Friday!

Well, I'm still here, and I'm feeling very grateful for the mini-challenge Endurer is doing over the next two weeks. It's helping me to keep a small goal in mind and not get overwhelmed by how far I still have to go. I did pretty well yesterday, and I'm doing well so far today.

Wish me luck over the weekend!

cookie monster

That's been me this past four days. Yikes. On Saturday I went whitewater rafting. TONS of fun. I had a great time and highly recommend it. We went on the South Fork of the American River (near Sacramento, CA). Then TOM arrived on Sunday and I proceeded to eat unhealthy food and not exercise AT ALL for the rest of my days off. So I'm back at work today with the best intentions, but already I went out for lunch (Thai food) and therefore didn't walk. Blah. I have my kickboxing class tonight, so that's good.

I'm really feeling funky though. My weight was up to 163 today. Yuck. My tummy feels enormous right now. I'll just keep working on getting my mojo back!

hanging in there

Thanks for all your wonderful and supportive comments. I think I'm going to try Jenny in London's recommendation to schedule in my exercise time. I do usually get to walk on my lunch break at work, but that hasn't been enough and I keep missing my exercise classes and being to lazy to run on the weekends. Since I work at a university, we get new school year planners every Fall, so I'm going to go pick mine up right now and start scheduling both my study time and my "me" time.

Tomorrow I'm going river rafting and I think we'll be doing some swimming too, so that'll be good exercise. And I have a five day weekend, so I'll make sure to do some kind of exercise each day. 

Thanks again for all the support. It means so much to me!

Feeling discouraged

Weight is up today. Not much, but still. I haven't been eating very well lately. I'm just not feeling motivated. I'm REALLY stressed out over studying for the GRE and getting ready to fill out grad school applications. I feel like I just can't take as much time for exercise and cooking. Blah. I don't know how to balance everything.

Today I will:

1. Eat only one sweet

2. Drink 64oz of water

3. Walk on my lunch

5. No overeating

Thanks for always being so supportive!

Finally Friday!

Yesterday I did much better with my goals.

1. NO sweets - success! This one was VERY hard, but I did it!

2. Go to bed before 10:30pm - Nope, not until a little after 11pm

3. Drink 64oz of water - yes!

4. Don't overeat -yes!

So I feel pretty good about the day, overall. I went for a walk on my lunch yesterday too, so I even got some exercise in. Today I'll be walking on my lunch again, and my goals are:

1. Go to bed before 11pm

2. Drink 64oz of water

3. Only one sweet

So there you have it! The recipe for a perfect Friday. :)

No Title Thursday

So I didn't do so hot with yesterday's goals:

1. Only one sweet - ummm... or 5 cookies

2. Go to bed before 11pm - yes, lights were out by 10:30

3. Drink 64oz of water - Not nearly. I think I maybe got 32oz

In spite of this, weigh in today showed a small loss. But I've got to get back on track today!

Today my goals will be:

1. NO sweets

2. Go to bed before 10:30pm

3. Drink 64oz of water

4. Don't overeat

I'll be going for a walk in just a little bit, so that will be my exercise today. I'm babysitting a friends kids tonight, so I don't get to go to my kickboxing class, which is disappointing. I'm hoping I can go this Sunday, but the class is at 9:45am on the other side of town. I'm not so good at getting up and out of the house at a reasonable hour on the weekends.

Anyway, I hope you're all doing well! I've been reading blogs, even if I haven't been commenting. Happy Thursday everyone! It's almost the weekend!

Blah Wednesday

I haven't been able to think of anything to blog about all week! I still can't really think of anything to say, but I know I do better with my eating, etc when I'm on here regularly.

So let me just set goals for today.

1. Only one sweet

2. Go to bed before 11pm

3. Drink 64oz of water

The water will be hard since it's almost 4pm and I've only had a couple of glasses so far. Oops. I've done ok this past week, but not much exercise due to being sick. I did walk and do water aerobics yesterday and walked a bit today, but that's it. I'm still hoping for a loss for the challenge!

Go pink team!

blobby Saturday

I'm still sick today, but getting a little better. I haven't exercised since last Monday though! I'm hoping I'll feel up to going for a walk (at least!) tomorrow. Today I've just been sitting around watching movies. I hate being sick!

Hope your weekends are going a bit better.

sick day

Yuck! I feel awful today. I'm home sick from work with a cold. My head is all stuffy and my nose is dripping. Not a lot of fun! I've just been sitting around watching the Olympics, blowing my nose, and drinking tea.

But anyway, on the happy side of things, my weight was down today. Too bad it wasn't my official weigh in! Oh well. I'll just get it even lower by next Thursday.

Hope you're all doing better than I am!

romeo, romeo...

Well, the Shakespeare production last night was fantastic.  I saw Romeo and Juliet. It was the first time I'd seen that play performed live, and I was very impressed.

Anyway, weigh in today is 161.4. Just .2 down from last week, but I'll take it. I'm not feeling that great today. Still got a mild cold. Blah.

As far as yesterday's goals:

1. Only one sweet - yes, a vegan cookie while watching the play

2. No overeating - yep

3. Bedtime before 11pm - nope. we didn't get home until about 11pm, and I didn't get to bed until after 12. whoops.

So today my goals are:

1. No sweets, even at the party for my coworker tonight

2. Eat a relatively light dinner, with lots of veggies

3. Bedtime by 10pm

Ok, well I'm going to check up on all of you, post my weigh in to the challenge (Go Pink!) and get back to work.