February Goals Recap

This month has been a lot of work, but I think I've done well on my goals:

• Exercise - I, with my husband, have been using online workout videos to get in exercise sessions each week. We started with every other day, but haven't quite kept it up. I try to be realistic with life getting in the way, but really my life is dependent on my health, so I need to work on that.
• Increasing Up Time - I've really met this goal. During the week I spend at least 2 hours "up" each day...typically the majority of that time is walking. I haven't successfully maintained 10,000 steps each day, but I do reach that goal often and am usually above 8,000 per day.
• Water, Water, Water - I wish I knew the ounces I've been drinking (I don't track that), but I bet it's a lot! I drink a ton of water every day. I haven't noticed any affect from it yet, but I'm sure it's helping.
• Nutrition - This area I probably struggle with more than exercising! I think I have improved (homemade whole wheat bread, less and healthier desserts, healthier breakfasts), but I have yet to enjoy the improved nutrition. I've read about people who actually crave healthy foods after eating right for long enough and I'm hoping to get there one day.

February may be ending, but I will still be working on these goals. Meanwhile onward to March!

Walking Challenge

One of my goals this month is to try to be up more. Up just means not sitting (duh), but I do want to also get up to the daily recommended number of steps to maintain health and weight (10,000). You can't really know how many steps you are taking without a pedometer, so I bought one. I researched different options and settled on this one. It was relatively inexpensive, but had great reviews. 

I've actually had the pedometer for two months now and it's great. I do find that it records most accurately when worn on the lanyard around your neck. While I've had it for some time, I haven't really stuck to any schedule for improving my daily step totals. So I've developed this walking challenge for February that ties into my health goals. Each day (excluding rest days) I up the steps goal by 500 steps. I know it doesn't seem like very much, but once you hit your typical number of steps upping it each day is a lot of work! The rest days are thrown in there because it's tiresome to be constantly trying to keep track. I would recommend still tracking your steps and maybe just trying to solidify whatever progress you've made. 

Let me know if you use my walking challenge! It would be great to have some step counting buddies : ) 

The Happiness Project: February Goals

The theme for February is Health. Through the last couple of years my health has taken a dive. I've been stressed and busy finishing school and getting married. My life has finally smoothed out and I am in a set routine! I want to take advantage of this and get healthier and lose weight. It's so disheartening to look at pictures and just see the weight adding on! So I'm going to be attempting to introduce some healthy habits this month with the following goals:

• Exercise - I want to get a set exercise schedule and routines set up so that it's easier for me to get exercises in on a regular basis. I'm hoping to work up to every other day. 
• Increasing Up Time - I KNOW I am not active enough, but besides exercise sessions I want to work on just being UP! 
• Water, Water, Water - I don't actually drink very many non-water beverages, but I can always drink more water and I'm hoping drinking more will help with the health of my skin especially.
• Nutrition - I never manage to eat enough fruits and veggies and I'm sure there are a lot of other areas I need to improve on as well.

Well that's definitely a lot to work on! I almost don't have high hopes of actually improving this month, but if I can set myself up to improve that would be a success.