August Goals

The nail polish I picked out for July. :)

I was so thrilled to have such great success with my July goal of doing yoga for my back twice a week! So now it's time to build on that success for August. I really think having a reward to look forward to really motivated me to get that time in on the mat. So I have to make sure that I come up with some equally compelling goals (and maybe tweak rewards for the six month weight goal).

But first, the weight goal...my period is currently happening. I will wait until next week to weigh myself (and see how I did with my weight goal for July).

Alright, so the number one thing that I want to make sure I do is maintain what I've built. So I'm going to give myself a reward for continuing to do yoga twice a week, though I do want to open it up so it's not just the yoga for my back routine that I've been doing.  If I continue to do yoga twice a week through August, I will get me a thing I want in a game I've been playing for a number of years. :)

I think my main goal for the month of August will be to get back to walking. While I do walk from my car to work, which is a few minutes, this will not count; I want to go for a dedicated walk for fun that is longer than five minutes. But, as I have diabetes, I know that walks (and other exercise) can easily get derailed due to low blood sugars, so I don't want to penalize myself for only being able to walk for 30 minutes due to a low rather than an arbitrarily longer length of time, so I will not set a specific time (though obviously, if I can walk for an hour, that is better than 30 minutes). I will also give the caveat, due to the heat wave we've been experiencing, that if it's too hot, something like swimming is an okay substitute. 

So, rewards.....I really liked the music one, so if I go for a decent walk once a week for two weeks in a row, I will get myself 5 new songs on iTunes. And 4 weeks in a row gets me a Solitudes album I want. (I love having Solitudes albums playing when I want to relax - I used to play them all the time while having bubble baths at my old place. Unfortunately my new place doesn't have a good tub for bubble baths).

In terms of the weight goal, I didn't like that I had to buy the YogaBody Masterclass ahead of time; it didn't feel like much of a reward since I had it and could watch it anytime (though I kept to the spirit of the class being a reward, and so  have not yet watched it). I also don't think that rewarding myself with information I'd like to have for helping me get healthier is a good plan - I'd be better off making these rewards more fun as well, so they are something to legitimately look forward to. 

So with all of that said, if I make my August weight goal of 224lbs (which I will most likely be checking sometime in September, as my period will probably be right around the beginning of September, too), I will get myself a movie I want from Google Play. And yes, I already know which one I want. ;)