This morning I received an email back from my program’s graduate secretary. After trying quite unsuccessfully to get ahold of my policy paper professor to see if he received my final paper, I emailed the graduate secretary to ask her opinion about what I should do. She’s been great throughout my two years at MSU, so I trusted her to help me if she could. Well, she managed to get ahold of my professor and told me that he has received my paper.
Really now, how hard would it have been for him to email me that himself? Or to click the stupid button that comes up when you open a message that has a read receipt request attached?? Or to respond to my voicemail message??? I am truly bewildered. At least now I know that it’s in, and he’s working on grading it. That means that I should officially graduate December 2009, unless he decides that my paper sucks so much that it’s not worth a passing grade. Now that would be depressing.
Health Goals
With that tiny detail out of the way, I think it is well past time that I start working on my health goals. I have not been at all diligent about them for the longest time, and I’m afraid that my health, body, and self-image have suffered for that. I remind myself that there is no point in regretting things passed, and look toward the future.
October 2009: 218.2 lbs
To start, I am 5′5 and weigh 218.2 lbs. According to my height and build a healthy weight range for me would be 135-150 lbs. My personal healthy weight goal is 145 lbs, or a loss of 73.2 lbs. My timeline to reach this goal is by the end of my 101 in 1001 Challenge, July 16, 2012. That actually averages out to less than 2.5 lbs per month. I think I can do that.
Other health related goals that I will be working toward include (#6) being able to run a mile in 15 minutes or less, (#7) completing the 100 Pushups Challenge, and (#8) completing Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred. In other words, over the next 900-some-odd days I will be working on losing weight, and increasing my endurance and strength.
To attain my goals I will be tracking points with Weight Watchers Online, using various workout DVD’s that I own, and hopefully participating in some fitness classes and personal training sessions. With finances being a little tight right now, and the weather deadheading toward Michigan winter, I will be sticking with the DVD’s at present.
Although I will not be tracking my points or daily food and exercise here explicitly, every week I will do an weigh-in update on Tuesday to summarize my week.
And that’s the plan. 2.5 lbs a month. Ready-set-go!
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