I plan on streaking in 2016

 NO, not that kind...lol. But I got your attention right?

Seriously though I do plan on doing some streaking. I am wanting to set up a few things and see if I can start a winning streak or two.





First thing I want to work on...
365 days of goal crushing water consumption. Whatever the water goal is, 64 ounces, 75, 100 ounces...I want to meet or exceed that goal everyday!

Second thing...
365 days of journaling.  Every morning I start with 20 minutes of quite time and journaling to put my mind in the right place. If my head is not in the game and clear...I will not succeed. I know this from past experiences.

Third thing we are streaking this year....
52 blog minimum...that is one a week every week in 2016. How can I expect to hone my craft if I am practicing weekly at least. Now there could be more...I will finish this year with 45 this being the last one of 2015, the next one is a BIG ONE!!! See this post makes 99 posts, the next one is number 100!!! I have to do that one right and what better way than to make it the first blog of 2016!!!

The fourth and final thing I am streaking this year...
Step goal met for the day. I want 365 days of step goal met. So I am tweaking the phases and how I want to do this to make sure that I am not setting myself up failure. Right now I have my goal set at 4500...I am leaving it there till Dec 31st. On the 1st I am going to 5000. Every 21 days after that I will bump the step amount up. They say that if you do something for 15 minutes a day every day it will become a habit in 21 days. So I will be kitchen dance partying/stomping it out every day to make sure I hit step goal.



Three out of four of these streaks have a major goal attached....I want to come off of all meds!! The pain, the water...all of them. So 365 days of focus on me so I can be a better wife, mom, student, and volunteer.

Now yes I have goals of hitting these streaks....the only way to hit them is one day at a time. Which is where my focus is, just for that day I will drink my water, hit my steps, work on that weeks blog topic, and get in my journaling. By breaking it down to just for today, the days will add up and I will be where I want to be this time next year.

Now that I have played with my writing headphones and all I am gonna go enjoy the rest of the day!!! Merry Christmas and Thanks again for another awesome year!!! 2016 is shaping up to be the best yet for In the midst!!!

2015 wrap up and goal setting for 2016

March 2015

June 2015

December 2015

 As I sit with 11 days left in 2015 I went looking for pictures to put side by side from January to December...I couldn't find one. The closest I found was February. I also found this few others that I wanted to share. This year was not so much about the physical weight loss as the emotional baggage and weight I shed. 
These are just a few random pictures that I pulled and while I was looking, I had an epiphany. From Dec of 2014 till around June/July of 2015 there are few pictures of me. I am not talking selfies, I am talking pictures.
I was miserable and it showed in how I carried myself, not just in the pictures, but there was a certain, my give  a damn is busted in my attitude. Then I really committed to OA, I processed some serious emotional things and there was a shift, I started to come out of my shell again.

For many years after a messy break up in my early 20's, two rough relationships through the rest of my 20's, losing my mother...there was a lot of reasons I was sad and withdrawn.

Now that I have dealt with that and I am not dwelling on the past, I have also made some realizations and can't wait to carry some of this over to 2016!!

February 2015

The very first thing I am laying down in 2016...I'm in the best mental state of my adult life...I am happy!! SO if you negative, if you always looking for the bad...I will be leaving you this side of the calendar. If you are always the victim and never take responsibility for your issues..yup this side of December is for you too! I am too head strong and I have fought to much to get to this point and I will go kicking and screaming back! So the best way to prevent it...is change up that circle as needed....deuces to the bad only positive from this point forward!

 I have also realized I really do have the ability and motivation to do anything I wanna do....I quite smoking and I have maintained a GPA above a 3.7 this year. I have the attitude to carry me through even when everyone says you won't do!

I intend to spend 2016 doing what I have found I love doing, teaching and spending time volunteering with the chapel. I am not ready to go back to church on Sundays but I will show up to work when needed...I feel another blog coming on that one.

 But this year has been about destroying the walls and digging through the ashes...this has been my phoenix year. I am no where near the same recluse I was in January. So what does that mean for 2016?


Well here are the goals:










1. 3 days a week of exercise....just kidding!

The main goal for 2016 is to make the outside match the inside. I also will finally de-clutter  the house and simplify things! This is a transition year as hubby will be working on getting out of military and I will be going from stay at home mom and college student to working college mom. We also will have a preschooler by the fall....


So tho keep up with all these changes here is what I have going...Phases.

January will kick off phase 1:

Jan 1-28

• 6500 steps a day!
• Hair and make up done at least 4 days a week
• 100 ounces of water a day
• work out 3 days a week with Just Dance
• Gym 2 nights a week
• MAINTAIN THE HOUSE!!  

Just for today I am gonna keep working on getting things lined up and in place to have a successful 2016 and counting down the days till family lock down with some unplugged honest conversation and fun!! Kiddo has 4 or 5 board games for Christmas!!!! Game night pics to come!