{"id":22169,"date":"2011-09-01T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=22169"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:18:29","slug":"september-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=22169","title":{"rendered":"September Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Summer is almost over. It’s hard to believe. Especially since it seemed to take forever for summer to even start here in Oregon.<\/p>\n

I love Fall. It’s my favorite time of year. I enjoy wearing sweaters and drinking tea by a roaring fire. October is my favorite month and Halloween is my favorite holiday. With September’s arrival I feel like it’s not quite Fall, instead it’s like the last “hurrah” of summer–last chance hiking in warmer weather, last chance camping before the rain starts.<\/p>\n

August was a really busy month for me. We had a lot of out of town guests<\/a> visiting <\/a>us. It was a month of training <\/a>and achieving personal goals<\/a>. I celebrated my three year anniversary of keeping off 100 pounds<\/a>. There was some sad news<\/a> in my world, but all in all, I’d say August was a pretty good month.<\/p>\n

Did I achieve my\u00a0August Goals?<\/p>\n

1. Continue the Scale-Free Summer. YES.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Go on long bike rides training for the Portland Century. YES. Not as much as I would have liked but we did.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Relax more. \u00a0NOPE. Not really.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Relaxing is hard for me. If I see an empty day on my Google Calender I am much more apt to fill it with plans with friends or projects (never-ending projects!). I did read a lot of books this summer, though, so that qualifies as relaxing in my book. The best books I read this summer were:<\/p>\n

Intriguing and easy to read. Made me homesick for Seattle:<\/p>\n

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Heartbreaking. Cried the whole time. Was sad when the book was over:<\/p>\n

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Haunting and disturbing:<\/p>\n

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What are my plans for September? September is kind of up in the air for me for a lot of reasons. I feel like without a gym membership (possibly) I’ll be living in limbo a bit. But here’s what I can come up with in light of that:<\/p>\n

September Goals<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

1. Commute to work by bike as often as I can.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Possibly train for the Harvest Century<\/a> bike ride.<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Take advantage of the nice weather and go hiking on the weekends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Possibly find a new gym.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Decent goals, I think. No matter how this gym-thing shakes down, I will<\/strong> stay committed to exercising and living my healthy lifestyle. I don’t need<\/em> a gym to stay fit. My hobbies have taught me that. Going scale-free has taught me that. It will be okay.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What was your biggest challenge in August? What goals are you setting for September?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Summer is almost over. It’s hard to believe. Especially since it seemed to take forever for summer to even start here in Oregon. I love Fall. It’s my favorite time of year. I enjoy wearing sweaters and drinking tea by a roaring fire. October is my favorite month and Halloween is my favorite holiday. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[336,39,418,44,45,3522,55,60,460,3258,2721,1702,1248,1202,85,86,101,123,4283,127,1683,152,154,801,318,1292,319,195,1897,2778,3523,2625,214,218,219,224,1239,3039,267,284,3921,285,298],"tags":[369,4288,2989,4290,4289,444,3433,496,4291,8628,4287,4242,4286,8643,8792,8825,4284,4285,1465,3506,3526],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/birth-flower-september.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22169"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22822,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions\/22822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}