30 by 30? well alright then

ok i'm back. the reason i've been gone? going primal is freaking hard lor. been doing it half-assed for the past 6 months or so and now i think i'm finally ready to do it full-assed.

i'd been looking for a reason to make this work and none seemed to stick. i considered doing it for myself and my own good, but it just didn't seem like a good enough reason to me... maybe because i consider myself relatively healthy albeit overweight. yes, i know the weight is a problem in itself but i can run a 5k, i can bust out a few push ups and squats and do planks... maybe i don't look as good as i'd like to but that's why i only take pictures from neck up :p

after comtemplating the situation sommore, i finally came to a conclusion... i need to do this to be a walking ad on what eating right and being active can do for people. first of all, not just any people but for my family. i have had an aunt who passed away from brain cancer, another is currently battling colon cancer and i don't want to see anyone else going down that road. a close family friend and my hubby's religious teacher also recently passed away from colon cancer. i tried telling my aunt about going primal/ paleo and she started telling me about cancer patients who went on a green juice diet and had to do it FOREVER and alkaline water. i was like, whut???

then i realised that just preaching about this lifestyle is not going to cut it. i need to SHOW them that it works, and hopefully that will interest them enough to want to try it for themselves. therefore my new goal: 30 pounds off by the time i turn 30 in august. why 30? because 13.6kg just doesn't sound as nice. haha. it is a little more than i was originally planning to lose but you know what they say... if your goals don't scare you, you're not aiming high enough. or in this case, low enough.

hopefully i will be blogging more regularly. maybe once a week for a start and we'll see how it goes from there. so here goes nothing, starting stats and first goal:

start point:
vitals 112-99-103 (cm)
weight 77kg/ 170 lbs

first goal:
weight 74.8kg/ 165 lbs

yup that's all i'm measuring. vital stats and weight. using weight as a goal marker as it's easier than calculating vital stats. don't worry, will be posting up the stats that go with the weight. i did not set a time frame for when i should get to the first goal, but i figure the 8 wk countdown is scary enough :)

8 weeks to birthday!!