What ages have been defining years in your life?
Age 25 was a defining year for me. I tore the ACL in my left knee, ten years after I tore and had surgery on the right one. I was diagnosed with celiac disease. If those two life events weren’t enough, I was also completing my first full year as a classroom teacher in an innovative school model. With the support of my husband, family, and amazing co-workers, I finally started putting my health before work (since I basically didn’t have a choice at this point), and with their support, learned to not let myself feel guilty for it. With these emotional breakthroughs, plus the fact that I finally have a more complete picture of my health and what my body needs to thrive, and I am ready to make 26 yet another defining year for me.
By the time I turn 27, I will be consistently eating for health in a balanced and healthy manner, I will no longer fit the medical definition of obese, and I will crave and love exercising again like I did when I was a teenager.
To help me stay focused on health as a fun journey and one that is centered around more than just weigh loss, but positive habits, I created a Fitness Bucket List for age 26. Here are all the activities I want to complete by June 7, 2016:
- Try every fitness class at my gym.
- Complete Blogilates for Beginners calendar.
- Complete a monthly calendar for Blogilates.
- Go at least one month in which Dan and I only eat out one meal a week.
- Make at least 5 recipes from the Oh She Glows cookbook.
- Make at least 5 recipes from the Skinnytaste cookbook.
- Make at least 10 new recipes from the Tone It Up nutrition plan.
- Run in a 5K race.
- Bike 100 miles outside on my road bike (versus a stationary bike at the gym) by the end of fall break 2015.
- Complete the Workitout 100 challenge.
- Complete a Whole30 challenge.
- Complete the 21 Day Fix workout plan as written.
- Go to the gym and workout before work every day for a week.
- Do yoga every day for a month.
- Follow a Tone It Up weekly workout schedule exactly as written for at least one whole week.
I will be posting overall weekly updates on my Fit By 27 journey, as well as some individual posts about different items on my fitness bucket list. I’m very excited to finally prioritize my health and go after what I want. I know I have created fitness challenges and projects for myself in the past, and haven’t had a ton of sustaining success. I really believe I will achieve my goals, improve my attitude, and revise my lifestyle for keeps this year not because I have finally realized life is always busy and there is no perfect time to make big changes, but because I have finally matured enough to be able to handle that fact and just do it anyway. Here’s to 26 and getting fit!
Have you ever done any of the activities on my bucket list? Are you on a similar fitness journey yourself?
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