Today, I want to share a personal goal with you in hopes to inspire you to create your own personal and achievable goals. I’ll share my thoughts via this blog in what I hope to gain through this personal goal.

I have always believed that I was fairly healthy after I stopped smoking and eating meat but that wasn’t the case. I still drink socially (sometimes excessively) and I sometimes eat what I call ‘processed healthy foods’. I’m not unhealthy but I know that I could look and feel better. Knowing this, I decided to set a goal to become the healthiest I have ever been in my life by the time I reach 50 – that gives me 4 years.

I have made a commitment to juice more, eat more healthier plant-based foods and decrease my intake of alcohol. In the past 5 months, I have gone to the gym at least 3 times per week. Now that my membership has finished, I have decided to enjoy a more holistic workout by jogging outside, doing weights at home and other strength training exercises without being obligated to a gym.

The last 4 days of jogging haven’t been easy – I am so used to cardio training on an elliptical machine and not the rough terrain of country roads. The first day was hard, my breathing issues kicked in and I had to walk have of my route. The second day wasn’t as hard and I managed to jog most of the 5.3 kilometres. The third day was okay and today’s jog was okay. I completed my 5.3 kilometres in 38.13 minutes – that’s a pace of about 7:15 minutes per kilometre. It’s hard but I enjoy it because I know results can’t come without hard work.

Here are some photos of my jogging route (which makes it much more enjoyable):