100

I started this journey with over a hundred pounds to lose. This is the one hundredth post for this blog and if I live to be a century old, I know that the list that follows will still be valid and will help me maintain the weight that I am currently working towards. I am recording here a hundred reasons for creating the healthier lifestyle that I yearn to achieve. A little more than one hundred days before starting this online journal I weighed the heaviest I ever have, but every one of these motivators has helped during that time to get me onto a better path. I will do this!

I WILL DO THIS FOR MY:
- ability to inspire
- acceptance of self
- activity level
- appearance
- appreciation of being alive
- blood sugar
- body mass index reading
- brain
- breathing
- capabilities
- capacity to model healthy choices
- chance to learn
- character
- cholesterol
- comfort
- commitment
- confidence
- creaky knees
- discovery
- double chin
- drive
- embarrassment
- emotions
- endurance
- energy
- enjoyment
- enrichment
- enthusiasm
- evolution
- expectations
- experience
- family
- fears
- fitness
- flabby arms
- flexibility
- focus
- friends
- future
- future children
- future grandchildren
- goals
- good sense
- habits
- happiness
- health
- heart
- holistic welfare
- honour
- hope
- humor
- husband
- hydration
- integrity
- irrational thoughts
- joy
- life
- long term goals
- love of life
- measurements
- memories
- mind
- moderation of food
- motivation
- nutrients
- participation level
- peace
- perceptions
- personal growth
- photographs
- possibilities
- potential
- pride
- quest to be the best me that I can
- range of movement
- readers
- reality
- recognition of effort
- reflection
- sanity
- satisfaction
- self
- self-control
- self-esteem
- sense of worth
- sexuality
- shopping enjoyment
- socialization
- sodium levels
- spirit
- stamina
- strength
- stubbornness
- style
- thunder thighs
- tone
- ultimate success
- waistline
- weight
- well-being

FOOD & BEVERAGES:
- 9 glasses of water throughout the day
- 1 pear
- 3 cups of beef and broccoli
- 3/4 cup fat free strawberry yogurt with 1 cup of Force Active cereal
- 2 cups of celery with 2 Tb. light peanut butter
- 1 orange

EXERCISE:
- 10 sets of 30 stomach crunches (4 straight, 3 right, and 3 left)
- 10 sets of 10 knee push ups
- 5 sets of 15 lunges for each leg
- 5 sets of 15 squats
- 2 sets of 5 minutes of weight lifting with 5 lbs per arm