Here we go!

And so it begins...

I have thought of a couple other goals I would like to work on this year! Yes, I tend to over commit or think I can accomplish more than I can in a certain period of time... However, I think these are all in the realm of possibilities depending on how I define success and progress. 

Additional goals:

5) Brush my teeth twice a day more frequently! 
          This may seem kind of gross to those of you out there with excellent dental hygiene; however I have a thing with toothpaste where it grosses me out a lot! And so I try to stick to only brushing in the AM and before any events... gross I know! But surprisingly everyone always compliments my teeth!

6) Keep our house from being eternally dirty due to us and the puppy (i.e. try to keep it a little cleaner and don't let a muddy puppy run around wherever she wants)


Now in terms of progress towards my goals....

I have not made any substantial progress towards 2000 miles- my current total is 8.68 miles, very low for almost two weeks into the new year but there were some extenuating circumstances this week that prevented me from getting to the gym (excuses, excuses, I know!)

I actually weighed myself in today for an official starting weight... not thrilled because those 10lbs are more like 15 lbs that I need to lose. So negative progress on goal number 2?

Getting my abs back... this would probably be much easier if I actually did ab exercises, which I did not this week. So another goal with no progress!

As far as being a better family member, I tried not to be too snippy with the hub when he informed me that I needed to take off work in order to go to something at his job, or when we had a conversation about equitable division of labor around the house (it seems like he thinks everything is my job?!?) No big fights but I probably didn't need to bring up cleaning the house as he was walking out the door this morning to go to work at 7a on a Saturday. I did exchange some nice texts with my brothers this week, which is always good. I think maybe I'll extend this goal to just being a nicer person in general to everyone, but especially to my family members because they're my closest people! However, Kensi makes me feel so guilty when I leave the house in the morning and she is peeking out the front windows with a sad face! :(

Now it's off to the gym I go in order to pick up some more miles and hopefully begin dropping some lbs!!!