Saturday, January 14, 2012

Mission Slim Possible

Riverton City is doing a weight loss competition called Mission Slim Possible that starts next Wednesday and I am all signed up to do it!  I'm really excited and motivated to lose some weight, maybe win a prize!

It cost 25 dollars and we weigh in every Wednesday til April 11th.  I love watching the Biggest Loser and now I get to be in a competition to lose this pregnancy weight!

I've got a plan worked out to lose around 2 pounds a week, so about 24 pounds by the 11th.  That'll get me halfway to my goal of 50 pounds lost to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight!
(this was taken halloween 2010.  my costume was a biggest loser contestant)

Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011 Reading Synopsis

As you probably know, every year I set reading goals.  This being the first of the year, I'll give a quick reporting of last year's final numbers.

Scriptures.  I set a goal to read the entire standard works last year.  Ilene and I also set a goal to read the Book of Mormon, together.  We met and exceeded both goals.  I also read the Book of Mormon in Spanish.  Total scripture chapters for me was 3,011 chapters, which totaled 5,371 pages.

Books.  I set a goal to read 24 books last year.  I also set a goal of 12,000 pages.  This goal was in addition to (not to include) the scripture books and pages.  I actually had a really good year this year with regard to books.  I finished 75 books this year, totaling 24,235 pages.  For specifics, the list of books and my ratings thereof can be found on the right column of this blog.  (I use a GoodReads.com tracking bar to track my latest 100 books, and below that I have the books listed with the date of completion and a total for each month.  I've done this since 2008, and you can see all the way back to then, if you're interested to know which books I'm reading and what I thought of each of them.)

Altogether, I read the equivalent of 86 books (with scriptures) and a total of 29,796 pages in 2011.  Care to join me this year?