New Goals

Meredith, Crystal and I met last night at Meredith's house to discuss our "healthy goals" for last month and set new ones for February. Nobody was perfect last month. But I think we are making a big step in just talking about it and focusing on setting these new habits. This month, we will continue to strive to break old habits and form new habits. We are going to keep in touch at least once a week to see how we are doing.

MY GOALS (for privacy reasons, I am not going to post Meredith & Crystal's goals. They can certainly post their goals on a comment, if they would like :)

Drink 64 oz. of water a day 5 times a week. I'm getting better and better at this. It is definitely becoming a habit of mine. But I didn't just start last month. I've actually been working on drinking water and cutting out cokes for quite some time.

Stick to the "Walk Away the Pounds" 6-week program. I am excited about this. I bought this book last week that lays out a 6-week program for walking. The first week you start out by walking 1 mile a day. By the last week, you are walking 3 miles a day. It has a lot of helpful hints to keep the walking interesting. The author has videos you can buy that are like aerobics videos, only it is walking in place. Because I have a treadmill, I am going to do my walking on it at first, at least to make sure I stay consistent. Once I get more advanced, I might try a video. Of course, when it gets warmer and stays lighter longer, I can go outside!


Last month none of us reached our goals, so we didn't earn our rewards. I think that is a sign that we set our goals too high. This month, we set up a point system. We earn points, and when we earn a certain number of points, we are rewarded. We get a point for each goal we reach daily. We can earn a maximum of 5 points for each goal a week. So, we could each potentially earn a total of 10 points each week. Last night at our meeting, we forgot to set how many points would get us a reward, so I will have to update this when we decide on that.

MY REWARDS:
1) A movie
2) A portable CD player