{"id":764,"date":"2011-03-31T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/?p=764"},"modified":"2011-03-31T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:29:19","slug":"april-goals-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/ponder\/my-so-called-life\/april-goals-and-progress\/764\/","title":{"rendered":"April Goals and Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2011 Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sew one new thing a month \u2013 <em>Hrm.. I totally fell down on the job on this this month.  I&#8217;ve been busy busy busy and haven&#8217;t sewn a dang thing.  The closest I got was doing some work to finish off the lapels and buttons on my wool coat.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Read a book a month &#8211; <em>Finished Tess of the D&#8217;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.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cook my way through a cookbook &#8211; <em>Maybe this wasn&#8217;t a good goal to set.  Honestly I&#8217;m cooking a lot of stuff.. but I just can&#8217;t see limiting myself to one cookbook.. or cooking all of the entries in that one cookbook.  I may drop this as a goal.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Complete the <a href=\"http:\/\/c25k.com\">C25K<\/a> program &#8211; <em>I -finally- moved on to week 4.  Honestely week 4 is feeling easier than week 3 ever did.  I think I&#8217;ll end up doing week 4 for two weeks and then move onto week 5.  Regardless, I&#8217;m making good progress on this.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pay off credit card debt \u2013 <em>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&#8217;s good to have my debt at a managable level.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pay off Debtors &#8211; <em>Almost done.  I still need to pay off one person.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lose 30 lbs by May &#8211; <em>Working on this.. as of this morning I&#8217;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&#8217;s looking like a close thing.<\/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>March Achievements:<\/h2>\n<p>Goal: Lose 10 lbs.<br \/>\nOutcome: I started the month at 276.2 and end the month at 272.6.  That&#8217;s a loss of 3.6 lbs for the month.  It&#8217;s actually fairly far off of 10&#8230; regardless I&#8217;ll take it and count it as a win.  At the moment I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Cook at least 1 new recipe a week.<br \/>\nOutcome: 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:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/2011\/03\/29\/venison-stew\/\">Venison Stew<\/a>(win), Jumbo Stuffed Shells(win), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chow.com\/recipes\/11095-black-forest-ham-and-caramelized-onion-grilled-cheese\">Black Forest Ham and Caramelized Onion Grilled Cheese<\/a>(win), Trout Amondine(win), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/2011\/03\/04\/50-kicker-chili\/\">$50 Kicker Chilli<\/a> (win)<\/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 89\/100.  Boo-ya!<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Do either treadmill or Kinect workout every work-day morning.<br \/>\nOutcome: I still haven&#8217;t done a Kinect workout since getting the treadmill.  I =have= been doing the treadmill almost every morning though.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Continue with C25K.<br \/>\nOutcome: I finally finished week 3 and moved on to week 4.  I&#8217;m buzzing along on this.  I do think I&#8217;ll repeat week 4 but I am loving the way this is making me feel.<\/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: Clean the kitchen floor and fridge.<br \/>\nOutcome: Fail.  Meh.  I must have some mental block about completing this.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Sew 1 new thing.<br \/>\nOutcome: Fail.  I have lots of plans.. and I&#8217;ve washed lots of fabric.. but I didn&#8217;t complete anything.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Read 1 book.<br \/>\nOutcome: I finished &#8220;Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles&#8221;.  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.<\/p>\n<h2>April 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.  When I finish.. start again.<\/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>I -will- do this.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Clean the kitchen floor and fridge. <em>I dunno.. I think I need to schedule an appointment with myself and just do it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sew at least 1 new thing.<em>Pennsic is coming.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Read 1 book.<em>Currently working on &#8220;Plan D, The Anti-Diet&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 Goals: Sew one new thing a month \u2013 Hrm.. I totally fell down on the job on this this month. I&#8217;ve been busy busy busy and haven&#8217;t sewn a dang thing. The closest I got was doing some work to finish off the lapels and buttons on my wool coat. 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