2010

I thought it was due time for a 2010 Goals Update – the ones I made and posted on January 10, 2010. How are we doing here?

1. Diet Changes – without necessarily “dieting”.
a) No More Fast Food with the exceptions of salads and coffee at a fast food restaurant. Starbucks doesn’t count. We’re doing pretty good with this rule – and I suppose being a single-income family for a while really helped us out ;) I have eaten McDonalds twice since January 2^nd and both were choices that I knew I was making. I have eaten Subway 3 times and all 3 of those times were for skating competitions back in January. I was okay with these exceptions. Truth be told? I don’t even crave McDonalds like I used to!!!

b) No more pop at home. We have not bought pop very much in this home and I’m glad for that. We used to buy it every trip to the grocery store. Lately we’ve only bought gingerale a handful of times when I was sick/had knee surgery…and when Jord’s mom was here. Though technically she bought it and that was my rule – I could drink pop just not purchase it. We’re doing well. I would like to continue cutting pop out completely.
c) Cutting out Soy. We’ve done really well at this as well. I’m proud of our efforts to cut out soy and we continue to make progress everyday. We’ve cut out all obvious forms of soy oil, flour, etc. that we can find in our day to day lives.
d) Less meat, more veggies. We sucked at this goal. We still eat meat almost every night. However, we also eat veggies every night. I guess we’re 50/50. Looking to improve on this more.
e) Attain a copy of In Defense of Food. I still haven’t. I also want to see Food Inc.

2. Get a job. Done and done – I got one in February and have never been so happy with a company and job in my life!

3. Pay off our debt. We’re actively working on this and I’m proud of how far we’ve come. We have a long way to go, but a second income is going to start making bigger dints. We’ve transferred all credit card debt on to one card and are now working at getting a better interest rate and line of credit at the bank to do so in order to pay it off. I no longer have credit cards and that is good for me.

4. Find a home church. We haven’t done this yet either. I have one in mind, but we need to look into it a little more. I now work Sunday mornings and so the church needs to be Saturday or Sunday evenings. I’ve found one Sunday afternoon church. We just need to get sorted out and just go one day. It’s scary going somewhere new!

5. Alexys’ goals:
a) Potty training – this is an end of the year goal so not many strides have been made towards this and that’s fine for now.
b) No more bottles by 18 months. Well, what can I say? My kid LOVES her bottle (ironically after struggling to get her to take one in the first place for so long!). She takes it only in her crib, though, and only twice a day – once for a nap and once at night (or more if she wakes up during the night). I’m okay with this progress (ie: none during the day or out in public) for now. We’ll wait on the taking it away completely for now.

c) Walking. She can walk – and run and climb and cause trouble ;)

New Goals – April 2010

1. Diet Changes. These need to continue as listed above plus:
a) Watch Food Inc. Apparently this is inspiring.
b) Lose 10 pounds. No really. I gained back some baby weight (I choose to call it baby weight still because I never would have gained it now if I didn’t have a baby in the first place. Hmph.).

c) Exercise. I hate this. No really I do. I WISH I could be one of those people who just loves going for a run and enjoys it. I hate it. ABSOLUTELY HATE IT. But I have found a Zumba fitness DVD and I’ve been doing that for 15 minutes a morning with Alexys. My goal is to do it everyday. I’ll get there. My knee isn’t 100%. I will also build up to 45 minutes. Without skating now, I need exercise in my life and it has to be an active decision.
d) Cut out junk food. I’ve done this a little bit, but I need to continue toward this commitment.
e) Not be a carbaholic. I truly crave carbs a lot. I’m working on this.

I think that’s all for now actually. Mostly diet/lifestyle changes to be had.

kortney elise xoxo