{"id":53810,"date":"2018-01-08T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=53810"},"modified":"2018-01-03T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:33:38","slug":"new-year-new-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=53810","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The older I get, the less I am interested in New Year’s Resolutions.\u00a0I like making lists, I like having goals. I definitely set personal goals for myself and the new year seems like a good time to reflect on those. But I also feel like New Year’s Resolutions are a way to set people up for high expectations and disappointment if we don’t meet those goals (right away!!).<\/p>\n

New Year’s Resolutions have been\u00a0<\/strong>synonymus with weight loss goals.<\/strong> I am still trying to lose the baby weight, and who knows, I may be fighting that fight for awhile! But I am making slow progress on that and at least moving in the right direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve said it a few times, but the low carb diet is not a diet for me. It’s too hard for me to maintain for very long. It’s definitely difficult with my workout schedule. I see a big difference in my energy levels when I run during low carb days. It’s HARD.<\/p>\n

With that being said, I am not going to swear it off entirely. I think it might be a good way, short term, to jump start weight loss after plateaus. So I will probably try it again in the future, but I will not be beating myself up when I can’t continue the diet for long term. I am ok with that.<\/p>\n

One thing I did learn with the low carb diet attempts in 2017, cutting out SUGAR made the bigger difference on the scale for me. IF there is one New Year’s Resolution goal that I might be focusing on, it’s trying to cut out sugar!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2017 was a really hard year for me personally. There was a lot of heavy, hard stuff that happened that weighed on me for a long time.\u00a0My hope is that 2018 will be a better year for me and my family.<\/p>\n

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I want to be a better person. I want to be happier with where I am in my life, what size clothes I wear, etc. I want to focus less on things that don’t really matter. I want to be better at self-care and resting when I need to. I want to drink more water.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We have a few vacations and road trips that we’ve planned. I am really looking forward to those. I’m excited about showing Logan different things and now that he’s getting older and can participate more, it will be fun to make family memories!<\/p>\n

Some things I’ve already started:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I started 2018 off right with a workout on New Year’s Day. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

A few months ago, Michael and I started a tradition of family dinners at the dining room table Monday-Thursday nights. No TV, no phones, just family time. It’s going well and I am happy that we are doing that.<\/p>\n

I’ve been toying with the idea of ending this blog and perhaps starting one entirely dedicated to book reviews. I don’t know if I will, but it’s a thought I’ve had for awhile. Stay tuned. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Do you have any goals for the new year?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The older I get, the less I am interested in New Year’s Resolutions.\u00a0I like making lists, I like having goals. I definitely set personal goals for myself and the new year seems like a good time to reflect on those. But I also feel like New Year’s Resolutions are a way to set people up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,95,1683,318,2152,2234,319,214,219,298],"tags":[9670,9671,8617,8636,2191,952,8758,1170],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53810"}],"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=53810"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53930,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53810\/revisions\/53930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}