100x

What 100x Means to me……..

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Okay so here we go just 4 days until the kick off of my first 100x Challenge. What do I want to do?  Well my BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) is to lose 100 pounds in 100 days. What is it going to take to do that?

  1. Food- A total shift in the way the family eats. We as a family NL and Hubs and I have promised to eat 100 healthy meals in 100 days. One healthy meal a day is not going to melt off 100 pounds. It’s going to take 3 healthy meals a day so that’s eating healthy for 300 meals
  2. Movement- It’s going to mean moving every day for an hour or more. Heck I’m a housewife what else do I have to do?  Oh yeah feed the family and clean the house. Movement does not include the trek up and down the three flights of stairs and that’s it for the day. this means lacing up the running shoes and kicking some asphalt! I’ve done it before I can do it again.
  3. Support- Not just “Oh your trying to lose weight that’s great” I mean someone to encourage, to push, to carry when I doubt. I’ve got that! My great friend the creator of the 100x Movement Jess!
  4. Determination- Determination that I will not let any negative people or thoughts derail my progress.

So all in all what does 100x mean to me? It means a paradigm shift not only in thinking but in actions and reactions.  Join me what can you change in 100 days? What can you achieve in 100 days?

I Challenge YOU! You have four days what will you change?

L.

Life The Universe and the Leftovers…..

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So this isn’t my first blog rodeo. I’ve done several online journals. Never really written to share with others. This is the beginning of something new and exciting.

A few days ago an old friend of mine was talking about her 100x challenge. I started paying attention to what she was saying and started getting excited about coming up with my own 100x challenge.

The concept is really easy and you can find an explanation here.

Why? You ask would I want to do a 100 day challenge?  Let’s take a few steps backwards. In 2010 I ran 4 half marathons. Yes I purposely ran/walked/jogged 13.1 miles FOUR times. Along with those halves I also participated in a handful of 5ks. During all of this I lost weight, felt wonderful and was really changing my health.

Towards the end of 2010 I started having problems not feeling well tired all the time and just out of sorts. I thought I had a flu bug and had just pushed my body to far to fast.  I had gone from training 20 miles a week to zip, zero, zilch.  I was lucky if I could stay awake. I was going to bed at 9pm and not waking until 11am or so depending on the day.  In March of 2012 I was diagnosed with a sever kidney infection. The doctor put me on a heavy duty antibiotic. Two days in  to treatment I had a life threatening reaction to the antibiotic. My husband raced me to the emergency room. There I was treated with antihistamines and epinephrine. 

My body seemed so run down. I caught any bug that was even in the same building I was. This made for a pretty hard 2011 and for most of 2012.

On Saturday August 4th I was out shopping at having lunch with a friend and all the sudden I couldn’t breath, began sweating profusely and had sever abdominal pain on my right side. Yet another trip to the emergency room discovered that I had an unhappy gallbladder. (as if an internal organ has emotions)

The next day the surgeon removed said organ and I went home later that day. As the week progressed after the surgery I started to feel so much better. Now almost a week later here I am getting ready to start a 100x challenge and to change my world and my life again……….

 

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