No Diet Diet: Days 6&7

The task for day 6 is to make a list of what I would like to achieve by this time next year. Since this blog is about fitness I have made that the focus of my goals, which I have divided into four areas.
General: By this time next year I would like to weigh 66kg. This is an arbitrary number but it serves to give the weight loss component of my plan an attainable, if slightly challenging, end point. I will reach this goal by eliminating the diet mentality and reconnecting with my body’s physical hunger signals.
Cardio: I want to be able to run 5km in 30 minutes. I currently jog about 3km in half an hour. I will achieve this goal by increasing my distance until I am jogging for 5km then work on improving my speed. I will jog/run at least 3 days per week and cardio cross train at least 2 days per week.
Flexibility: I want to be able to do the splits again, something I could manage four years ago, and from a seated position bend forward and reach past my feet to at least my wrists. I will attain this by reintroducing daily stretching.
Abdominal strength: I want to reduce my waist measurement to 80cm as currently recommended by health professionals. I will achieve this by performing targeted abdominal work at least twice a week.

The task for day 7 was to do a good deed for somebody that could change their life a little for the better. This is the one task I simply didn’t have the opportunity to do. As a wife and mother I spend every day making sure that other people’s lives run as smoothly as they can. While I continued to do all the things I would normally do the occasion simply didn’t arise for me to do a little more (which tells me I’m probably doing too much already).
In spite of this minor setback, according to the quiz at the end of the chapter, I have achieved enough to progress on to phase 2 of the no diet diet.
Weigh in tomorrow. Supposedly my efforts this last week will have lead to the loss of between a half and one kilogram. Honestly I can’t imagine how that could be, but we’ll see.