Cami, you rock :D

And I need to be hit with one. :P Seriously, my week sucked. I was mindful of my goals but didn't really do them. The reason being, whether good or not is still up for debate, I had so much going on last week I could barely think straight. First was work, we had an abundance of patients due to closing early for the holiday. Then a snow storm hit. Add in to the normal daily activities the fact that we still had a bunch of loose ends to finish up for our big cousin sleepover and family Christmas party. So I spent hours and hours putting things together (like prepping blankets for our family service project and I still ended up having to do them all myself minus 4 - making about 15 blankets this week should be interesting) which wore me out. We had friends stop in from out of town, which was nice but I got behind. The cousin sleepover was a huge hit and a lot of fun but exhausting (having 9 extra kids running around does that). Plus, I went Black Friday shopping so I was exhausted the next day. Then we had to get family pictures with all the extended family (this was easier said then done) and then quickly finish getting things together for the Christmas party we were in charge of immediately following pictures and lunch. And then we came home and went to bed as early as we could after spending time with family so we could get up the next day to go to a farewell. The drive, one way, that is usually about 40 mins but took 1 hour and 20 mins because the roads were terrible. By the time we got home I was ready for a bath and bed.

And that was just part of my week. *sigh* Needless to say, I'll be keeping my same goals for this week and trying again. Where's a rock when you need one...

How did I do???

So, here's my report for the week...

I didn't have ANY dessert until Thursday....and even then, (since my Thanksgiving dinner was a little interesting, and they DIDN'T have pie.....I didn't really splurge.) I had a few sweets over the weekend, but kept it to one a day. I exercised everyday except Sunday.....and overall feel like I ate very well.

This week I'm going to only have 3 treats all week (haven't decided what days yet) and I'm going to workout everyday again.

This week I'm going to focus more on drinking more water and eating less snacks. We'll see how I do.

I'm working right now on losing about 2 inches around my waist. Hopefully, it will help me stay focused during this Holiday season with so many sweets around!

My goals

I've been trying to come up with good goals for the week. I know I have to start somewhere but it's hard. I don't want to be too aggressive and then not want to do anything later yk? So I'm going to start off easy. I have three goals this week: first, drink 64 oz of water 6 out of the 7 days, second, workout at least 3x this week, and third, go to bed before 11pm at least 3x this week. If I can get these three down, I think I'm on my to becoming healthier. :)

Cami's Sunday night goals....

So, I'm kind of a moron, and typed all my health goals for the week on my other blog. Duh. But...I'm too lazy to type it again, so I left it and I'll leave you a link to my other blog if you care to see my goals for the week!

www.funfamilyoffour.blogspot.com

Thanks.

Cami

Hello :-)

Cami invited me to join awhile ago, but I haven't posted an introduction yet. My name is Michelle, I have three children and I've been married 8 years. About 4 years ago I decided I wanted to be healthier so I invited two other friends, also fellow moms, to start running with me. We ran our first 5k that year and it was amazing! Since then, I've run another 5k and a 10k last year. I was doing really well keeping up with my running/exercising but when I became pregnant with #3 things have been very different.

I was pregnant my last year of college and not only was my pregnancy hard, my classes were too. I had my baby during my last semester and a month later I had to do my final clinical rotation. Having to work 40 hours while my husband (who took that same semester off from school so I could work and our kids didn't have to be in daycare) took care of our 1 month old and two other children, was harder than I ever imagined. We made it work but I was so stressed from being gone so much and the class/work load I had, exercising wasn't on my to do list.

The stress from my rotation ended but then I was stressed with studying for my last final before graduation. I made it through and graduated though, so yay! But I was tired from everything, I felt I needed a break. So again, I didn't exercise much, I just wanted to veg and not have to worry about studying and enjoy being home with my family. So I did, for about two months until I needed to study for my licensure exam. More stress. But I finished with that and passed my test, yay!

During this whole time, I kept telling myself, I'll start exercising and being more healthy as soon as this is finished...as soon as this is finished...ok, as soon as THIS is finished. Yeah, nothing came of it. This whole year I've let stress eat me alive and I've totally compensated by eating. After having my baby, I was under my pre-pregnancy weight and it felt awesome. But today, I'm ashamed to say I've put on 27 lbs. I about choked when I got on the scale. Who puts on 27 lbs in 9 months?!

So that's my story and here I am. I realize I have two main problems when it comes to my weight. The first, stress keeps me from wanting to be healthy. The second, after a long day, I feel like I deserve a reward so after the kids go to bed is when I treat myself. The first I'm doing really well with. Instead of having a huge to do list that never ends, I've been getting things done so they're not hanging over my head. That's made a huge difference, doing things sooner rather than later. But the second thing, I haven't figured out how to get that out of my head. Any suggestions there would be great. I'm ready to not be so unhealthy. I want to feel better about me and right now, I don't like myself very much.