My Goals for Week 31 and a Recap of the Past 7 Months

I haven’t written about my goals for a while, but I’ve still been working towards them. First, here the goals I want to accomplish this week:

My Goals for This Week (Week 31)

1. Walk for 10 minutes after breakfast and lunch.
2. Go to the gym 4x this week.
3. Write up three book reviews for the many books I’ve completed this year but haven’t written about.
4. Study Japanese for 60 minutes this week.
5. Continue to track my food intake and use the hunger and fullness scale.

A Recap of The First Seven Months’ Accomplishments

We’re almost at the halfway mark for my goals! Here’s where things stand:

1.) Go to the gym regularly (4 to 5x a week) and increase all the weights I’m currently lifting over the next 12 months (Goal=200 times this year).  I went to the gym 10 times in April, 13 times in March, 12 times in February, only 2 times in January (it was a crazy month!), 8 times in December, 11 times in November, and 16 times in October, so 72 times so far. (36% complete)

2.) Master the stair master and climb 100 flights of stairs. This was on pause for about four months due to my knee. I just started again yesterday; I started the year at 6 flights of stairs, and I’ve worked my way up to 20 flights. (20% complete)

3.) Eat 6 to 10 fruits and vegetables a day. This is hit or miss. I definitely have to focus on this more.

4.) Honor my body and all it does for me by learning and practicing intuitive eating. I found a nutritionist who specializes in intuitive eating and have seen her 4x. I am getting the hang of it, slowly but surely.

5.) Walk 1 to 2 miles most days (Goal=200 miles this year), I’m taking this goal off the list. I find it cumbersome to count my  miles, and I’m doing other cardio, so I don’t always walk as much as I need to to meet this goal.

6.)Do yoga or Tai Chi regularly (Goal=150 times this year). So completely failing at this one right now! I did Tai Chi 1 time in February, 2 times in January, 5 times in December, and yoga 3 times in November for a total of 11 times (7.3% complete).

7.) Read 5 books about health/wellness. I am almost done with the first one, Glucose Revolution.

8.) Study Japanese, or read a book, or do some combination of both for 45 to 60 minutes a day. Japanese study didn’t happen at all, but I did finish these books in the last seven months:

When the World Fell Silent (review coming soon)
Heartwood,
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
The Housemaid,
The Runaway Sisters,
Yellow Crocus, (review coming soon)
I Can Fix This, (review coming soon)
Nobody’s Girl, (review coming soon)
Mustard Seed, (review coming soon)
Beyond Seven Forests, (review coming soon)
The Shining, (review coming soon)
What the Silent Say, (review coming soon)
Homeschooled: A Memoir, (review coming soon)
The Correspondent,
The Flower Sisters, (review coming soon)
Book of Forbidden Words, (review coming soon)
Necessary Lies, (review coming soon)
The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister, (review coming soon)
Golden Poppies, (review coming soon)
The Changing Lives of Joe Hart, (review coming soon)
The Personal Librarian,
The Second Life of Mirielle West,