Regarding goals, kicking ass, and rewards

Admiral Adama and Kara Thrace
Battlestar Galactica

Meet my new inspiration - Kara Thrace, callsign "Starbuck", of the battlestar Galactica. She kicks ass and takes names. She screws stuff up, gets knocked on her ass, and gets back up again. There's something about her that makes you pull for her even when you know she's going down a long hard road and it's her own fault. She's my mental kickstart for this diet and new way of living I'm becoming accustomed to.





I have taken off enough weight now - a little more than ten pounds - that the new pairs of jeans that I bought to wear in Italy are now hanging around my hips. Pretty soon I will be able to take them off without unbuttoning them. I can see my ribcage emerging from the layers of softness I accumulated the past ten years. I can bend over and grab my feet again without a roll of fat making me feel like I can't breathe.





I have a ways to go, yet. My goal is not all about weight. I need to start training. Getting toned and fit again. I can't afford to go back to the gym, although that is where I need to be. So I am going to start by picking up my yoga training again, which I can do at home. With the weight of my body as resistance, I can tone my arms and abs and legs a good deal. I'm hoping that since our town is in the middle of building a brand new YMCA directly across from the gym I used to go to, either the new YMCA will have fantastic rates or the gym I used to go to will drop their rates to remain competitive... either way, it's going to take some time before the new gym is finished, so I need to stop whining about it and get going with my yoga practise.





As with every performance-oriented goal, it's nice to have a reward waiting at the end. I've decided that my gift to myself when I reach my college weight / fitness level is going to be a new pair of tactical boots. The ones I wear now are more than ten years old, and the leather is so worn that it's green instead of black. This reward fits my warrior soul, and will look great with the black BDU pants I'm also planning on acquiring.

Here are the bootsch:

I think my goal reward is pretty modest - only $64 - especially considering the one that Katee Sackhoff (the actress who plays Kara Thrace) got for herself...