Mission Accomplished and New Goals

My first post . . . I think it was my first post . . . was about monthly goals.

I neglected to report on here at the beginning of this month that I actually ACCOMPLISHED my January Goal!!!!! Whaaaaaahooooooo!!!

I read the entire book, Master Your Metabolism Cookbook by Jillian Michaels, and I made a new snack every week. I learned a better way to make hard boiled eggs. I learned how to make hummus and homemade pita chips. I learned how to make this really delicious black bean dip. And I learned how to make a delicious banana almond smoothie. All of it was sooooo tasty and I feel darn good about myself! I not only met my goal . . . I exceeded it by trying some main dish recipes from the book as well. Feels good to accomplish a goal instead of accomplishing part of one or none of one like I normally do.

Now for FEBRUARY GOALS!

This month my goals are to
1) Make a new main dish and a new side dish each week from the book. So far so good. :)
2) Do at least 50 of some exercise 6 days a week (Mon - Sat). This means, 50 situps, 50 pushups, 50 Burpees, etc, etc.

I made this 2nd goal because for anyone who knows me you know I love to work out and have always been a bit obsessed with it. Well, sadly, that has gone by the wayside ever since we moved to the East. I think it is a bad combination of easy to find excuses such as: K is a terrible sleeper, I can't run outside because there is no safe time of day to go when J is here to watch the kids, I feel suffocated here, we have no money for a gym membership (which never stopped me before, but does now for some reason), etc, etc, etc.

Anyway, so I wanted to find a way to get back into it that I knew I could accomplish so that I wouldn't get discouraged. It used to just annoy me to work out and not feel sweaty and exhausted at the end. I like to see immediate results. I realized, however, that this is not realistic at this point. So, I decided to do something that is quick and gets my heart going . . . which is usually all I need to get myself to do more. It is the "getting started" that is hard for me lately.

I am happy to say that it is working. Often times I do my 50 push ups or sit ups and want to keep going . . . and I do. Or, I actually feel up to doing a good hard longer full workout and I do! It feels great!

Now . . . if I could just stop eating so much chocolate . . .