Plan Formulation and Execution
Since high school, my weight has been a struggle in my life, and in the past few years there have been attempts to begin losing. Most had failed. One major change that has been proven a major success occurred in January 2010, when I gave up drinking sodas and other drinks filled with Sugar while on a flight home from a trip to Lake Tahoe for 4-H. At the time I quite drinking sodas, I weighted 265 pounds. After giving up sodas, I knew I had to become more active. In October 2010, I began walking 2.4 miles three times a week. By time January 2011 came around, I was walking 3.0 miles almost every day of the week (excluding weekends). Around April 2011, I had lost track and stopped walking. In June, I began walking again three times a week, but kept losing track and not walking. In August 2011, I went camping with two best friends in the Eastern Sierras. In a 4 day period, we had hiked about 10-12 miles. As I returned home from the trip, I needed a break from all the activi