Goals for 2015? aka What are your resolutions for the new

Exercise regularly 3-5 x/week
Lose 65-75 lbs.

To catch up and keep up with all of my laundry. If I accomplish nothing else but that I will consider 2015 a success!

I would also like to get back to cooking at home more and being more organized.

More reading.

Get better at drawing and art.

Learn French.

Lose the weight I gained because of my foot surgery...and with this goes getting into the shape I was in before my foot issue.

Be a little more organized in my lacking areas.

Be a better wife.

Learn new cooking techniques, maybe even start a cookbook of my own.

I hope to finally lose the last 20 pounds I've been carrying around now for almost 4 years.  

I also want to be just plain more accepting of my husband, accepting his flaws and quirks and not letting them bother me.  No pointing them out.

I want to spend more time with my DD.  I think she needs more quality time with me.  I am considering an exercise class for the two of us.  

I want to pay off all my credit card debt.  I think I really have a good chance of this happening.  I am working on it.

1 - At the end of the day I will empty my wallet of any $5.00 bills and put them in an envelope in our safe.
2 - Organize, organize, organize.
3 - Continuing from my successful resolution from last year - have a monthly friend date with my girlfriend Cathy. We managed to schedule get togethers every month and it really made a difference in my life. It is nice to be close with good friends and even nicer to have someone make the same effort to get together.

-donate platelets and blood (if I'm able)
-participate in a walk for leukemia
-participate in a walk for ALS
-donate to United Cancer
-eat healthier, consistently
-exercise regularly, consistently
-enroll for college courses

I have a list of projects that I would like to accomplish in 2015 too. It's a long list.

That is pretty much my goals as well, except I would also like to do be able to do a few more crafty things for myself, instead of always doing them for others.

I would like to get a used treadmill and train for a 5K for my 50th in August. I'm not a runner at all.

Also, we have to get our finances in order. DD will be going off to college in the fall and we need to get things together to apply for loans, etc. That will be a formidable task since we haven't yet filed 2013 taxes (we get a refund so it's not a huge deal).

Another one is get better organized in general. Our garage is a disaster and I'm just so tired of having so much junk around. Ready to purge!

Forgot about this one!  I definitely need to work on this.


And you see how my list gets to be too long . . .

We're making a big move in June, so I absolutely have to start going through everything we own and just get rid of the excess. That's what I'll be most focused on.

Stop buying crap food for our family.

Get back into my exercise routine.

Unplug once in a while, including my cellphone, Kindle, etc.

Exercise. Regular exercise. I know it's good for me, but I hate doing it so I resist.

Last year I went vegan and maintained that since February 2013.

Previous years, I cut out soda, fast food, and processed foods. Dropped enough weight that I'm back into size medium or size 10 again, instead of the XL I was wearing for a few years thanks to the prescription medication I was on.  Oh what a great feeling that is!. Part of me still wants to push to get back into a size small, but at 54 and in the middle of menopause the other part is saying, "Hey that's pretty good. Don't push it and stop being a darn perfectionist."

I have a great dance/exercise DVD sitting right on top of the TV still in it's shrink wrap waiting to be opened. There is NO excuse. I can do it when it's cold out and there are no membership fees to be paid. I love doing dance/exercise. I even bought the top and exercise pants. Still don't have a bra though, but heck I can use a regular bra at first. I do have to lash down these 38 double DD's though. Man, I hate having big boobs. You'd think losing all of this weight I'd lose some in the cup part, but no, I only lost in the number part of the measurement. Darn things didn't go down one bit. By I can at least start.

Anyway, that's my resolution.

Debbie in MD.

I've started running again which feels soooo good.
I'd like to run 3 miles a day at least 3 times per week plus run 5 miles on the weekend.
40 sit ups every night and work up to 75 push-ups.

Travel more....both just with DHs and with the three boys.

I'd like to start with this place Shutters

1) Lose my remaining 40 pounds. Have lost 70.
2) Continuing from ^ above, I want to be able to PERFECTLY fit into an awesome black suit and blouse, with the shirt tucked in and a belt. Without bulges. People have asked me "when will you feel that you've lost enough weight," and this is what I reply.
3) Get out more. I won't ever find a girlfriend if I don't make myself available to the general public. #3 is the hardest for me, both in practical terms and in emotional terms. I am a VERY hard shell to crack. My BFF once told me, "Getting to be your friend was like going through an alligator-filled swamp on a rickety piece of wood with a paddle and then darting through a minefield only to discover that I had to climb a barbed-fence wire."