{"id":830,"date":"2011-05-05T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-05-05T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:24:11","slug":"may-goals-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/ponder\/my-so-called-life\/may-goals-and-progress\/830\/","title":{"rendered":"May Goals and Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2011 Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sew one new thing a month \u2013 <em>I&#8217;ve totally rebounded after last month&#8217;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&#8217;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!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Read a book a month &#8211; <em>Finished &#8220;Plan-D: The Amazing Anti-Diet That Will Change Your Life Forever&#8221;.  It was very disappointing.  I do not recommend it. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cook my way through a cookbook &#8211; <em>Yeah, no progress.  I&#8217;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.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Complete the <a href=\"http:\/\/c25k.com\">C25K<\/a> program &#8211; <em>I&#8217;m still in week 4 but it&#8217;s feeling pretty good.  I&#8217;ll see how I feel on Friday.. but I&#8217;m tempted to move on to week 5 next week.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pay off credit card debt \u2013 <em>DONE and done.  I&#8217;m using my credit card to buy groceries and I&#8217;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.<\/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 19.2 lbs for the year (I started at the year at 286.8 and end the month at 267.6).  I didn&#8217;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.<\/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>April Achievements:<\/h2>\n<p>Goal: Lose 10 lbs.<br \/>\nOutcome: I started the month at 272.6 and end the month at 267.6.  That&#8217;s a loss of 5 lbs for the month.  Again it&#8217;s not 10 lbs.. but I&#8217;ll take it and count it as a win.  At the moment I&#8217;m down 50.4 lbs since I started in August 2010.  <\/p>\n<p>Goal: Cook at least 1 new recipe a week.<br \/>\nOutcome: I totally nailed this goal this month.  New recipes this month: Chicken Amondine(win), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/2011\/04\/06\/chicken-coconut-curry\/\">Chicken Coconut Curry<\/a> (win), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingchanneltv.com\/recipes\/michael-chiarello\/prime-rib-eye-steaks-with-mustard-parmesan-crust-recipe4\/index.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Parmesan Crusted Steak<\/a> (win), Fennel and Shallots with Pesto (win), Chocolate Granola (win but needs tinkering).<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Continue with Ab-Divas *\/100 and do it daily. Keep doing it.<br \/>\nOutcome: I finished Ab Divas.  I think I&#8217;m going to start it again.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Do either treadmill or Kinect workout every work-day morning.<br \/>\nOutcome: I&#8217;ve been doing the treadmill almost every morning.  Totally loving it!<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Continue with C25K.<br \/>\nOutcome: I am firmly in week 4 and thinking I may move onto week 5 next week.<\/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: Total win.  I knocked it out of the park this month.<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Read 1 book.<br \/>\nOutcome: Finished &#8220;Plan-D: The Amazing Anti-Diet That Will Change Your Life Forever&#8221;.  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 &#8220;good for me&#8221; and a bunch of mumbo-jumbo metaphysical crap.. it really had no basis.  I was very disappointed.<\/p>\n<h2>May 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>Restart with Ab-Divas *\/100 and do it daily. <em>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.. maybe it just -wants- to be dirty.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sew at least 1 new thing.<em>Nate&#8217;s wedding and Pennsic is coming.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Read 1 book.<em>Hmm I&#8217;ll need to figure out which book to designate as this month&#8217;s book.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 Goals: Sew one new thing a month \u2013 I&#8217;ve totally rebounded after last month&#8217;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&#8217;s new olive green fighting tunic. 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