My biggest goal is to get out of double-digit jeans sizes! Then my final goal will be to achieve a healthy BMI. Just starting this journey seriously, those goals seem so far off and impossible!!! Short term goal: lose 5 pounds by the end of February and work myself up to attending kick boxing classes three times a week!

My goal is to do jillian michaels 30 day shred, lose some inches and be able to fit my size 10 clothes comfortably again. I enjoy doing at home dvds for now. Once my body gets stronger thenni want to go back to the spinning class at the Y that i was too out of shape to finish.

Good evening everyone!

My goals are to get to my goal weight of 145, finish my Insanity program (day 13 tomorrow!), and cut down on the soda.

Good luck to you all in reaching your goals. Let's do this! :flowerforyou:

So how has it gone today everyone? This was day 1 for me, I went to my first spin class this morning and it was great! I'm really looking forward to going again on Wednesday.

I would count that as a huge victory, I love it when you see an improvement, even if it's only tiny!

I have several goals I'm hoping to reach. Over the last 10 years or so I have completely let myself go to the point that in November I topped out at 405lbs. Thats when I said enough is enough. I have been hitting the gym at least 30 minutes a day 5 to 6 times a week and started watching my calories. I got the MFP app on my iPad in late Dec or early Jan and that has helped quite a bit. Since I started this I'm now down to 372lbs so I'm doing well and making progress. I still have a long way to go. My goal weight is 215. Last time I was this weight I was the most fit I had ever been. I also hope to be able to go running with my son. He runs cross country and track and I have never been able to do that. My wife is a runner too and she hopes to get me to run some 5k's with her. So that is also a goal. It would also be great to buy clothes at a store that doesn't have he words "Big and Tall" in the title. These are just a few things I look forward to being able to do with some hard work, hopefully sooner than later.

I have been doing very well with my progress, thank you guys for all the support. It really means a lot.

I want to add two more short term goals to the big ones I listed earlier. These two were pipedreams just a few months back but now I think I can actually achieve them.

1. I have a scheduled doctor's checkup on July 23. My doctor has been practically begging me to drop the weight for years now. When I go in for a checkup, the first thing they make me do is get on a scale. It is not a digital scale. Its the old ones with the sliding counterbalancing weights that measure how much you weigh. This old scale only goes up to 350lbs. I haven't been able to be weighed on it for years. They still make me get on it though and the nurse gives me a weird look every time and just writes something like "Exceeds Scale" in my file. It's pretty humiliating. My new goal is to be able to have an actual weight recorded in my file. I'm currently down to 359. Only nine more to go. At my current pace I should make it and them some.

2. I put on a national conference on disability rights every year called the National ADA Symposium. It is in Denver this year in June. This is really the only time of the year I get really dressed up. I hate wearing the old suit and tie. I only only own one suit right now. I bought it a few years ago and I pull it out for this event every year. I really don't like the look of it anymore but why bother getting a new one. My next new goal is to be forced to buy myself a new suit come the Symposium in June because hopefully the current one will just be too big.

Wish me luck!