My New Years was relatively quiet. The BF and I stayed home, watched movies, made a great lobster dinner and spend the evening drinking and eating crappy food. I know that is not the greatest way to start the year and when you have goals of loosing weight its definitely not the best way to spend New Years Day just hanging around in our underwear being couch potatoes and watching movies but its all good. We just had a day and a night of doing nothing and eating and drinking what we wanted.
As for resolutions.. I generally don't make resolutions.. they never work and I never started them on Jan 1 anyway. For me they definitely don't work. I have goals.. Goals for me are more achievable and if done right can be done. As you can see from my previous post I have my goals for 2013 (Click here to see again) but I do have far more goals then what is listed. Basically I wrote down all the goals and things I want to do ever in my life. No matter how small or big.. not matter what the cost was or the limitations I just emptied my head onto some paper and wrote down everything I wanted to do and/or achieve. I then picked the 13 I want to do this year for sure.. Hey I may want to add more from my goal list as time goes on but for now I have what I want to achieve for this year, and my goals this year may also change depending on circumstances. Of course I can always add things onto my initial goal list.. its more like a master list.
So I have decided to instead of writing out goals for the month I would take a goal from my list and break it down as to make it the best way to achieve. Like a plan to reach that goal before December 31, 2013.
So for January I am picking one goal to work on (for now)... Loose 30 pounds
Although I am going to change that slightly to loose 50 pounds. I weighed myself the other day and I weight *gulp* 249 pounds. I weighed myself using the WII-fit so I am not sure how accurate that is but its something to start on and work towards right. So my goal is to be under 200 pounds but the end of this year. To achieve this I need to loose about 5 pounds per month. So that's my goal 5 pounds per month. So achieve this I need to chuck out the junk food in my life, eat more healthy food and exercise more. I have been slacking more and more at the end of the year came around and I know I can do this as I have done it before.. I KNOW I can do it again. So I need to get back into the gym (which I am going to do with a friend of mine), get back into walking again (good use of the lunch time hour). cut back on junk food (main culprit is pop) and eat more healthy.
So for right now I am going to do the following (or at least strive to do this)
- Get up earlier and eat breakfast
- Go to the gym with my friend at least twice a week Prepare for the week ahead, especially when things get busy with the theatre group and plan meals in advance.
- Cook more healthy meal (thinking of doing two weeks where every night I cook a dish I haven't done before)
- Drink more water and cut down on pop
- Sleep more by getting regular sleep pattern
So all I need is a reward. Something to keep me motivated to keep going. If I achieve this goal and loose 5 pounds for the month of January I will buy myself Resident Evil 3 on DVD. That's a pretty good reward don't you think (well for me it is LOL)
Ok so I have my goals for Jan.. and GO!!