My Goals.

For the next 6-7 months, I am going to try to accomplish goals. I'm not going to push to lose weight, but rather push to be incredibly healthy.

If you know me, you know that when I work out, I work out hard. I make sure that no matter what I'm doing, I end up sweating [a lot] and my heart is pounding and my pulse is really going that I can even feel it in my face. So for the next 6-7 months, I hope to achieve:
1. Work my way up to lifting at least 5-10 more pounds than I do now.
2. Do more leg strength training.
3. Walk three days a week.
4. Run three days a week.
5. Try to stay on the new "diet" as much as possible. An all organic "diet" is seriously sounding better and better as I get closer to being back at home.
6. Get back to having my protein smoothies. I miss them!! They're so delish!!


Along with working out and eating right, I have some other goals for myself. These goals are:
1. Take better care of my facial skin. [I cleanse twice a day, but don't always tone and moisturize. So I am going to work on toning and moisturizing every time I wash my face.]
2. Moisturize all of my skin at least once a day. [I'm bad at not always doing this.]
3. Take better care of my nails. [I used to give myself manicures at least twice a month, and I'd like to get back into doing that.]
4. Keep a "fresh face". [I think it's best to not spackle makeup on one's face, but to have a more "fresh" look. I only wear a lot of eye makeup on occassion - just to "play up" my eyes.]


There are a few things that I am considering for when I go back to Ohio during the deployment. My younger sister and I have discussed maybe taking a tumbling class just for the hell of it. I haven't done a backhandspring since May 2005, so it'd be hilarious to see me try and tumble again. My sister and I just want to take a tumbling class though because it'd be an excellent workout for us!! You have to use so many muscles to tumble, and you really do gain a lot of upper body strength tumbling. I'm not going to try to get back all of the tumbling skills I once had, but it'd be nice to see if I can get back my backhandspring. LOL. [Please, if I got all of my tumbling skills back, I'd be better than a lot of college cheerleaders!! No joke!!] I'm even debating about whether or not to put Michael and Brayden into a tumbling class for little kids when we go home. Both of them love to flip around - especially Brayden!!

Another thing I am hoping to do when I'm back in Ohio is to swim 2-4 days a week. And I don't just mean get in the pool, play around for a little bit, and that's it. Of course I'll do that, but what I really want to do is get in the pool and actually swim some laps. You know, really use my arms and legs like a true swimmer and get my heart pumping!! That's what I want to do!! It'd be another great workout for me.

I'd also like to get back into dance when I'm home, but I don't know if that'll happen. I wouldn't do ballet, jazz, or anything like that. I'd rather get into hip hop classes. I used to be a hip hop dancer back in high school, and I'd like to get back into it. It's so much fun and you get a great workout from it!! Some people don't think that you need any strength at all for hip hop dancing, but they're so wrong!! You really need to have strength to do a lot of the moves!! But if I can't take a hip hop dance class when I'm home, there's always the alternative...dancing around the house. It's not as good as taking a class, but I guess it works. HA.

So there are my goals for the next 6-7 months. I plan to accomplish all of my goals, and hopefully even pass them!! I'm totally committed to this, just like I have been committed to many healthy choices I've made within the last year.

PS - Is there a way to block someone from reading my blog that doesn't "follow" my blog?! I have recently found out that someone has taken things I've written about on here, went to their own blog, and "bashed" me and the things I have chosen for my life and such. How incredibly lame is that?! I just don't want to make my blog private since a lot of people have been having problems with that lately. So I would like to block that user, if at all possible, from reading my blog...if there even is a way. If there isn't, maybe I will just have to try and make my blog private.