New Year's exercise and dieting thread.

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Motivation: better discipline, stronger resolve.
Goal: lose that extra 10 pounds and build up to marathon level endurance
Secondary goals: learn about eating correctly and redefine how I eat; cut out caffeinated drinks....zzzz

Method: Cut out simple carbs; quit eating in evenings, which is always my worst time.
Find a secondary, dynamic exercise that I can to shake things up with. Kickboxing and more swimming are the most likely choices at this point.
Consistency is my problem. To get results I need to change my patterns and not skip it for a couple of weeks when I get too busy or too lazy.


I'll add more when I think about it. Feel free to comment or get your own exercise plan going for the new year. I'd like this to be a part of a challenge to myself to build better discipline in my life. I seem to let time flow by without any goalposts. I'd like to change that. I probably will chart my progress here, so I will feel embarrassed if I don't live up to it. In reality, I should probably stop coming here, but everything in small steps.

Feel free to add your own goals if you think it might help you accomplish them.

My goals are to exercise more:
to develop a livable daily working relationship between food and exercise (IE, eat X amount of calories, exercise X off)
to replace some of my fat with muscle
to lose more weight so if I oscillate, it will be between skinny and skinnier, as opposed to chubby and curvy

Drinking more water would help with all this- I already drink a gallon a day, but I'd like to drink twice that.

Too much can dilute your electrolytes. If you're already eating like a bird, a gallon is plenty.

My goals, healthwise, stick to five small meals a day, (high protein, high carb), and all but give up diet soda. I haven't lost weight on the scale, but I'm slimming down.

Congrats!