What are your fitness goals and what's your plan to attain them?

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6. Here are my goals for winter

This will see me through to about Spring:

1) Lose about 40-45 lbs through a combo of diet and exercise. I'm a petite woman who will be 50 in July. Unfortunately, I'm starting to resemble my grandmother in physique. I want to be a sexy, slim older lady with very little health problems.

2) Exercise:
Do rounds of HIIT in six-week spurts. I will be running/jogging/walking. I cannot afford gym or classes right now. All I have is outdoors and my tennis shoes. That will have to do. I've researched and researched and everything I've read says that HIIT is the best way to simply get rid fat, especially if you have it around the middle, which I do. I will also be doing housework and walking the puppy. Oh, and possibly going to culinary school if I can find the money. If not, summer school is in my future.

3) Eating
I bought a juicer in the fall and I experimented with it before the holidays. I intend to go at it full time during Jan and Feb. I think what I will do is perhaps juicing during the week and eating normal meals during the weekend. I will have to experiment and see how I feel. This is really about making veggies the center of my diet.

I will also get rid of food intolerances by not eating those foods. My problem foods are wheat and dairy. So, no bread, pancakes, or cheese or yogurt. Any fats I eat will be olive oil, nuts and nut oils, or oily fish.

I expect to lose a good deal of the weight that way. Anyway, I expect to be spending my time this way until Spring, then I will see where I am and reevaluate.