New Year, Renewed Goals

Happy New Year!  Can you believe it's 2013? 

The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my journey to getting my life clean, lean and serene.  It's simply what I'm doing.  The good, the bad and the oh so messy.  You're weclome follow along.  I hope you find inspiration here. 

I love New Year's Day because it give me the chance to start over.  A clean slate.  So with that in mind here are my renewed goals for the year:

• Deepen my faith and strengthen my relationship with God.  
• Strengthen my relationships with my family.
• Develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
• Get and keep my home clean and organized.
• Stretch my weekly budget using coupons.
• Develop a plan and prepare for emergencies.
• Complete at least 2 scrapbook layouts per week.

What are your goals?  B.

Foodie Friday – Monthly Menu Plan

Here is my menu plan for the month of March.  I’m a little embarrassed by all the dinner out and fast food days but such is the month of March for the Bradshaws.  With Spring Break, Girl Scouts, bowling events and duty week March is a crazy busy month.

If you see an item you would like the recipe for check Food.com.  I found many of the recipes there.  If you can’t find it there I will be glad to email you the recipe.  Just leave me a message.

Have a great weekend,

Britia

Health & Fitness Goals for 2012

Yesterday, I took a couple hours to sit down and write out my goals for 2012.  I won’t bore you with all my goals but here are a couple I will be blogging about in January. 

1. To exercise at least 30 minutes per day.  5 days per week throughout the year.
2. To develop the healthy habit of drinking at least 64 ounces of water per day by January 31^st.

If you have downloaded the 2012 Get It Together, Already Organizer/Cleaning Schedule you will have noticed the Health/Fitness Checklist down in the bottom left hand corner.  I have included check boxes for every 8 ounces of water you drink per day.  You will also find and area to record how many minutes of cardio work you put in and/or how many sets and reps of strength training you did that day.

Also in this area, are check boxes for how many serving of fruits and veggies you eat each day.  I will be discussing this later in the year.

I hope you find this new area helpful,

Britia

Restarting

Ok, so when I last posted on August 2nd, my Lean Goal of the Week was to drink 3 bottles of water a day.  Unfortunately I didn't follow through.  So today I'm restarting.  My Lean Goal of the Week is to drink at lest 3 bottles of water a day.

Lean Goal of the Week

Ok, so I've got a pretty good start on what I need to do to get my home clean.  Now, what am I going to do to get my body lean?  This is a little (a lot) harder because I don't enjoy dieting & exercise. LOL  Who does?  Anyway, let's focus, here.  I think I need to start with easy goals that I can work into my lifestyle.  So this week's Lean Goal of the Week is ...drum roll, please ... Drinking at least 60 ounces of water a day.  TaaDaa

I know the recommendation is to drink 8 glasses (or 64 ounces) of water a day but I don't like the taste of our local tap water so I have to buy bottled water.  So I buy this...

... and it come in 20 ounce bottles.  So if I drink 3 of these a day combined with what I drink when I take my meds I should get the 64 ounces I need each day.

Now I'm off to get a bottle of water and get started on that Laundry Room.

Have a great day,  B.

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