Just One Month

I saw a meme on the internet that was focused on tackling objectives just one month at a time.  It is based on the concept of trying to eliminate something that is not useful in your life by focusing on one item at a time for a month.  The larger idea is that after going a whole month without something you have reduced your habit of doing so and should therefore make it easier to reduce that action or habit throughout the rest of the year.  Kyle and I decided January would be focused on not eating out.  It will be healthier and cheaper and should jump start our year.

The only bummer is that we can’t fully test our plan since we have vacation plans on January 19-21^st.  To counter balance this we decided to simply tack on a few extra days in early February.  Our initial hesitation was that we feared this would make us less social which was not the goal.  After some consideration we decided we can just invite friends over for dinner or go over to someone else’s house during the month. 

Based on our average habits we were eating out about 3-5 meals per week.  The potential both from a healthy lifestyle perspective and from a cost savings is huge.  I’ll of course keep you posted on our success towards our goal.  This will also force me to try my hand at some new recipes so we don’t get sick of eating the same thing over and over again. 

* The first 3 days have been a huge success! *