{"id":682,"date":"2011-03-01T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:06:00","slug":"march-goals-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/ponder\/my-so-called-life\/march-goals-and-progress\/682\/","title":{"rendered":"March Goals and Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2011 Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sew one new thing a month \u2013 <em>Finished a fighting tunic for Fearghus and a gift for my family.  Pictures will be posted on my <a href=\"http:\/\/research.fibergeek.com\">project blog<\/a> once I know the family has it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Read a book a month &#8211; <em>Finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin.  It&#8217;s a bodice ripper masquerading as a literary classic.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cook my way through a cookbook &#8211; <em>No progress on this yet.  Still need to pick a cookbook out.  I&#8217;m intimidated by this.  I&#8217;m tempted to pick a small cookbook to make sure I can get through it.. but that feels like cheating.  Regardless I need to just do it and get on with it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Complete the <a href=\"http:\/\/c25k.com\">C25K<\/a> program &#8211; <em>I&#8217;m -still- in week 3. Again.  This is the third week in week 3.  It is getting better but I may do week 3 again.. it depends on how hard it feels at the end of the week.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pay off credit card debt \u2013 <em>Still waiting on tax return money for this.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pay off Debtors &#8211; <em>Same as above.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lose 30 lbs by May &#8211; <em>Working on this.. as of this morning I&#8217;m down 10.6 lbs for the year (I started at the year at 286.8 and end the month at 276.2).  I&#8217;m kind of pleased with that.  Assuming I don&#8217;t freak out and OD on everything I should be able to make my goal.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Continue with Weekly check ins on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/\">Results Typical<\/a>&#8221; blog. &#8211; <em>check<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Continue with Friday Fives on LiveJournal(cross posted from Results Typical) &#8211; <em>check<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>February Achievements:<\/h2>\n<p>Goal: Lose 10 lbs.<br \/>\nOutcome: I started the month at 285.0 and end the month at 276.2.  That&#8217;s a loss of 8.8 lbs for the month.  It&#8217;s not quite 10 lbs.. but I&#8217;ll take it and count it as a win.  At the moment I&#8217;m down 41.8 lbs since I started in August 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Cook at least 1 new recipe a week.<br \/>\nOutcome: I know a cooked a lot of new things this month.. but I failed to document all the new recipes and I can&#8217;t definitively state that I had a new recipe each week.  Must work on this.  Of the ones I did document, most of them were good.  New recipes this month: Ground Beef and Barley stew (win), Clean Beef Stroganoff (meh, not bad but not fantastic), Breakfast bites (win), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/2011\/02\/11\/spicy-oven-fried-chicken\/\">Spicy Oven Fried Chicken<\/a> (win), clean Mac&amp;Cheese (win.. but overate it).<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Continue with Ab-Divas *\/100 and do it daily. Keep doing it.<br \/>\nOutcome: As of this morning I&#8217;m at 59\/100.  I started doing Planks.. and found they&#8217;re a GREAT stretch for my right foot (the one that has the symptoms of plantar&#8217;s fasciitis).<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Do either treadmill or Kinect workout every work-day morning.<br \/>\nOutcome: Since getting the treadmill I haven&#8217;t gotten back to the Kinect.  I =have= been doing the treadmill almost every morning though.  At the moment there are still boxes in the way in the living room.  I hope to have those cleared out of the way by this weekend.  I&#8217;d still like to alternate the Kinect workout with the treadmill.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Stick to C25K. I should be able to complete week 4 by the end of the month.<br \/>\nOutcome: I&#8217;m still doing the C25K.. but I&#8217;m staying in week 3 until it feels easy.  At least I&#8217;m doing it.  I do feel accomplished in that it&#8217;s feeling easier to do it now than it was when I started.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Take the stairs at work at least once a day. (5th floor walk up)<br \/>\nOutcome: Every workday I take the stairs.  I&#8217;m still out of breath when I get them done.. but I think I&#8217;m less out of breath now then when I started.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Go to bed by NO later than 11:30pm. I need to stop dragging at the end of the day. It\u2019s just too draining. To do that I need more sleep.. and since my mornings are spoken for I need to reign in my evenings.<br \/>\nOutcome: WIN!  Although there were a few days when I was late to bed, for the most part I&#8217;ve gotten my sleep schedule back in hand.  I&#8217;m rarely dragging through the day.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Clean the kitchen floor and fridge.<br \/>\nOutcome: Fail.  I tried to pull the fridge out when Fearghus was out of town, but it&#8217;s just too heavy for me to move.  Without pulling the fridge out I can&#8217;t pull the drawers out and clean under them.  On the floor.. yeah.. I just didn&#8217;t do it.  Still on them radar though. I did clean out under the sink and got the new Compost bin setup.  That&#8217;s got to count for something.<\/p>\n<h2>March Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lose 10 lbs. <em>I like 10.  It&#8217;s a nice round number.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cook at least 1 new recipe a week. <em>Again, good thing to strive for. This forces me to stretch and try new recipes.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Continue with Ab-Divas *\/100 and do it daily. <em>Keep doing it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Do either treadmill or Kinect workout every work-day morning. <em>Keep on keeping on.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Continue with C25K. <em>Even if I&#8217;m -still- in week 3 at the end of the month I&#8217;ll view it as a win if I just stick to it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Take the stairs at work at least once a day. <em>Keep on.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Clean the kitchen floor and fridge. <em>I just need to get this done.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sew 1 new thing.<em>I think I have a few tunics on the docket.  Pennsic is coming.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Read 1 book.<em>Currently working on Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 Goals: Sew one new thing a month \u2013 Finished a fighting tunic for Fearghus and a gift for my family. Pictures will be posted on my project blog once I know the family has it. Read a book a month &#8211; Finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. It&#8217;s a bodice ripper masquerading as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":[],"wprm-recipe-roundup-description":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-so-called-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}