2012

2012 Goals:

Fitness

• strength train 2x/week
• Cardio 2x/week
• Walk the Dog 3x week

Nutrition

• Fast food no more than 1x/month
• Avoid white food as much as possible; substitute sweet potatoes for white, brown rice for white, 100% whole wheat for white bread
• eat to 80% full

Home Organization/Cleaning

• Deep clean one room once a month - baseboard, fans, vents, dust, vaccuum, throw/donate
• Do one fun/creative beautification/non-function project a month

Personal

• Once a month, go out and run errands by myself on Saturday afternoon
• Go to the High Museum
• Cook one new recipe a month

January specific:
1.  I'm going to ease back in with some light strength training, focusing mostly on core for 2-4 weeks.  I think last time, I went too fast too quickly; the primary muscles I was trying to work were fine, my core couldn't keep up, leading to the back pain.
2.  For two weeks, I'm just going to walk.  After that, I'll start incorporating some interval training, but probably not running; I think I need to get some weight off before I start running again.  So biking maybe?
3.  Since we're getting back fairly early on Monday, I can go to the grocery store and load up. 
4.  I'm going to start with the guest room to deep clean.  I need to get put the Christmas decorations back in there. 
5.  Maybe tackle the gossip bench that's been sitting there for two years?
6.  Hmm, maybe my thing to cook this month should be something with those brown bananas...

New Year's Resolution: Change

I'm not usually big on New Year's resolutions, but I think it's a nice idea.  This year, I don't want to set goals as much as embrace the idea of being more pro-active in changing my life.  I'm going to focus less on results and more on the process. 
1.  Excercise more.  Not "lose weight," "wear a size 8," or "hit 140."  Yes, I would like to do all those things, but really, I just need to focus on the doing, not the goal.
2.  Let go of dinner.  Since Hubs will be doing his student teaching this spring, he'll be getting off work around 3.  So it makes sense for him to cook dinner.  Every night.  I do wish that he would cook a little healthier and with more vegetables, but I need to realize that this is something I need to just let go of.  It makes no sense for me to try and cook dinner or force him to cook dishes he doesn't like.  I can make a better effort to supplement his meals with more vegetables though.
3.  Bring nutritious, healthy lunches.  Here, I have almost complete control.  And with a little planning ahead, I can have really good lunches.  I just need to plan and cook ahead.  I think half veg, quarter protein, quarter whole grain is a good framework.
4.  Drink less or not at all.  Really, it does me no good.
5.  Go to church.  I would really like to have faith, but that's sort of an end goal thing too.  Right now all I'm challenging myself to just get my rear end in the door and take from it what I can and leave what I can't. 
6.  Be kinder.  To myself, to Hubs, the kids, everyone.  Only good can come from that.
7.  Put myself out there.  Ugh.  This is really going to be uncomfortable.  I never make the effort with other people, whether that be inviting new people to do stuff, or remembering birthdays.  This one might actually be better served it I put a specific goals here.  So, I will have a party or some other social function this year (yikes.  And kids birthday's don't count) and I will send birthday cards to all (my) family and friends. 

I wrote this list a couple of days ago, thinking I'd come up with more things.  But I realize now that seven is a pretty long list, especially since some of these are pretty large goals. 

But I'm happy to say that I'm already doing well on no. 7.  We were invited to a NYE party and had a great time.  And the next day, we ended up watching football with almost the same group.  So yay, we might actually have friends now. 

I'm going to try to write at the first of the month about how I'm doing on each of these goals.