Nothing better than to start the blog with a list of resolutions for the next year 🙂 In one year I’ll come back with the goals that I achieved =)
1 – Lose at least ~10 kg (or ~22lb)
I’m obese, as harsh as those words can be. This is my top one goal for 2025. To be fair, I already started in 2024. I avoided the scale for months this year, and when I finally weighted myself again, the shock: I was weighting 89kg (~196lb), which is a BMI of 34 and means obese (I’m 160cm or 5`3″)! It was not my biggest shape (I had obesity problems as a teenager, I lost weight but regained many times), but it was very close to it. I started to cry on my bed and decided to finally start going to the gym. That was back in August. After 3 months at the gym, I lost 3 KG (~6lb) and I was at 86 KG (~190 lb), and then back in November I started to count my calories. One month later I’m 2 KG (~4.4 lb) down, as I’m writing in December 17th, I weight 84KG (~185lb), and I want to get to 82KG (~180lb) before the end of the year. My goal is 2kg per month and I hope to reach ~75kg (or ~165lb) by May 15th, which is the date of my birthday! And around ~70kg (or ~154lb) by the end of the year!
2 – Participate in the Adidas Run 2025
The “Berlin City Night” run. The reason I want to participate in this specific one is because many colleagues will be there. My participation is tied to my May weight loss goal: for now I’m afraid of running because I’m too heavy and it could be worse for my joints (I already have broken my ankle before!). If I achieve my goal by may, I’ll register for the run (the 5km one, of course) and start to train for it!
3 – Swim across a lake this summer!
I want to learn how to swim better. I already got some swimming classes starting January! I can kind of swim but I’m afraid when the waters are deeper than my height. I want to learn it better.
4 – Freeze my eggs
Even though I’m not 30 yet (I’ll be 29 in 2025, I’m 28 now) I decided that I want to freeze my eggs this year. I’ll do it after the summer. I know this can probably slow down my weight loss (since women tend to blow with the medication and so on) but I think it will be temporary. The reason I’m doing this year is because my company offers a benefit for fertility treatments (including freezing eggs) and I think it is a good age for it.
5 – Go to Indonesia!
I want to participate in the International Youth Esperanto Congress that will happen close to Jakarta this year, but also visit Bali. Let’s see how it goes!
6 – Improve my German
I have the B1 German certificate but I wish to speak it as well as I speak English, for example. I’m thinking of doing an advanced course this summer with the Bildungsurlaub (a right that German workers have to take up to 10 days of vacation every two years to do a course).
7 – Read at least 10 books
The title says all! I’ll try to come back and review the books I read in 2024 in this blog later on!
8 – Write around 20 posts for this blog
Since I started this blog, I don’t want to abandon it, so I want to write at least 20 posts to it.
9 – At least 100 days of exercise
I tried to achieve this goal this year, but so far I got “only 82 days” (might get closer by the end of the year) but my first half of the year is the main one to blame this for.