Excited!

So glad this is back up and running. I so needed the extra help. I am starting back on seriously tomorrow. I need to get my eating back under control, it has been terrible.

I joined the gym, but really only for the treadmill. I am miserable walking outside in the cold.

My goals are:

Monday/Wednesday/Friday to do P90X at 5am and when the kids get on the bus to go to the gym and walk/run on the treadmill for an hour.

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday to do P90X at 5am (my kids are up at 6-6:30a and it does not matter the day)

I am going to follow the old Weight Watcher Point System for my eating and lay off sweets. We are having family pictures at the end of February and I have my 25 year Class Reunion at the end of June. So I need to get my behind in gear. I truly am excited for all of you and hope you reach your goals too!

New week

Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday, I think I might have a tummy bug and haven't felt up to it. So I'm going to make this quick. I'm keeping my goals from last week (drinking more water, going to bed early, work out at least 3x) and adding one this week - get rid of all HFCS. For the most part, I've been doing really well with this and not buying things that have it in it. We've already switched a few things like our brand of syrup has changed and so has our ketchup. And guess what I noticed the other day? My 100% whole wheat bread has HFCS in it!! I couldn't believe it! Who does that?? So I'm definitely going to be scouring our food to make sure we don't have any more that are "hidden" with HFCS. :P

Here we go again....

I feel like I did pretty well again this week. I could still drink more water, but I HATE having to go to the bathroom all the time! Ugh. I stuck with the 3 treats and I'll keep that goal again. I'd like to cut it down even more, but it's too difficult with so much going on during the holidays. I'll stick to 3 for now, and if I exercise again everyday I'm okay with allowing myself 3 treats. There's always a happy medium, right??? So..here's my plan:

No treats Monday
Tuesday- I'll have stuff since it IS my birthday!!!!
Wednesday nothing
Thursday- yes...(I have a RS enrichment progressive dinner...no way I'm passing up on THAT dessert!)
Then I'll pick one day in the weekend to have something. Wish me luck! (Is it weird that I plan out my treats for the week ahead of time??!)

Exercising has become a little more of a challenge since our Elliptical broke, but we (James and I)have found ways to be creative. I think I ran about 2 miles one morning, right in my bedroom, watching 24. Not my favorite thing to do...(Running in place or in a bedroom), but sometimes when the work-out tapes get too repetitive, it's nice to change up the routine. I think I'm going to be getting a 4-month Gym pass to the College Gym here in town, with my neighbor starting in January. That way we can get into shape together, and by summer we'll be able to run outside again! (I absolutely HATE running outside in the winter time!!!)

So....3 sweets and exercise Monday-Saturday are my main goals again. Okay, okay, I'll watch the white flour again too!!!

Much better week

This past week was by far better than my previous week, woohoo! I did really good with going to bed earlier, almost every night. My water intake was a lot better, even though I don't like the increase in bathroom trips lol. What I did find interesting though, was that if I drank a lot of water one day, but hadn't gotten to it the next day, my body actually craved more water. Interesting huh? The one thing I didn't do as well on was exercising, I did that one day instead of my three. But I'm proud of myself for doing at least that (baby steps right?). :) I'll post my new goals on Monday!

How did everyone else do?

mid-week reminder

SO, I'm tired of having to "suck it in" all the time. Wouldn't it be nice just to be able to sit on the floor and not worry about the rolls hanging over the jeans? Or put on a cute shirt and not have to wear something bulky over the top to cover up the flaws? I am ready to STAY motivated!!!! Sometimes in the middle of the week it gets harder and I need an extra reminder of what I'm working for. Do I want to be healthy and thinner more than I want that shake? YES! I just need to remember that when I'm staring it in the eye. These updates are helping me too, Michelle. It's nice to have to be accountable to someone for what I've done in the week! Good luck this weekend! We can DO IT!

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!