My Christmas Gift to Me

I've decided to give myself some Christmas gifts. This could be tricky, because it involves me setting goals. I tend to stink at accomplishing the ones I really want. But here's the deal. I've posted something on this blog almost every day since going to General Conference on October 2 because I felt like I needed to be a better record keeper. I'm pretty proud of that. And quite frankly, Hannah is the motivation behind that. But see? It proves that I can accomplish things. So....

Here are the gifts I want to give myself for Christmas. They are really just baby steps. But that's what I've got to give right now.

1. The gift of health. I'm going to give myself 300,000 steps by Christmas day. That's roughly105+ miles. It's my Fitbit goal of 10,000 steps a day, which I have to make a concentrated effort to achieve. But I'm gonna do my best.
2. The gift of nutrition. Or the beginnings of it anyway. Drink more water. I'm going to give myself 3000 oz of water by Christmas day. That's 100 oz a day. Or 23 gallons in all. I might have to reevaluate this goal, because...hello, I get seasick at about 50 oz. But I'm gonna do my best.
3. The gift of the gospel. I'm going to read the Book of Mormon in the next 30 days. It's about 8 chapters a day, or 18 pages a day. I can do this. I used to tell my Young Women that if they could read a Harry Potter book (which is generally more than 531 pages) in under a week, then they could read the Book of Mormon in under week. Now I have to prove this, lol.

So there you have it. Wish me luck and cheer me on. :)

Weighing In on Weighing In

I recommitted myself to Weight Watchers this week.  I'd been getting lazy, not tracking, and here recently, not really caring either.  That's bad.  It means that I have stayed within 2 pounds of my 10% goal for weeks ... ok, 2 months actually.  That's so ridiculous.

So.  I'm back on the bandwagon.  I have faithfully tracked my food and activity EVERY. DAY. this week.  AND I've been to the gym to work out, in addition to walking the dogs.

We got a Y membership, and we are loving it.  This Y is so nice!  They have an awesome training program for new members, and they are much more family oriented than our old Y was.  That means the older kids can use the exercise machines, or they can come to classes with me, or they can go to their very own classes.  It's wonderful, and I'm totally psyched to get back in shape again.