2022 Year in Review

Once again, Happy New Year!  I hope you and your family have a happy and healthy 2023!

Now that 2022 is over, it's time to look back at the goals I set for myself and see how I did. 

My 2022 goals were:

1. Lose (and keep off) 20lbs by the end of the year (be under 197lbs).
2. Work out for 150 minutes a week - including non-walking activities (yoga/stretching/workout videos are preferred, but this is open to other activities like shovelling, swimming, or skiing) two times per week.
3. Spend 1 hour every week on something I've been putting off.
4. Make 13 new recipes this year

As per usual, I was successful if I did this for 80% of the year (so about 42 weeks, or 10 months, depending on the goal).

Goal #1, was, as I already mentioned, a failure.  My starting weight was 217.8, and my first weight of 2023 was 212.0 (though I did see a low of 206.6 in October).  But even though I didn't make it to my goal weight, I did manage to lose over 5lbs since January 2022, and that's something I am proud of!  I just checked my BMI, and it's down to 30.4 according to the National Heart, Lungs, and Blood Institute's calculator, down from 31.2 in January 2022!)

This also better positions me to keep up the momentum for 2023. :)

Goal #2 was also a failure.  I started the year off relatively strongly, but then got less active as the year went on (this was not helped by things like my back getting hurt from shoveling (which I mentioned in this post, but it looks like I never wrote more about it on here - whoops!), and my bout with vertigo over the summer).  By September, I'd only logged 13 weeks out of 35 where I did the full 150 minutes of being active.  Then I sort of stopped keeping track (of everything, not just workouts), but I know I wasn't super active every week in the fall, outside of doing some nice hikes and longer walks.

Goal #3 was a failure, but it was a deliberate failure (and it looks like I forgot to write about it here too - whoops!).  Like the exercise goal, I started off the year really strongly, managing to spend some time working on things I'd put off on 13 of the 17 weeks up until May.  But the more I was focussing on doing stuff I'd been putting off, the less I found myself able to do anything for myself for fun.  For example, if I started reading a book for fun, I started feeling anxious that I could be using that time to do something more productive I'd been putting off.  So for my own mental health, I decided to stop working on this goal.  

Goal #4 was one I completely forgot about until I started working on this post.  But it ended up a success anyway! I'd made 20 new recipes by September (and they were a mix of Chef's Plate recipes and things I found in my cookbooks).  And I made a few more recipes from Chef's Plate since then that I didn't write down in my book (I think about 6).  So this one ended up a great success! :D

So that was 2022.  I'm going to take some time to work on my goals for 2023 and post them in the next few days. :)