What's your New Year's Resolution?

My resolutions as far as this website are concerned are all workout related. Pushing myself farther to see where I can go! I'm training for a half marathon and I want to be able to finish the race! So I guess mine are:

Burn 4000-5000 Calories a Week
Begin Half Marathon Training
Be able to swim a mile

Mine is to keep on running and PR my races for 2011. I am also planning on trying to run at least one race a month for the year...I already have a race in Jan, Feb, March and July!

To get into a routine and plan things. There is so much that I want to see and do and I feel that I haven't given myself the opportunity to get it done this year. So next year, I need to plan out my days better to definitely include working out, more home cooked meals and going out on the weekends. There's so much to do in DC and I barely go into the city.

1. Once a month go out of my way to help someone in need.
2. Continue with my workouts and calorie counting
3. Visit one place I have never been before
4. Still working on the others.....

1) Maintain my weight BUT not obsess
2) Have more patience (in all aspects of life)
3) Not be so judgemental
4) Smile more

1. Eat more protein (and consequently, fewer carbohydrates hence my new mantra: Just say NO to PASTA)
2. Run a race each month (Jan and Feb half marathons signed up for and training is in progress)
3. Hit a new PR at each race (2:20 is the goal for Jan)
4. Keep up this newly acquired healthy lifestyle habit ("Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." -Jim Ryan)
5. SCHEDULE Yoga at least once a week
6. Get to 143 lbs and under 25% body fat by May 1 (from 162 lbs and 34%, currently)

Good luck with all of your resolutions (although I don't like to think of them as resolutions because those tend to get broken or forgotten about by February)

Last year, I wanted to run a 10K. Well, I didn't get to accomplish that, so I'm extending it into 2011!

My resolution this year is to not make any New Year's Resolutions - I really believe that we set ourselves up for failure if we make them and then don't achieve.

1 - continue without alcohol until May 2nd
2 - help DH around the house more - he does all of the housework & it's not fair to take advantage of him anymore :embarassed:
3 - run at least five 5k's in 2011
4 - reach my goal weight by May 2nd
5 - buy a new wardrobe - without being eaten alive with buyers-regret/guilt for spending money on myself...

1.) read one chapter of the new testament each weekday
2.) teach my children to pray more deliberately, and pray more purposefully for my children
3.) spend 30 minutes a day PLAYING with my kids (board games, card games, wii, outside)
4.) make time for my vanity everyday, including using a face moisturizer, wearing mascara and exercising at least 20 minutes
5.) call my brother and sister once a week, leaving a message for them counts
6.) write a letter (or card) once a month and MAIL it to my grandpa
7.) run (without walking) a 15k with my friend nicole on march 27
8.) make 2 nights a week be meatless meals by may 30
9.) finish painting the dining room (with new wainscoting) by july 30
10.) take a 'girl's vacation' with just my mom, sister and sister-in-law by september 30
11.) be pregnant or start adoption process
12.) release clutter/simplify

To keep on track with a gradual weight loss, but not get DISCOURAGED! To drink more water, and be honest with myself about the state of my health.

-maintain my new eating habits
-change up exercise routines to focus more on toning and less on pure calorie burn
-be calmer with my children
-spend less time on the computer so I can get some of my projects done around the house

I hope to get my golf handicap down in the teens! (But that's gonna take a LOT of work since it keeps going the other way!)

I don't make resolutions. Resolutions are those things that people set every year just to break them in 3 months. LOL Serioulsy, though, I do set goals for the year and plan the steps to achieve them. It's that planning part that is the most important. Goals aren't achievable unless you do what it takes to achieve them, so you have to set that plan. I haven't done my plan for 2011 yet, because I've been waiting on my doctors appointment to see if I'll even be able to finish my goals for 2010. I think now that some of them may have to be carried over to 2011. It's hard to make bench press goals when you can't lay on a weight bench.

get to 160 before or on Jan 1st 2011, and then lose those 15 lbs and get to my goal BF or 42% or less! keep running a 5k/month (so far have done Oct, Nov, Dec and have Jan lined up!!) and start training for a 10k. Get into those size 6 jeans for my 22nd birthday, learn more about nutrition and fitness, keep doing yoga and graduate with honors!! whew...thats a lot to strive for