WHERE Do you see yourself in 5 yrs time on your journey???? Be honest….
I’m fast approaching my 5 yr anniversary of the first day of my journey. I can’t believe the number! The closer it gets the more anxious I become.
Why? Because I feel like I’ve come far but I still need to address so many other issues.
Well, aside from me, I would like to know, where do each of my buddyslimmers see themselves in 5 yrs time?
1. Met “Ultimate” goal with weight and health
2. Almost there
3. Still struggling and maintaining
4. No where near goal
5. Heavier and bigger then the day you started
6. Other…………can’t think of more LOL
Sometimes we get caught up in the daily grind and focus on the small stuff. I do that all the time. Before I know it months past, and a few yrs passed. I’m like, where did all this time go?
Honestly, 5 yrs ago I just knew I wanted to be hot at 30 yrs old. Oh my when I was in my 20’s, 30 is downhill for youth you know!! LOL If only I knew. It gets better. I’m younger and better then I was in all my 20’s. 
Think about your goals, think about how you are going to meet them.
Baby steps…..leads to big steps…leads to days, months and years. REMEMBER ONLY 1 IN 5 LOSES WEIGHT AND KEEPS IT OFF FOR MORE THEN 5 YRS!
I want to see you at your best in 5 yrs and longer. It starts - TODAY!
I better get ready with the food eating so I can go to kickboxing in a couple hours.
Hi thank you for your response and adding me as your buddy accept i cant figure out how to add you it only shows check all or delete so could you please add me on your end and congradulations on your weight loss success your pictures were and are beautiful
Well, actually, my journey is twofold. One to lose weight. My main goal was to lose 50 pounds (I started at 218) and I thought I would never ever be able to lose 50 pounds. I started 5/4/09 so I gave myself until 6/1/10 to reach the 50. I am at 30 now, can you believe it, I sure can’t. The second reason for my journey in joining a gym and starting a weight loss program is my mother as fibromyalgia and it seems I am starting to get some symptoms of it. Now if I do have it, it will take years to diagnose. But regular exercise helps, so I figure why not start now. My mother is in great pain and is limited in what she can do. I cannot be like that, I have a special needs 18 year old that I need to take care of, so I cannot have limitations on what I can and can’t do because of pain. So in 5 years I will be 42 and I predict I will be one hot, rocking 42 year old! Hopefully with boundless energy. Maybe even lighter than the 168 goal I set for myself when I started my journey. I’m thinking I could possibly pull off 158. But I defiantly want to keep exercising at least 3 to 4 times a week after I meet my goal to keep the heart healthy.
Hate to think I still have a journey at that time. I want to be at goal. Period.
LOVE YOUR BLOG. I KNOW IN 5 YEARS I WIL BE AT MY GOAL WEIGHT. I HOPE TO BE IN A REGULAR WORKOUT PLAN AT THAT TIME AND THAT IS IS NOT STILL A STRUGGLE IN FIVE YEARS I WILL BE OH WOW 42 NOT SURE IF I LIKE THAT !!!
well I see myself a better runner, fitter, sexier and more knowledgable.. yep I am not giving up, not oging to stop.. when i am 41 i will have run a marathon and raced in a triathlon..
I will never go back to the sluggish me. no way..
Five years from now….. let’s see, I’ll be nearing 75 years old! EEK! I sure don’t feel that old. I see myself as being at goal, healthier than ever and still loving life, my sweetheart, best friend and husband John, (yes, all the same guy) my water aerobics classes and choir…and of course my buddies here. (we’ll still be buddies, right?
In five years I will have been at my goal for several years. (I’m not going to let it take me that long) I plan on change jobs by then. All my children will have graduated from high school and I will be ready to seek new adventures. (My husband will need to jump on board because I see the world as new opportunities then)
In five years, I see myself at my goal weight and chasing around my granddaughter
I see myself having all the energy I have lacked before. I see myself finally content with who I am & how I look. 
I have to be honest and say I do have a fear that I will be doing what Ive done for all these years…losing and regaining…BUT…BUTT…heehee…I want to make permanant loss my reality…and that is why Im back here…gonna fight it…thanks for this blog!
Five years from now, I hope to at my goal weight and happily maintaining it. Great Post!
I will see myself at my goal, and maintaining. I will be more confident and ready for what life brings.
BTW you are one hot 32 yr old.
I’ve actually spent time doing positive visualization around this, and I picture myself as having fully incorporated health and vitality as part of my everyday life…love the post!
Five years from now I see myself dropping off my son at the bus stop for his first day of school crying my eyes out. Healthwise… I see myself more active than I am now for the simple fact that my son will always be on the go and that will keep me going as well. I want to continue expanding my cooking light skills and working out daily and hopefully maintaining the weight I intend to lose and that I already have. Great blog Nancy and congratulations on just how far you have come. You have so much to be proud of!
I see myself with at least 1 kid and working on maintaining my healthy weight
I can never ever go back, I already made up my mind.
In 5 years I plan to not only have met my goal but to be maintaining the loss and lifestyle changes. I’ve got to be in shape so I can play tag with my daughter who will be 7 years old then.
In five years I plan on being at my goal weight and continuing to maintain it! I have been on my journey for three years now! So although I haven’t yet, met my goal I am still here and continuing to learn more each day from all of my wonderful buddies!
HUGS!
Oh, yeah I will still be here on BS because without it and all of my wonderful buddies I wouldn’t have come as far as I have!!
I love the blog!! Five years from now I will be very close to 30 so I plan to have another child with a great body, working out and eating properly will be habitual. I also plan to have met my goal with owning property and married with a master’s degree ;)…..I think im going make a board with my five year plans to keep me motivated because typing this really gave me determination.
In 5 years I want to be….you! Not in a creepy way! But I am sure I will be smaller and fitter. By then I want to have found a real gym, learn how to use machines, free weights and things like the BOSU ball. I want to be confident and attend fitness classes and try new things like Zumba, a real kickboxing and Pilates class and even yoga. I think if someone is there to guide me and observe what I am doing, that I will be able to do things like yoga better than what I can do at home.
I also want to be like you in that you try all types of different foods. One day at a discount store I even saw a steamer and I know you use one of those. So…I would like to try to use things like that to make sure my foods don’t lose their nutritional value.
Honestly? In 5 years I want to be at goal. And fitter and healthier. I want to be one of those fit “over 50″ women.
I want to live in a better apt.
And be in a successful relationship.
Five years wow, I dont see it yet but what I want is to be working off baby fat having already maintained my goal weight & healthier lifestyle for a few years. Im 36 but I still want another baby, so hopefully I’ll be married and either having a new baby or like I said working off baby fat from just having one. I never wanted my child to be an only child.
Now if we talking outside of my weight loss journey this would turn into a book! LOL.
5 years from now, I’ll be 32 (sound familiar? lol) and I’m hoping to be SEXIER in my 30s than I was in my 20s!
And you know, my husband is younger than me, so I hope I continue to have people be surprised by that when they look at us. :p haha
My goal is to continue to improve with my running, and hopefully by then I will have either finished a 1/2 or full marathon, or be training for one.
Of course, there are the tummy tuck and fake boob issues too.
~I’m down to a FREAKING 30B at this point, and hubby is NOT happy about it~ lmao Hopefully, I will either have those body issues resolved and not WANT the surgery, OR come to terms with it and gone ahead with the surgery. (Basically, I just want to be happy with my body one way or another; I’m not a fortune teller so I don’t know exactly how that’s gonna come to be!)
My parents just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary, and I’m hoping to be on track towards that with my marriage.
I certainly put in my share of the work on a daily basis; I’m not leaving it up to chance, but still… you never know!
Hmmmm…. I also hope that I have my body in good enough shape that I can be the type of inspiration for people that you are here, Nancy.
You’re doing AWESOME!
(love the blog!)
Great blog post (but what else would I expect from you? hehe :)). I see myself achieving my weight loss goal and keeping it off. But also, I don’t have children yet (I’m 32). Martin and I plan to have a child when he finishes school (he is going back this fall for 3 yrs). So I’ll have a baby (hopefully) by time I’m 35. Anyways, my point is that I know I’ll put on weight, so I’ll have yet another weight loss journey once I have a child. Did all of that make sense? hehe.
You’re such an inspiration, missy!!! Loves ya!
(p.s. you’re hot!!!!)
Well Nancy, that’s a good question. In 5 years I will be 27 (almost 28) and hopefully married, with one child, pregnant, or preparing for a baby. I will be fit, strong, happy, and at my goal weight/shape. I will be in great health. I will be back to running miles a day. I will have gotten a bike to ride often and a pass to swim a few times a week. My newer ‘hobbies’ will all revolve around something physical. : )
you know damn well ill be at my goal weight within the next year!! five years… who knows!!
ha in five years hopefully ill be a little bigger ……but only because that would be a great age for me to be startin a family!!!!!!! so id have a baby in me!
WELL IN 5 YRS i PRAY I WOULD OF WON THE BATTLE
BUT CONTINUE BEING AND STAYING HEALTHY CAUSE MAINTAINENCE IS GOING TO BE HARD SO I WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE .
I WANT TO ALREADY BE DELIVERING MY FIRST COUPLES BABY OR AT LEAST HAVE A FEW UNDER MY BELT AS A MIDWIFE.
ENJOY MY 25 YR ANNIVERSARY WITH HUBBIE
WE BEEN TOGETHER FOR THAT LONG BUT BE CELBRATIGN OUR 10 YR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
CELBRATES MY OLDEST HIGHSCHOOL GRADUATION
AND MY NOW 3 YR OLD SON WOULD BE CLEAR OF HIS KIDNEY ISSUES
I WANT MY FAMILY TO BE HEALTHY THAT ALL I LOOK FORWARD TO IN LIFE . AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST BE ATA POINT WHERE IM COMPLETELY ONE WITH GOD
I MEAN REALLY INTO HIM LIKE I SHOULD BE
RATHER BETTER THAN I AM NOW .
AND PRAY ALL MY FRIENDS GOT WHAT THEY WANT AS WELL
OOPS YOU SAID JOURNEY LOL WELL I THINK ALL FO THOSE TTHINGS ARE MY JOURNIES IN LIFE
Well, I aim to be at goal and maintaining in 5 years. I need to do this for my health. I am obese and it is causing problems. I mean….I’m 28 and I have a blood clot? Obesity is one of the risk factors for those. So, aside from the health issues…I also just want to be able to say that I did it!
Wow, this makes me think. I hope to be fit, healthy, happy, and confident. I have some big dreams.
I also plan to be living in North Carolina and finally have finished my bachelor’s degree.