I’d like to be able to snow ski with the boys, I’d like to learn to wakeboard this summer, I’d like to be able to hop back on my bike and do two loops at Muleshoe again.

How am I going to get there? Well sitting around and thinking about it hasn’t gotten me much of anywhere in the last several years. What all that thinking did was help me to realize that what I needed was nutrition training, motivation, routine, and most importantly… accountability. That’s when I seem to excel. When someone besides myself is really expecting me to get something done. Then I can move mountains. If I'm only accountable to myself I tend to move wine glasses.

Enter Andrea who, driven by goals of her own, invited me to join her for a 12 week body camp with Revelation Fitness, owned by her friend Mariah MacDonald. Perfect. 5 minutes later and a quick scan of the program I realized it had every element I needed to get this body moving again and I jumped in before I could think twice.

Now the start of that 12 weeks is here.

I met with Mariah last week for an orientation session before we begin training Tuesday. Basic nutrition counseling, goal setting, measurements, and even the dreaded “before” pictures.

I’m glad I got started early because it gave me a few days to fool around with the food logs and learn that grilled cheese sandwiches just really aren’t a great choice when you are looking to lose weight. Of course I knew that but until you see the numbers you don’t realize just how bad a choice it is!

So remember my somewhat modest goals above? Improve my nutrition, tone those arms and legs, maybe lose 5-10 pounds along the way and generally improve my fitness level? Yea, no. New revised goals after 30 minutes with Mariah...

• Run the Hill Country Twilight 5K in 32 minutes at the end of June.
• Lose 22 pounds,
• 3 dress sizes,
  
• and 14% body fat by July 29^th!

I can only imagine how intense this is going to get. But I can do anything for 12 weeks. Particularly when someone is expecting me to do it and has absolutely no intention of letting me fail.

Twelve weeks. That is 3 months. One quarter. Half a semester. One trimester. It is the blink of an eye. And likely the longest 12 weeks I can imagine. I’m sure there will be day,s many days when my commitment wavers but… it’s only twelve weeks. Put one foot in front of the other. Turn the crank. I’ve surprised myself before.