Milestone- down over 25lbs

I'm officially down over 25lbs as of this morning. I was 237.4 this morning, the least I have been since starting my journey down and the least since about two years ago (man, it kills me to type that, I danced in the mid 240's for almost a year, telling myself that since I was "fast" on the bike the 240's were just fine for me) I had myself convinced that my body was just there at 240, 243, 245, 248, 250, 253, 255, 259, etc due to a random bump in weight, and that as long as I kept biking I'd come back down.

Let me tell you all, that's a cop out. It's every bit as much of a cop out as the hundreds of excuses we as a lazy society make for not working out. It's bs, and even when we're selling it to ourselves, I don't think we're really buying it. I know I wasn't. It sounded good, but I know that in my mind I really was aware I was backsliding, and badly. Had I kept going I have no doubt I'd be the 300lb guy who still bikes to work. I don't want to be that guy, I want to be the 190lb guy who runs at lunch, competes every year in multiple runs, tri's and maybe even an honest to goodness bike race sometime. I want to push myself so that I don't have the option of ending up on the wrong side of 240 again. I have found that when I lack goals, I lack focus, and when I lack focus, I find excuses. I have some pretty interesting goals for this year-

Complete a 5k in under 30 min.
Complete a sprint duathlon (not sure on time here yet)
Complete my first triathlon (sprint)
Complete my first Olympic Triathlon

From there, I am forming up next years goals in my mind already-

I'd like to do a 1/2 marathon
I'd like to do another olympic tri, as well as a sprint again
and I'd like to train for a 1/2 iron.

The following is the ultimate goal-

Reward completion of the 1/2 iron with a nice tri specific carbon bike (built up by myself of course, I love building bikes)

And with said bike, compete, before age 45, in my first Ironman. And win it.

Ok ok, I know I'm most likely not going to win it. I will however finish it, and that will be a win for me.

So, there they are, in print on the blog that only I read (I'll have to make sure I work on that too, have to have someone holding me accountable huh?)

F2PH