2011 Goals:
- Sew one new thing a month – I’ve totally rebounded after last month’s stunning failure at this goal. This month I completed a multitude of projects. I finished a rust-brown hood for me, I finally put the finishing touches on F’s new olive green fighting tunic. I finished off Her Highness of the Mists Purple tunic, my green tunic, and my new black hood. So yeah! Totally nailed it!
- Read a book a month – Finished “Plan-D: The Amazing Anti-Diet That Will Change Your Life Forever”. It was very disappointing. I do not recommend it.
- Cook my way through a cookbook – Yeah, no progress. I’m dropping this as a goal and replacing it with a new goal: Join the Saluminati and make at least one Bresola and one preserved sausage. Plans are in the works.
- Complete the C25K program – I’m still in week 4 but it’s feeling pretty good. I’ll see how I feel on Friday.. but I’m tempted to move on to week 5 next week.
- Pay off credit card debt – DONE and done. I’m using my credit card to buy groceries and I’m committed to paying it off each Monday. This has the benefit of bumping my credit score, by having something on credit.. and it give me 2% off all grocery purchases in the form of a cash-back from the credit card company.
- 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 19.2 lbs for the year (I started at the year at 286.8 and end the month at 267.6). I didn’t hit my goal.. but I made a damn fine effort of it. I may be able to hit my goal by the end of May.
- Continue with Weekly check ins on “Results Typical” blog. – check
- Continue with Friday Fives on LiveJournal(cross posted from Results Typical) – check
April Achievements:
Goal: Lose 10 lbs.
Outcome: I started the month at 272.6 and end the month at 267.6. That’s a loss of 5 lbs for the month. Again it’s not 10 lbs.. but I’ll take it and count it as a win. At the moment I’m down 50.4 lbs since I started in August 2010.
Goal: Cook at least 1 new recipe a week.
Outcome: I totally nailed this goal this month. New recipes this month: Chicken Amondine(win), Chicken Coconut Curry (win), Parmesan Crusted Steak (win), Fennel and Shallots with Pesto (win), Chocolate Granola (win but needs tinkering).
Goal: Continue with Ab-Divas */100 and do it daily. Keep doing it.
Outcome: I finished Ab Divas. I think I’m going to start it again.
Goal: Do either treadmill or Kinect workout every work-day morning.
Outcome: I’ve been doing the treadmill almost every morning. Totally loving it!
Goal: Continue with C25K.
Outcome: I am firmly in week 4 and thinking I may move onto week 5 next week.
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: Total win. I knocked it out of the park this month.
Goal: Read 1 book.
Outcome: Finished “Plan-D: The Amazing Anti-Diet That Will Change Your Life Forever”. It was not great and my life is not changed forever. I was terribly underwhelmed by this book. The books premise is that ony by elminating sugar and gluten you can live a healthy life. I appreciate the sentiment.. but aside from vague assurances that it was “good for me” and a bunch of mumbo-jumbo metaphysical crap.. it really had no basis. I was very disappointed.
May 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.
- Restart with Ab-Divas */100 and do it daily. 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.. maybe it just -wants- to be dirty.
- Sew at least 1 new thing.Nate’s wedding and Pennsic is coming.
- Read 1 book.Hmm I’ll need to figure out which book to designate as this month’s book.