So what is the goal here?

Good question....what is the goal here? What is my overall purpose and what are my expectations for my end results? Will I ever be finished? Before I tackle these not-so-easy questions, I actually have one for you: How did you do with my challenge for this past Sunday? Did you take advantage of your day, turn off the distractions and enjoy your families, hobbies or the weather? We did. I can happily report that after we got home from church we spent almost the entire day outside, and we all have the sunburns to prove it! This is also why I have been MIA from daily posting recently. I realized how MUCH I enjoyed not affixing myself to the TV or facebook. It was great and I have spent the last few days finding things to do other than these distractions. So now that beings me back to my blog post title. Yesterday after a super fun cardio workout on just a balance ball, Ben asked me what my overall weight goal is this time. Ideally, my ideal goal would be to weigh (and I can't believe I am putting this out into cyber-space) 105-108. This was where I was post-Connor, pre-moving. Right about the time I was running the half-marathon. I felt so confident and good in my skin. I worked hard but didn't beat myself up if we went out to eat and I had dessert after dinner. Post-move, post-baby, this puts me at about a 30 lb. weight loss target. I told Ben this and he just kind of looked at me and said, "Well, it's a goal to work towards." He's right, you know. Not that it is a goal to work towards, which it is, but that look that says "wow, you're being a little over-confident." He's right. I am being a little optimistic. I have lost 1 lb. so far, so says the scale at the OB's office. And it was that weight loss that made me change my "goal." My goal for weight loss after having 2 kids, being over 30 with a metabolism that hates me right now is to lose 1 lb. Yep, you just read that right. I want to lose 1 lb. And when I lose that 1 lb., I want to lose 1 lb. You see the method to the madness? Instead of shooting for the moon and beating myself up for taking steps back or falling down, I am going to wake up each morning and just put one foot infront of the other. Losing 1 lb. is going in the right direction and that it a fanastic goal for me. Ironically, during my run this afternoon I kept singing a little song in my head. Not a song actually, but the line from a song to keep me motivated. It's from Finding Nemo. It's the part where Dora keeps singing, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming." That's all I'm going to do here...keep my head above water and just keep swimming.