2011 Goals:
- Sew one new thing a month – Hrm.. I totally fell down on the job on this this month. I’ve been busy busy busy and haven’t sewn a dang thing. The closest I got was doing some work to finish off the lapels and buttons on my wool coat.
- Read a book a month – Finished Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Reading this took longer than expected. That said.. it was an interesting book. I spent most of the book trying to pinpoint the time period of the book.. and then the rest of the time trying to guess where the story was going. I got it totally wrong. The ending surprised and saddened me but honestly looking back over the book there was plenty of fore-shadowing.
- Cook my way through a cookbook – Maybe this wasn’t a good goal to set. Honestly I’m cooking a lot of stuff.. but I just can’t see limiting myself to one cookbook.. or cooking all of the entries in that one cookbook. I may drop this as a goal.
- Complete the C25K program – I -finally- moved on to week 4. Honestely week 4 is feeling easier than week 3 ever did. I think I’ll end up doing week 4 for two weeks and then move onto week 5. Regardless, I’m making good progress on this.
- Pay off credit card debt – DONE. Well initially done anyway. I paid off the balance on the card and then have been using it for groceries to keep a rolling balance on there. Still.. it’s good to have my debt at a managable level.
- Pay off Debtors – Almost done. I still need to pay off one person.
- Lose 30 lbs by May – Working on this.. as of this morning I’m down 14.2 lbs for the year (I started at the year at 286.8 and end the month at 272.6). If I can keep up momentum I should be able to hit this goal.. but it’s looking like a close thing.
- Continue with Weekly check ins on “Results Typical” blog. – check
- Continue with Friday Fives on LiveJournal(cross posted from Results Typical) – check
March Achievements:
Goal: Lose 10 lbs.
Outcome: I started the month at 276.2 and end the month at 272.6. That’s a loss of 3.6 lbs for the month. It’s actually fairly far off of 10… regardless I’ll take it and count it as a win. At the moment I’m down 45.4 lbs since I started in August 2010. That puts me at having lost 25% of the total weight I aim to lose.. it also marks my 15% of initial body weight loss.. and puts me at two times my goal weight. Nice number.
Goal: Cook at least 1 new recipe a week.
Outcome: I missed one week but made up for it by cooking 3 new things the next week. Of the ones I did document, most of them were good. New recipes this month:
Venison Stew(win), Jumbo Stuffed Shells(win), Black Forest Ham and Caramelized Onion Grilled Cheese(win), Trout Amondine(win), $50 Kicker Chilli (win)
Goal: Continue with Ab-Divas */100 and do it daily. Keep doing it.
Outcome: As of this morning I’m at 89/100. Boo-ya!
Goal: Do either treadmill or Kinect workout every work-day morning.
Outcome: I still haven’t done a Kinect workout since getting the treadmill. I =have= been doing the treadmill almost every morning though.
Goal: Continue with C25K.
Outcome: I finally finished week 3 and moved on to week 4. I’m buzzing along on this. I do think I’ll repeat week 4 but I am loving the way this is making me feel.
Goal: Take the stairs at work at least once a day. (5th floor walk up)
Outcome: Every workday I take the stairs. I’m still out of breath when I get them done.. but I think I’m less out of breath now then when I started.
Goal: Clean the kitchen floor and fridge.
Outcome: Fail. Meh. I must have some mental block about completing this.
Goal: Sew 1 new thing.
Outcome: Fail. I have lots of plans.. and I’ve washed lots of fabric.. but I didn’t complete anything.
Goal: Read 1 book.
Outcome: I finished “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”. Reading this took longer than expected. That said.. it was an interesting book. I spent most of the book trying to pinpoint the time period of the book.. and then the rest of the time trying to guess where the story was going. I got it totally wrong. The ending surprised and saddened me but honestly looking back over the book there was plenty of foreshadowing.
April Goals:
- Lose 10 lbs. I like 10. It’s a nice round number.
- Cook at least 1 new recipe a week. Again, good thing to strive for. This forces me to stretch and try new recipes.
- Continue with Ab-Divas */100 and do it daily. Keep doing it. When I finish.. start again.
- Do either treadmill or Kinect workout every work-day morning. Keep on keeping on.
- Continue with C25K. I -will- do this.
- Clean the kitchen floor and fridge. I dunno.. I think I need to schedule an appointment with myself and just do it.
- Sew at least 1 new thing.Pennsic is coming.
- Read 1 book.Currently working on “Plan D, The Anti-Diet”