1. Dress up more on the weekends and when I am at home. It's so easy to throw on a sweatshirt and yoga pants to do anything and everything on the weekends. I have really been trying to make an effort to dress up for dinners out with the family and to look a bit nicer in general when I go out in public. I have continued my goal of doing my hair and putting on makeup more often so the next step is my clothes. :-)
RESULT: I did a pretty good job. I have upgraded my wardrobe more and don't wear yoga pants EVERY day on the weekends. :-)
2. Continue to send paper cards to friends for their birthdays. This has been a goal for the past couple of years and I have kept it up. I know how much I love receiving mail and think that my friends would too (I do get thank yous from friends every year. They are also amazed that I remember- well, generally I don't but I use a free website called birthday-reminders.com. I input birthdays and I get an email 7 days beforehand which gives me time to buy a card and send it! (If I was smart I would buy all the cards for a year ahead of time but I like to personalize the card for each friend.)
RESULT: Success! I think that I only missed one card this year and I took Lacey's suggestion of stocking up on cards ahead of time so that I didn't have to run out for a card every time I had a birthday coming up.
3. The usual lose weight goal. I'm back at 208 but really want to be at 190 by the end of the year. I've got to do better about eating healthy- especially while I am still BF so that I can burn the extra calories!
RESULT: Big fat fail. I'm now more like 220 so now I have even more weight to lose this year. :-(
4. Part of that weight goal will include working on being more active. Right now during the week I am going from 5am to about 8:30pm (depending on when the kids get to bed). I'm not sure I have it in me to wake up before 5am to exercise. I do take Buster on walks three days a week (Sat, Sun, and my telework day), but my body is itching for MORE and HARDER exercise. This goal will get easier once I am no longer breastfeeding as I will get that time back. For now, I would like my goal to be to work out 4 days a week.
RESULT: Mixed. Starting in May I would wake up at 5am to work out a few times a week. I was doing great with running until I left for TX in November and have since fallen off the wagon. So for about half the year I was getting up early to exercise.
5. Spend more quality time with CP. I would love if we could take a trip, or even just stay overnight in downtown Chicago, just the two of us later this year. We try hard to have one date night every month- thank goodness my mom is willing and able to babysit!
RESULT: Success! CP and I got away for a weekend around his birthday to eat meals without the kids and to see Hamilton. It was really nice!
6. Breastfeed Wes *at least* as long as I breastfed Izzy. I don't think that this one will be too hard. Wes is now 6 months old and I made it 7.5 months before Izzy decided she no longer wanted to nurse....so I don't have that long to go. Best case scenario I breastfeed until the end of winter. I would be okay with mostly formula feeding and then maybe nursing in the morning and at night as he gets closer to the age of 1.
RESULT: Success! I was able to breastfeed Wes longer than I breastfed Izzy although my body stopped producing milk before I was ready to stop.
7. Run in at least two races this year. I don't care the distance, but participating in races makes me more accountable with my running!
RESULT: Success! I ran in 4 races this year- three 5Ks and one 15K. I ran a total of 171.24 miles this year in 9 out of the 12 months of the year. My biggest month was October when I ran 37.68 miles (also the month that I ran the 15K).
I'm still mulling over my 2018 goals. What is your #1 2018 goal?
5 comments:
You did pretty well! I love that you send real cards.
I am having trouble articulating my main 2018 goal in a way that is SMART. Right now it is all too vague (of the "be less stressed" ilk).
The kids look so big (in your cover picture)- they are both adorable. No goals here really but I would like to loose some weight and tone up before summer. Hoping 2018 is a great year for you guys!
It looks like you did a great job on many of your goals! I feel like this time of year is the worst for exercise routines. I was doing really well, too, with going to the gym and having a regular schedule, and then I got sick around Thanksgiving and it's just all gone downhill since then. :( But my goodness, all the races and setting up a new goal and going away with your husband and dressing up a bit more...those are all great! And the cards, too. I love a good paper card myself, and I would hate to see them go away with everything digitized. That's great that you send them, and I bet your friends really appreciate them, more than they say. Happy New Year!
Oh, and my goal is sort of a combo Just Say No and Make Time For Priority Stuff goal. I tend to be a pleaser and say yes to lots of things even when I don't feel like doing them, and sometimes that's good and pushes me in a good way, and other times it leaves me feeling drained and frustrated that I don't have as much time to do things that I really want to spend more time doing. Seems doable, right?
You did great! Especially getting up early to work out! I hear you on the weight loss. Ironically, I weigh more now than when I had Olivia. Oy.
My main goal is doubling my income writing. I didn't really make a personal goal except to maybe use my bullet journal daily.
I love that you go back and list your results! You did great! I've never been much into making New Year's resolutions, but you kind of make me want to! lol. I love the idea of sending out actual birthday cards. I might need to start doing that. Looking up the birthday reminder website right now...
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