I need to put this down for myself but feel free to read :) This is about me starting with the Extreme Transformation (ET) in 2017. I am just at the beggining of first real ET week so I don't have much to say just some thoughts and declarations.
So where am I now? I am 34 (35 this year in november) and I am around 30 kg overweight. Compared to the peops in the show it's not much. Well it's clasified as obesity not overweight in my case. So my goal for the ET is to lose this 30 kgs. At first I was thinking about "before my next birthday" but then I realised I like running. Well I do not run much nowadays...or let's say not at all as I do not remember myself running in 2016. But the years before I even did some 5k races. Although I always ended up with the slowest runners I loved it. And I always wanted to run halfmarathon or marathon. The marathon in our city is the oldest annual marathon run in Europe and one of the oldest in the world (some say 5th, some 6th, I don't care much but still it's 92 runs...that's a lot). So I kind of grew up watching thousands of people run from our balcony every year. And I always dreamt about running it but I was never good at running when I was a kid and I also started to gain weight when I was maybe 8 years old and the marathon was out of question back then. I have another tons of excuses why I did not try later but the main one is "I am fat so I cannot run". Therefore my goal is to get rid of this 30 kg before October 1st 2017 when I want to run my first ever halfmarathon in the oldest European run. As the longest run in my life was 5k I need to work on this as well but this can be done togehter. Everyone says that running is best for losing weight.
I also started this dietbet week ago but this week was a disaster when it comes to eating healthy. I was not prepared, I did not plan ahead and that is why I failed. I know it. I can do it and I can still get to the goal weight in the bet which is to lose 3.8 kg. I still have 3 weeks left.
So I finally bought the Extreme Transformation book last week, hurray :) On Itunes - that was a big mistake cause I could only read it on my iphone as I do not own any other ithings. But I read through first 150 pages in one breath (until the end of first week in the book) on the phone. And then I bought another copy with huge first buy discount (almost free) so I can finally read it on my PC and make notes. That was the beginning. I know what to do, how to do it and I have a plan.
Reading the first week of ET I immediately felt like the most important part of the it would be to keep promises to myself. Like many people I put others first mostly, I keep my promises to them usually and I do not promise anything to me at least I am not aware of any promises I made to myself for a long time. I usually use "I will try" or "I want" but not "I promise". Since I started with dieting changes I always somehow lost it and get back to where I was and that's why I do not promise myself anything as it would be doomed to failure. But not anymore. I am going to work on this one promise at a time.
As a trial power promise without even starting the ET I chose my guitar practice (as I did not want anything that might be related to weight loss). I started with guitar like 10 times before and always somehow stopped even though I love to play. Without practice my skill were not developing and when I tried to play from time to time it was getting worse not better. So the promise to myself was just to practice for 5 minutes daily. The whole practice session I do is about 30 minutes so 5 minutes would be doable everyday for sure. I can even play at night as I have electric guitar and headphones. And guess what? 7 days passed and I did not skip any day and always did whole session. I always thought I am busy person and would not find time the whole session everyday. But I did. I have full 7 days strike of kept promise. That's a start.
For the first week of the actual ET I want to continue with the guitar and as I feel that my biggest problem would be with food I rather choose the activity goals as a power promise. They would be easier to keep and build trust. So I hereby promise to myself to do at least 5 minutes Accelerator Mon to Sat and complete every Metabolic Mission Mon to Fri for the first week.
Of course I will aim also to keep all the other aspects of the ET but I still do not trust myself that much. I know this will follow in the next weeks. I just need to start small and add chunks of the healthy lifestyle to it and build a habit out of these promises.
I also spotted some weak points in my previous diets. For example I never took a "before" picture. I was too ashamed and I still am of how I look. I am not planning to show it to anyone for now apart from me. But still I took a photo or rather two (from the front and side) as a reminder where I am. I need to face the reality. I also never had a diary or any kind of the tracker apart from weight tracker. So this time I started ET diary to keep track of the results, goals, promises, etc. Already put in my WHAT and WHY. I also did the first fitness test. I was suprised by some of the results as they were better than I thought but hey I had to do easier version of these as I could not do the full version at all. But no shame no blame, this is my starting point and I know it will get better.
From tomorrow I will start to work on my transformation with food changes as well. So wish me luck or whatever is needed to start and never stop :) Time to plan/prepare food for next few days.
So good week to all of you, hope you all will keep your promises to yourselves and good luck for the rest of the journey.