I’ll be posting monthly check-ins on my 2023 Goals. This is check-in #9!
Take care of my health
I’m down 4.4% of my body weight for the month, and 23% for the year.
September was a good month. I got into a groove with my eating again, and accidently developed a bit of a set meal plan for my normal days at home that’s working well for me:
- Breakfast 1 (pre workout): a slice of bread with PB & banana
- Breakfast 2 (post workout): a protein shake (made w/Sunwarrior Vanilla Protein Powder, vanilla almond milk, and frozen bananas)
- Mid morning chai
- Lunch: a huge salad with a bit of leftovers
- Afternoon snack: banana (or other fruit)
- Dinner: whatever we are making, ha – usually a carb, protein, and veggies
- Dessert: fruit
I also stopped eating sweets as much on September 7th
I hope that eating this consistently translates into a stable INR and my INR appointments being pushed farther and farther apart!
I continued to workout at WWM Fitness this month – I did 13 classes. I ran, walked, and biked. I haven’t mentioned it, but Steven has been running with me more again – we ran together 6 times this month.
Oh! And I did a 10K with Rachel this month! And tried acupuncture. I also started to feel really overwhelmed at work and set up a therapy appointment for Monday the 2nd (I hadn’t gone since the beginning of August).
Spend less
(mostly tracking my two vices – sending packages and getting Starbucks)
I sent 5 packages – one to our lawyer ($7.90), one for a birthday ($5.33), and three random ones ($5.04, $6.71, $7.37) totaling $32.35.
January: $248.76
February: $81
March: $72.54
April: $44.40
May: $37.37
June: $99.47
July: $15.09
August: $48.86
September: $32.35
Total: $679.84
Last year I spent $1740 on shipping. I’m doing a lot better!
I had a chai when I was in work training on September 19, and a caramel oatmilk macchiato when I was still in training the next day on the 20th. Thankfully, I still have lots of money on my account from birthday gift cards!
Continue to purge things I don’t use from the house
I’ve been steadily throwing out old clothes but this was not a concerted effort this month.
Visit a new state with Steven
We are going to Maine soon! And we are visiting new-to-us countries next year.
Hide a rock a day for the year
Still on track! But starting to find it burdensome, and am glad I’m almost done.
Congrats Kim! You’ve put in the work, you have a good system in place, so no surprise that you CONTINUE to get results.
Maine is on my travel list, so I’ll be eagerly following along on your journey. New countries??? Very exciting.
Aww, thank you so much!
And yay, Maine is coming up so soon! I haven’t really planned or thought about it. I will have to do that this weekend.
Good on you! I really enjoy your hiding a rock a day project, but I can see how it would be exhausting. I mean, most days I don’t even leave my house, so finding someplace new to hide it would be very challenging!
Thank you! It is. I am really just sick of filming it and editing it. I want to record less and do more. Or just record less, ha.
I’m giggling at your photo of you in a banana costume in your collage. Nicely done!
I am ready to be done with my picture-a-day challenge, so I feel you. Some days are just hard!
Ha! Thanks for noticing! I thought it would be more fun than a photo of a banana.
OMG YES GIRL. I get you.