April 27, 2008

I have lost two more pounds, so I am down to 182. I would like to lose 7 more pounds before I go home at the end of May. I am going to start training tomorrow for a Marathon that is exactly one year away. Many people believe that I will not be able to accomplish this task, but this is something that I WANT to do and now I have even more drive to prove them wrong. I realize that my motivation can not be the fact that people feel I can not do this. My motivation needs to come internally from me.

I am ready to face this challenge and I will not be alone. I am going to be doing this with my best friends. I did ask myself today, what if they do not have the same desire or want as I do. I know that we decided to take on this challenge together, but what if one of us becomes weak and wants to drop out, will the other continue??? I am not sure.

I do know that this is something that I have thought about doing for a while, however thought that it was impossible do to my size, but I am realizing that size does not matter. What matters, is how bad do you want something and I want this pretty bad.