1. Get at least 30 minutes of aerobic activity per day
2. Eat 3 meals per day
3. Drink Shakeology for at least 1 meal per day
4. Cook a healthy dinner at least 4 nights per week
5. Track my activity, food, water, and sleep with my fitbit everyday
These are measurable, challenging, but attainable goals. I would ideally love to lose 50lbs, but I don't want to box myself into a corner. I am going to stick to my exercise and food goals and hopefully weight loss will follow. In addition to these hard fast goals, I have some that I'm not ready to put in a quantifiable structure. Such as,
1. Eat more fruits and veggies
- I had a lot of success with Weight Watchers because I could eat as many fruits and veggies as I wanted. But I'm going to be honest here, I don't like fresh fruit. I've never been a fruit eater. I don't think fresh juicy strawberries are delicious. Watermelon is not refreshing. But I love juice! So to increase my fruit and veg intake, I'm going to try and sneak them in. For example, I plan on drinking a fruit and veg smoothie after dinner as a dessert. I've stretched my ground beef with carrots, onions, and celery (more on this later).
2. Eat whole foods
- Over the past year I've been cutting out processed foods. Does that mean I'm never going to eat a prepackaged meal ever again? No, that's unrealistic. But I'm going to try my best to cook things from scratch. Not only is it more economical, it's healthier. Example? I'm going to make my own whole wheat bread. I'm also planning on making my own yogurt!
3. Blog more
- Putting my meal plans out there for the world to see keeps me accountable. I need accountability. I want to not be embarrassed about what I eat and my weight anymore. So my plan is to blog my meal plan for the week on Monday, and then post a recipe and how the week went on Friday.
4. Practice Frugality
- I've gotten into a bad habit of buying things to buy things. My goal is to only buy something that I truly need, will improve my quality of life, or something that after a week I've decided I cannot live without. A vlogger I follow on YouTube (LaVitaDiMeg) is frequently recommending things, such as a beautiful floral and gold tumbler from Starbucks. I wanted this tumbler so bad, because it was pretty. But I decided that I didn't need it because I already have 3 tumblers that I use on a regular basis. I was still thinking about it weeks later, so I looked into purchasing one, but they were completely sold out everywhere. Turns out I didn't need it, I just wanted it. And I'm not upset that I didn't get to buy one.
Do you have any new year's resolutions that you are going to follow this year? Let's work together on keeping each other accountable!
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