{"id":7781,"date":"2011-08-31T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=7781"},"modified":"2011-12-14T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:55:38","slug":"365-days-of-bliss-project-me-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/365-days-of-bliss-project-me-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Days of Bliss: Project Me – Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone! It’s Dana here – and I cannot believe it’s already the end of August! I say that every month – but seriously – the year is more than half-way over! Yikes! I have done nearly as much this year as I had planned!! Haha! But seriously, I had some pretty big goals this year, and I don’t feel like I’ve been making any real progress towards achieving them. In fact, I feel like like my life has gotten a bit more disorganized\/out-of-control. At the beginning of the year, I chose FOCUS as my word of the year. As I look back, I see that I haven’t been focused at all – I have been running around doing a little bit here, a little bit there – but not really accomplishing anything. Therefore, I’m going to make a concerted effort, beginning tomorrow, September 1st – to really start focusing on ME and what I would like to change in my life. Luckily, both my girls will be in preschool three days\/week so I should <\/em>have some free time to tackle some projects.<\/p>\n

As I think about things I’d like to change – I can come up with a few categories off the top of my head: my overall health (broken down into exercise and diet), housekeeping, meal planning, general organization, digi-scrapping and photography, other hobbies … I, personally, really <\/strong>love structure and plans – so I’m going to try to come up with some sort of plan for each of these categories to work towards my goals. I’m going to start with exercise – because it’s something I’m already doing a little bit of, it’s something that makes me feel GREAT and, when I feel good, some of the other categories (e.g., eating well and keeping the house clean) start improving naturally.<\/p>\n

I don’t dislike exercise, actually – in fact, I love going to the gym and doing group classes. My problem over the past few years is that there is always something else I need to do “more” – there is always housework and laundry, doing something with\/for the kids or my husband … exercise is something that has been VERY easy to put on the back burner. I need to make it a priority in my life again – I am REALLY out of shape, especially when I think about the activity level I had pre-kids. I wasn’t super fit or anything, but I could run for an hour, I loved aerobics, I swam on swim teams for most of my life, I ran 5Ks every once in a while and I even did a few triathlons (slowly – haha!) … now – I cannot even run one mile \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So – here are a few things I’m going to do in the upcoming months … If anyone else would like to join in, please comment here! We can start a check-in thread in the forums and all work on exercise together \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The Couch-to-5K<\/a> running plan: I did this program about 10 years ago and it was the first time I ever really ran 3 miles. I remember being SO proud when I finished the program! I continued running a few times a week and worked my way up to 5 or 6 mile runs. I never LOVED running, but I DID love the feeling I had when I finished. I was just so very proud of myself! I really want that feeling back! So – I’m going to start this program again next week (after the Labor Day holiday). I have an iPhone App for this – I’m sure there is something similar for androids – and I’ve heard there are podcasts out there too that follow the program.<\/p>\n

One Hundred Pushups<\/a> is something I just recently heard about – and I was immediately interested! I have really poor upper body strength and would love to improve. I’m going to start this at the same time as the C25K program.<\/p>\n

I LOVE Jillian Michaels – it borders on obsession, really LOL! I have both the 30 Day Shred<\/a> and Ripped in 30 <\/a>DVDs and am planning on doing them (30 Day Shred first, then Ripped in 30) starting late September\/early October (earlier if I can – but I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself LOL). The workouts in each are 20 – 30 minutes – so combined with the C25K plan I will be working out for one hour\/day max – totally doable!!<\/p>\n

As I mentioned above, I love going to the gym to do group classes – I will also continue to do that as time allows – some of my favorite classes are Zumba, Step Aerobics, Body Definition (a cardio\/weight class), Pilates and Yoga. However, I’m not sure I can go to any of them consistently enough to add them to my official schedule. So, for me, these will be added bonuses \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Some of my longer term goals are do do a 5K (maybe the annual Turkey Trot at Thanksgiving …anyone in Dallas at Thanksgiving want to do it with me ?! \ud83d\ude42 ), join the local Masters Swim Team and do another triathlon …<\/p>\n

So there you go – my exercise schedule is now out there publicly!! Whew! Now to actually stick to it! Tell me – do you exercise consistently? What are your exercise goals?<\/p>\n

Also – sorry everyone that I don’t have a great scrapbook page to share about these goals – I am actually stuck out of town without my real computer! We went out of town last weekend (to FL) and were supposed to go home on Sunday … well, because of the weather we were unable to get a flight – and are STILL here! LOL! We had plans to go to Chicago for Labor Day – so we have decided to stay here until Thursday night and just go directly to Chicago from here — our long weekend has turned into a more-than-a-week vacation \ud83d\ude42 What a nice way to end the summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone! It’s Dana here – and I cannot believe it’s already the end of August! I say that every month – but seriously – the year is more than half-way over! Yikes! I have done nearly as much this year as I had planned!! Haha! But seriously, I had some pretty big goals this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9871,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}