Sumacaroni

With focus and determination, it's no joke, I am making continued progress!

Goals for 2012:
Personal:

• Lose 21 pounds and continue to eat consciously and drink 64 ozs. of water daily
• Exercise 3x/week - Through 12 weeks developing calorie-counting habit; in Week 13 I've started the Jillian Michaels 30-day Shred DVD aiming to get 30 days in before our Florida vacation
• Aim for 1# per week weight loss - lost another 4# in March, total down after Week 13 = 15 pounds

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With a new month starting, it's time for a goal checkup to maintain focus, strengthen any weakpoints, and generally reenergize my efforts.

Goals for 2012:
Personal
Lose 21 pounds
Eat consciously - Tracking nutrition and calories thru Spark People App
Drink 64 ozs. of water daily - Definitely switched to water, met goal 8/29 days for February, tried Diet Dr. Pepper - TOO SWEET!
Exercise 3x/week - Need to aim for arm strength training in March ...

With a new month starting, it's time for a goal checkup to maintain focus, strengthen any weakpoints, and generally reenergize my efforts.

Goals for 2012:
Personal

• Lose 21 pounds
• Eat consciously - Tracking nutrition and calories thru Spark People App
• Drink 64 ozs. of water daily - Definitely switched to water, met goal 9/31 days for January
• Exercise 3x/week - Haven't added an exercise routine, did sporadic arm strength training
• Aim for 1# per week weight loss

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As we enter 2012, I look back on the goals I set for 2011 and see there were many things that threatened to kick us off track yet we perservered! We reprioritized our household and our lives and were able to knock out 85% of our debt within the year.

As I look forward to the upcoming year, I realize that focus and determination will be necessary to meet new goals but writing them down and revisiting them throughout the year is of the utmost importance.

Goals for 2012: ...

Last January, I joined Frugal Village after a very trying Christmas week. I was looking for a way to get our household finances under control. I ordered and read a used copy of Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover and was Googling about budgeting and Dave Ramsey when I clicked on a link that brought me here to FV.

The Christmas week was stressful as a medical bill was sent to collections, my husband received a bonus check that was enough to cover the full amount, but I broke down ...