I was unemployed for 18 months, but did manage to go from 250 to 220 and I am at 217.8 right now. Two of my over all goals is to get my wine certification and hit 175 pounds.

I decideded to change my ways when I had a very bad incident with beer, I tend to only have two meals each day and on this day I skipped breakfast and lunch and was introduced to the best beer ever, a Goose Island Bourbon Porter which carries the alcohol of three beers. I lost my car and apartment keys iin my by alcohol induced haze.

I had read the Power Of Habit and learned how hard habits are to break. They wrote about how mice are put on electrodes that read their brain. They discovered that first yes the mice were thinking how to get through the maze then once it was learned their brains were not even used. They discovered a more rudimentary part of the brain took over so that the mice could learn new things.

So most of our behaviors once learned go into this rudimentary part of our brain without us even thinking about it. I was always losing my keys, after reading this book I made a commitment to always put my keys and wallet in the same place. I have come home not really thinking of what I am doing but I always find my keys now the next day.

I also started reading Super Brain and they made an observation about negative self talk and how this act impacts us for the worse. After my drunken stupor I was so disappointed in myself but this observation came to me about negative self talk and right then and there I made a commitment to change and figure things out.

I composed 12 goals on Dec 1st then I read somewhere where you have to measure and decided to do a 100 day challenge. Tuesday was the last day of the 1st 20 day period so I am going to post my work on my goals then try to beat this baseline for the next 80 days and hit 200 pounds.

Goal one-10%
Goal two- 80%
Goal #3. -80%
Goal #4. – 45%
Goal #5. -35%
Goal #6 – 90% exercising
Goal #7 – 75%
Goal #8 – 70%
Goal #9 – 70%
Goal#10 – 40%
Goal 11 – 75%
Goal 12 – 85%

Overall rate is 60.4% so this is my baseline for the next 80 days.
Weight is 217.8
Certification is a minus.

I really started on Dec 1 and I finally see progress. I have been to the gym 18 out 20 days and meditated 16 out of 20 days. It took me until Dec 26 to finally implament that goal and I am very afraid that I might just stop. Waking up at 6 am was terrible but I see a difference this week. since I had a mini streak of waking up at 6 for four days in a row.

I would say measure, remind your self every day, no negative self talk just start again.

I found one small thing in this article that I think should be amended. In the line:
“If an attractive woman catches my eye, then I will try to talk to her.”
Personally I believe the “try” should be removed. “Try” is a soft word, and when you tell yourself, “I will talk to her,” you are not leaving yourself another choice.