Weekly Results: Goals and the process

Weekly Results: Goals

• Lost 3.2 pounds this week (Total lost so far: 46.8 pounds)
• Gluten free, meat free, made an awesome garbanzo bean cake so not totally sugar free…

Thoughts:

I mentioned that I extended my stay in Utah just to give the snow on top of Timpanogos time to melt. On my last night in Utah I was grumpy and complaining about it little bit to my dad. I told him about all of the hours on the treadmill walking on a huge incline, all of the stadium steps that I ran, all of the careful planning and visualization exercises, etc. I told him that I felt cheated.

He laughed at me as I sulked a little bit. He pointed out that it had not been wasted effort. I had gotten in shape after all and that it wasn’t like I hadn’t done several awesome hikes. I would not have been in shape for those other hikes if I had not been prepared for Timpanogos. He was of course right.

I realized though that there is power in pushing towards specific things. There is power in making plans and building dreams. We gain a lot from the process even if we never end up where we think we are going. I know that I am strong enough to climb Timpanogos even if it did not get to happen this year.

Perhaps next year I will get the required training to hike in snowy conditions and then it won't matter how much snow is up there... I will get to go anyway.