Let me introduce you to my little friend. The Moleskine Wellness Journal. When I say I am really excited about this, it is a huge understatement. So humor me and my nerdiness. Not only did I take many many pictures of my new love to share with you, I also had my ideas for organizing the book on post-it notes that I reviewed for a few days before committing to anything.

Yes, I’m a nerd. And I love it.

I debated a lot on buying this book because all the ones I found were sealed. I’m so glad I did. And I wanted to let you all know how awesome it is since you have no other way to see inside.

I also love this glue stick. Perfect. Holds well. No wrinkling. Just perfect. You need one. Or several. I just found it in my kitchen drawer.

This is the front inside cover. My favorite picture of Nate and I. And pictures we drew of our future children many, many years ago. I guess I will have a fat, scary baby with a mouth full of teeth. You can guess which one Nathan drew, eh? Those pictures have been used as a bookmark forever. Now they have a home.

The book came with several pages of built in nutritional info. AND 2 pages to add your own. Brilliant. Of course, the first thing I added were the important coffee-related items.

The first section is for personal goals. I love this picture of us. It was on the side porch of some house in downtown Frankfort while we were waiting on the Sara Watkins show.

Goals are broken down into weeks and months. 54 weekly goals, a year’s worth of monthly goals, and several pages headed with “breakthrough moments.” I’m excited for those. (Random info: Nathan is playing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” on his mandolin as I’m typing this. He’s a Christmas nut.)

I love the Exercise Log section. I decided to stick a copy of our half-marathon training schedule here.

And this is what the daily log looks like. (I spelled “Wii” as “Wiii” every time I wrote it today. I don’t know what’s up with that.) I really like this breakdown. Enough info but not too much. I circled the sun today. It was very very hot. At 10:30 am. Welcome to Kentucky.

Then there’s the Diet section. A before picture and a current picture. Just made sense.

I also really like the layout of the food diary pages. I’m subtracting exercise calories in the notes section at the bottom of the page.

On the first page of the General Health section, I glued in two graph paper pages I downloaded from the Moleskine Template site. This is where I’ll chart my weight. Because nothing motivates me like a graph trending downward.

I recorded today’s weight. Blech. More on that tomorrow.

Next was a section originally labeled Events. I decided to change it to Races. It has pages to record date/event/result. I like that I’ll be able to compare times of races in one neat place.

I put my Lexington Half Marathan collage on that page.

The next tab is for Inspirations. The pages are blank other than “Inspiration” at the top. I’m not sure what all I’ll collect here. I’m sure there will be plenty. And this is a great start.

The rest of the tabs were blank and are all my own creation!

I really like the next section: recipes. I don’t plan to write down entire recipes here, but ingredients for recipes. So in case I decide that I want to make Red Lentil Curry and need to stop at the store on the way home, I will know what all I need without having to run home to my cookbook first. I don’t plan on doing a lot of backtracking, I’ll just write them down as I make them.

I’m not sure what to call the section with the shopping bag. (I have serious book commitment issues.) Here I downloaded the weekly schedule template and glued it in. My eating plan will go here. I do so well when I plan and I stick to my plan when I have access to it. Again, it will be awesome having all of this in one place instead of the plan getting thrown away at the end of the week.

I love that there was a label for music. I’ll fill this up with playlists and lyrics and stuff. This may be the most exciting tab.

The rest of the book is filled with blank pages. Some divided into sections…

..and some that are completely blank.

Oh, and the compartment in the back. I have already found things to make it cozy.

The book came with all three sets of stickers on the left-hand side. Yay! Labels for the tabs. Smiley faces and frowny faces and encouragments and flowers and people doing yoga poses and”love this!” and “hate this!” and “!” Just so exciting! I also have some lined page downloads (for when I feel like really writing) and my stickers for my training schedule.

Oh? My training schedule, you ask? Yes. Here it is. In it’s full glory. Laminated and all. I earned my sticker today, even though there wasn’t anything on there.

So now that my nerdiness has surprised even myself, I have a question for you. Have I missed anything obvious? I still have 3 tabbed sections with no direction at this point…