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*Update* As I begin to begin using this once again, I feel it is necessary to review the goals I did and did not make through 2011. This Journal is as much about completing my resolutions as they are meeting my weight loss goals.  So that I see them and remind myself that I am indeed insane, I'm posting them up at the very top of the journal.  Consider this a call for cheerleading!  I am in need of someone (or several someones) who can cheerlead me through these resolutions!

As for 2010, I would like to celebrate first and foremost that I started down the path of weight loss, and ended the year with just over 30 pounds lost! I will continue with this project.

Onto the Resolutions:

Health: --DID NOT succeed in any of these goals at all, especially after September of 2011.
  • I want to lose 80lbs and weigh under 200 by December 31st. DIDN'T EVEN COME CLOSE
  • I resolve to go to the gym at least twice a week and once during the weekend.--
  • My goal is to go to the gym at least four times a week.
  • I want to be more stringent on brushing my teeth after lunch!
  • I'm limiting myself to 1 fast food meal during the week.
  • I want to cook at least two dinners a week.
  • Friday lunch and Saturdays are my not-so-stringent days - (if I'm good on Saturday though, I can be not-so-stringent on Sunday)
  • I have to remember that going out to eat doesn't mean I have to be bad!
  • I will absolutely stay on my diet track Monday through Thursday!
  • I will treat myself to spa sessions on an as needed basis.
  • I will learn to write all this down!!  And keep it organized!!
Education/Cultural:
  • I want to go to at least 2 lectures or seminars this year.
  • I want to read more: I'm going to strive for 20 books this year.
  • I will complete Les Miserables this year (there are exactly 365 chapters in the book.)
  • I will go to at least 2 performances of fine arts this year.
  • (Okay, so this one is super easy, since I already have tickets for three events)
  • I will complete the Rosetta Stone Spanish Course I recieved for Christmas two years ago!

Organization: NOPE.
  • I will strive to keep my house clean!!
  • I will do laundry more than once a week!
  • My car-It will be clean!

Financial: I'm on track for this.
  • I will continue to have great credit.
  • I will become as debt free as possible (and put extra payments on my mortgage!).
  • I will put money away for my retirement.

Employment: Little did I know that my job nearly drove me insane. Thankfully I stayed employed until I found a new job that is less stressful, closer to home, and with a track to continue forward with my career.
  • Stay employed this year! (Okay, so it sounds awful, but I've changed jobs twice in two years, both because contracts ended and funding dried up. Now that I'm in a non-contract job, it should be no problem, but still... its on my list.)
  • Keep my current salary range! (I really should hope it goes up, but I don't want to set my hopes up too high!)
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Week Dates: January 2, 2011-January 8, 2010 (Week 1)

Physical Health

Working Out:
Resolution: Go to the gym twice a week and Saturday? No
Goal: Go to the gym four times a week? No

Dieting and Weight Loss:
Starting Weight: 276
Ending Weight: 273
Delta: 3!
Update master progress chart: Yes!

Goal: Only one fast food meal per week: Yes! (sandwich day does not count as fast food?--Maybe)
Goal: Cook two dinners per week: Yes!
Goal: Make and take lunch Monday-Thursday: Yes!
Goal: Maintain Daily Diet Entries for everyday: No

Pampering:
Pamper yourself this week: nope

Organizational Health

Goal: Keeping my home clean: No
Goal: Keeping my car clean: Yes!

Intellectual Health

Goal: Read a book: Reading two-and both on schedule for deadlines
Goal: Write something: No
Goal: Learn something new: a plethora of new vocabulary words.

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Reading Schedule: Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

Plan: Complete entire book in one calendar year (365 days), one chapter a day. Each chapter is approximately 4-5 pages in length. As books are complete, read chapter analyses available online.

Volume

Book

#Chapters

Due Date

Date Completed

Fantine

1: A Just Man

14

January 12

January 2

2: The Fall

13

January 25

January 4

3: In the Year 1817

9

February 3

January  30

4: To Confide is Sometimes to Abandon

3

February 6

Febuary 2

5: The Descent

13

February 19

June 23

6: Javert

2

February 21

 

7: The Chapmathieu Affair

11

March 4

 

8: The Counterstroke

5

March 9

 

Cosette

1: Waterloo

19

March 28

 

2: The Ship Orion

3

March 31

 

3: The Promise to the Dead Fulfilled

11

April 11

 

4: The Gorbeau Tenement

5

April 16

 

5: For a Still Hunt a Dumb Pack

10

April 26

 

6: Petit Picpus

11

May 7

 

7:A Parenthesis

8

May 15

 

8: Cemetaries Take What is Given Them

9

May 24

 

Marius

1: Paris Studied in its Gamin

13

June 6

 

2:Le Grand Bourgeois

8

June 14

 

3: Grandfather and Grandson

8

June 22

 

4: The Friends of the A.B.C.

6

June 28

 

5: The Good of Misfortune

6

July 4

 

6: The Conjunction of Two Stars

9

July 13

 

7: Patron Minette

4

July 17

 

8: The Evil Poor

22

August 8

 

St. Denis

1: Some Pages of History

6

August 14

 

2: Eponine

4

August 18

 

3: House of the Rue Plumet

8

August 26

 

4: Succor From Below May be Succor From On High

2

August 28

 

5: In Which the End Does Not Resemble The Beginning

6

September 3

 

6: Little Gavroche

3

September 6

 

7: Slang

4

September 10

 

8: Enchantments and Desolations

7

September 17

 

9: Where Are They Going?

3

September 20

 

10: The Fifth of June, 1832

5

September 25

 

11: The Atom Fraternizes With The Hurricane

6

October 1

 

12: Corinth

8

October 9

 

13: Marius Enters The Shadow

3

October 12

 

14: The Grandeur of Despair

7

October 19

 

15: The Rue De L’Homme Arme

4

October 23

 

Jean Valjean

1: The War Between Four Walls

24

November 16

 

2: The Intestine of the Leviathan

6

November 22

 

3: Mud But The Soul

12

December 4

 

4: Javert Derailed

1

December 5

 

5: Grandson and Grandfather

8

December 13

 

6: The Sleepless Night

4

December 17

 

7: The Last Draught From the Cup

2

December 19

 

8: Fading Away The Twilight

4

December 23

 

9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn

6

December 29