I'm actually planning out a list of things I have to get done this year, things to change, and things to improve. I'll post my list as soon as I'm done with it today :)
Anybody have any idea of theirs yet?
My resolutions:
-Take charge of my life. No one's telling me how to live it anymore.
-Get some new clothing (Seriously, I have size 14 jeans from the girls' department and ripped up sweatpants. I need some age-appropriate guy jeans and sweats that haven't been repaired multiple times).
-Pass more often.
-Stop being too afraid to come out to people who should know I'm not a girl.
-Keep my grades up and keep looking into colleges.
-Start saving up so I can transition once I'm living on my own.
-Find a therapist in the area covered under the family's insurance.
-Love myself for who I am.
1 get good a job (notice the word good, as in nice people and a fair asmosphear)
2 learn self defense (cause its a dangerous world we live in)
3 improve my japanese or other languarges.
4 keep saving up money (cause I will need it)
5 generally move forward and improve myself.
*Work on my fitness.
*Keep saving for top surgery (little by little adds up).
*Start looking at areas we might move to and make a decision.
*Stop worrying about things that I can't currently change.
I decided to not make any resolutions since I never keep any. But I've been wanting to get back into cooking and eating better. I used to cook awesome stuff for myself all the time, but somewhere along the way I got lazy and started eating nothing but pizza rolls and other frozen food. New Year's seems like a good time to start improving my diet.
It would be great to have my top surgery done some time this year. I save as much as I can already, so it's possible.
One of my goals for a while has been to get out of transitional housing and into a place of my own. That'll definitely happen this year.
-Lose 35 lbs by my birthday in June
-Read 25 books this year
-Get a job
-Get straight A's
Make it legal to be trans where I come from (Not alone of cause)
Other than that I have to stop being so depressed and do more stuff.
1) Go places by myself if I have no one to go with me
2) See a gender therapist
3) Eat more protein
4) Bulk up my arms and shoulders
5) Get better at Portuguese
6) Gain inner balance
Most of mine are pretty generic.
1) Quit smoking - okay so I've already broken that once today...
2) Bulk up more.
3) Enroll and go to sixth form as male.
One half of what would of been a fourth happened on Christmas, tell my parents (again) and my girlfriend about being trans, so it's just the parent's left to go now.
Cut down on carbs.
Get an exercise routine.
Hopefully lose some weight, I'd like to be somewhere around 110-120 pounds, I'm currently weighing about 145 pounds.
^^^ Awesome stuff so far guys!
Here's my list, still a bit incomplete though:
1. Marry my fiancee right after her birthday this summer.
2. Gain 30lb of lean muscle (get to 180lb bodyweight) and then cut down to 10-12% body fat.
3. Get a personal trainer certificate
4. Go on a road trip 2600 miles back to NY to show my fiancee (or wife at that time) my home city
5. Get into an Ivy League School (my biggest goal for this year)
6. Grow a beard :3 Plenty of time for that!
7. Possibly compete in a bodybuilding contest, or be ready for 2014 contest
8. Finish my art portfolio, and hold an art exhibition in the central library of Phoenix
1) Find a new job at a company on the HRC CEI list of 252 companies that provide full benefits for transition. I have a good job now, making six figures, but unfortunately I cannot transition there.
2) Try to budget 4 hours of Electrolysis per week to reach 200 hours by year end.
3) Sell a bunch of things on ebay to downsize severely for a smaller place. Old hobby stuff I don't want, etc.
4) Come out to my other son and some friends.
5) Walk a mile or more a day (most days).
6) Lose another 30 or 40 pounds in 2013 (in addition to the 65 I lost since June of 2012)
7) Hopefully find a way to get FFS and go full time by this time next year, which will be about one year on HRT.
8 ) Grow my hair long.
9) Continue to work on my female voice.
Get going on a regular gym regime.
Get on T.
Get an up to snuff portfolio on-line and start freelancing my art.
While also not getting behind in school...
1. Get a bank account
2. Get my blood pressure to a normal level
3. Lose weight
4. Exercise more and eat better
5. Get a job
6. Get my license and then a car and not be afraid to drive
7. Write more
I'll add more when I think of them.
1) Cut back on soda (Limiting to one can per week)
2) Cut back on eating out (Limiting down to twice a month)
3) Focus on eating more fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
4) Severely limit eating candy and random junk.
5) Move out of my sister's house, and move in with friends.
6) Get my name legally changed (Gender marker on license, Birth certificate, Social Security, and so on and so forth)
7) Put together and actually stick to a work-out schedule.
8 ) Get a part (Even a really itty bitty part) In a play at a community theatre.
9) Draw in my sketchbook at least once a day, even if it's a crappy drawing.
10) New job
11) Stalk down (I mean, "Meet," of course) Tom Hiddleston and get a hug.
So busy this year >.<;;
1) Lose about 15 pounds
2) Eat Healthier, Exercise regularly
3) Boost my confidence
4) Improve my art
5) Get a job
-Start working out & dieting (essentially losing weight)
-Find pants that actually fit
-Start therapy
-Become A+ certified (then find a decent job)
-Find an affordable apartment for me and future room mate.
1. Apply to do my P.H.D. and get in at the university of my choice to start this Autumn
2. Get on T
3. Get on the waiting list for top surgery
4. Do stand-up at an Open Mic in my town or in Newcastle
5. Start to eat properly
6. Get off antidepressants
7. Get something else published
8. See Dr. John in concert again
9. Make Stephen Fry fall in love with me and move into his flat
10. Curb my unrealistic fantasies about British comedians
big goals:
1. top surgery before the end of the year
2. move out from where I live now
3. buy a car
small goals
4. consistently eat less than 100 carbs per day
5. finish at least 1 round of P90X
6. work on learning a language at least 6 hrs a week (I'm trying to become fluent in Japanese - I have a long ways to go)
Mine is to lose the 40-50 pounds I put on recently by working out daily and eating right; also to get my upper body jacked so my torso is bigger than my hips.
For diet and exercise I just want to keep with what I've been doing. Last year was the first year in my life I actually accomplished my New Year's Resolution and I lost about 70lbs. I want to just keep eating like I did all last year and keep up the exercise I've been doing.
I want to write down all the books I read this year. Being a librarian in the winter, I don't have to concentrate on reading any more. I read plenty-- usually 4-5 books at a time-- but I want to keep track of them better.
I also launched this huge project I'm going to try my very best to keep up with where I created a journal for each of the six virtues from the Character Counts program used in Ohio schools (it just seemed easier to use a pre-written program). I'm going to try to spend two months (one month each and then going back and repeating) reflecting on and working on living each virtue. I work an extremely demanding summer job that's basically 11 weeks of pure, 60-hour-a-week, balls-to-the-wall, pressure-cooker leadership (that I love even when I hate) and I've found in the past that that molten forge really brings out both my strengths and my weaknesses. And last year I was really embarrassed that my bosses started noticing certain weaknesses in character that until then I wasn't even aware I had. So I really want to work on those this year, especially during the summer when it seems like every day the strength of my character is put to the test.
Other than that, just keep on the path... I've think overall I've been heading in the right direction. Just keep with it, go with the flow, and don't expect it all to happen overnight.
-get down to about 10 or 11% body fat
-come out to family
-lose 15 lbs or so
-bench 160 lbs
-get washboard abs (hehe, goofy I know)
-do another round of p90x
-get over my aracnophobia
-stay on paleo diet
-get a medal for ROTC
-And the most important...enlist in the Marine Corps
Gain 1stone (14lbs) of muscle in 3months. Already up 6lbs wahoo. And my BF% has dropped. Good start to the year so far and should be an amazing end :)
*positive thinking and all!*
1. Marry my financee
2. Get on T
3. Come out to my family
4. Eat better
5. Lose weight
6. Gain muscle
7. Be more active
8. Save money