2017 Year in Review

Happy New Year!  Sorry that this is a bit late.  It's been a rather rough week (I've been sick). :(  But I'm feeling better, so it's time to look back at my goals for 2017, to see how I did with them (and to set new goals for 2018).

My goals for 2017 were the following:

1. Walk 5000+ steps on five days of every week
2. Swim twice a week every week
3. Control my food portions.

So let's start with goal #1, walking 5000+ steps on five days of every week.  But first, here's December's Fitbit stats:

Dec: 126,057 steps, 30 days tracked, 4,202 average

 And here's the year in total:

 2, 003, 209 steps, 346.5 days tracked, 5781 average

This is an interesting statistic.   I took more steps than in 2016 and tracked more days.  But my average steps per day was actually lower by about 200 steps.  But my average is still over 5000 steps a day, so that's alright.

Alright, for the purposes of this goal, I am counting a week as starting on Sunday and ending on Saturday (because that's how the calendar I'm using looks).  There are 52 weeks in the year.  I walked 5000+ steps on five out of 7 days on only 21 weeks out of the year.  So that's kind of crappy because it's less than half. :(

I also want to note that one thing that sucks about the Fitbit is that "active minutes" and "steps taken" often don't equate.  So going swimming doesn't help my steps.  It's something to keep in mind when setting activity goals in the future.

So now, goal #2, swimming twice a week every week.  This was a complete failure.  I managed to swim twice a week on just five weeks.  I managed to swim once a week on 14 other weeks.  So really I swam on only 19 weeks (which also means my gym membership was completely wasted).  I did much better in the winter and spring of 2017, but stopped going in the summer and had a heck of a time motivating myself to get back to swimming.

Which brings us to goal #3: control my food portions.  I forgot that I set this as a goal.  I didn't track it in any way (I don't even know how I would track it?)  So let's just say this was a total failure.

As a completely unrelated side note, I used my snowshoes for the first time ever on Jan 1, 2018.  They worked well and I had a lot of fun!  :)

So after looking at all of this, I'm going to have to take a bit of time to think of goals for 2018.