Goal #3

Today is the first day of Dr. Fuhrman's 6-week holiday challenge. I committed each day to eat a large salad, a cooked green vegetable (preferably with mushrooms and onions), a serving of legumes, and at least 3 servings of fruit. I also committed to not eat white flour or sugar (including artificial sweeteners) and to limit my intake of oil.

I decided to start last Tuesday rather than today. It has been interesting. Over the last week I've lost 5 1/2 pounds. Even better, I've stopped craving sugar.

I need to not lose focus though. I don't know how many times I've stopped craving sugar and started losing weight and then started eating sugar again, for whatever reason, and then started in a renewed spiral of sugar addiction.

Goals #1 and #2

Goal #1 - Scriptures and prayers daily. I've been a little lax with my morning scriptures and prayers lately. I should just wake up and do them first thing, but I often get distracted by something else and then forget.

Right now I'm reading Luke in the New Testament. I would love to finish the NT by the end of the year, but don't know if I'll quite make it.

Today I started my challenge out right with waking up and doing my scriptures and prayers first thing. One day down and 45 to go until the end of the year.

Goal #2 - Exercise 6 days a week. I've been a little better with this goal. I've started a courthouse membership and have been taking group power classes MWF and group active classes on TTh. Mark and I usually go on a walk on Saturdays.

One thing I might like to change is group active. It has 20 minutes of weight training and I don't want to lift weights every day. Glenda wasn't at group active yesterday so I stayed for group step. It was so much more challenging and I might consider taking it instead. I also want to try a spin class.

New Goals

I just read Willow's post about her new Master List of goals. I looked at the goals I set for myself several years ago on this blog. I did end up graduating from BYU as planned. Some of the other goals I haven't been as consistent with. I decided to make a new list of goals to take me through the end of 2011.

Goal #1 - Daily scripture study and prayers

Goal #2 - Exercise 6 days a week

Goal #3 - Do Dr. Fuhrman's 6 week holiday challenge

Goal #4 - Do something creative each day for the rest of the year

Goal #5 - Preparedness plan in place

Goal #6 - Look for an opportunity to serve each day

Goal #7 - Complete kids' bedroom

OK. That should be good for a start. I will comment more on each of these goals in later posts and report on how I am progressing.