Weekly goal recap and new weekly goals

The week went pretty well, I am still tracking food on myfitness pal and having some decent success. I saw a slight loss on the scale this week would have been more had I got some more workouts in.


1-Log everything in to myfitness pal this week. I have had good and bad thoughts from this app over the years but I am going to give it a try again. I found a couple friends on there who I know will be supportive and deleted the negative from there. Logged food every day I didn't log food last Saturday or Sunday I watched what I ate but didn't need the extra stress of hang on while I log this during a day shopping with my cousin and then attending her bachelorette party.
2-Continue staying away from soda I have made it 15 days. Last week tested that with stress I really wanted a soda. Still soda FREE YAY!!!!! Stress levels were all time high with my office job this week but I still refrained. In fact it doesn't even sound good any more. I have my water all day, coffee in the mornings and then spark in the afternoon if I need a pick me up.

3-Get in a couple lunch time walks this week. Got in one on Tuesday before summer made an evil return and temps were 100 with heat index of 105 by noon each day. Saturday I did take the kids swimming and we were at the pool for 5.5 hours and I was in the water with the kids all but maybe 2 hours of that.

4-Bring my lunch daily which goes well with goal 3 if I walk at noon there's no time to grab fast food. So bring lunch and walk and its a win win. Success on that! Only had fast food once for lunch and made sure it was healthy.

5-Take time with each of the kids each night weather cooperating may do a few short bike rides. Time with kids yes, bike ride nope been way to darn hot they don't even want to go out. After a long day at school and hot school bus ride they are wore out when we get home.

6-Start stretching more regularly not liking that my flexibility is not what it was a few years ago. Improvements here for sure. I have taken time to stretch while at work trying to release tension from stress. Sat in the floor one evening while folding clothes and stretched my legs. I need to search some stretches and yoga poses I can do easily of a morning or evening.

Goals for this week:

1- Eat healthy 85% of the time for all meals and snacks. Finding that I am craving crap less and less which is good but now need to find some variety of foods to eat so I don't burn out on the few things I like.

2- Spend time with the kids find things to do with each of them every night.

3-Continue to stretch and research some new stretches and some yoga poses.

4-Track all foods and exercise in myfitness pal.

5-Try and find ways to manage stress better and not end up broke out in hives each day at work.

Weekly Goals

I haven't done a weekly goal post for quite sometime. But after realizing I had been putting everything and everyone else ahead of me its time to refocus. The weekend left me feeling like I have been run over a dozen times not real sure if I am getting sick or just the weeks of constant going non stop is catching up with me.

Goals:

1-Log everything in to myfitness pal this week. I have had good and bad thoughts from this app over the years but I am going to give it a try again. I found a couple friends on there who I know will be supportive and deleted the negative from there.

2-Continue staying away from soda I have made it 15 days. Last week tested that with stress I really wanted a soda.

3-Get in a couple lunch time walks this week.

4-Bring my lunch daily which goes well with goal 3 if I walk at noon theres no time to grab fast food. So bring lunch and walk and its a win win.

5-Take time with each of the kids each night weather cooperating may do a few short bike rides.

6-Start stretching more regularly not liking that my flexibility is not what it was a few years ago.

That's enough goals to get me started but not overwhelm me. Myfitness pal food tracking will be a challenge but one I am ready to tackle in the right positive way and not let it affect me negatively. If any of my readers is on myfitmess pal please find me would love to have more friends on there.

I will do a post later about my day with my cousin and her bachelorette party.

A brief catch up, pictures and soda........

Office job has been crazy busy before I left on vacation and even worse after I got back. But I have decided to take a mental break from the piles of files and post on my poor neglected blog....

The weekend before we left on vacation we had Blake's birthday party at the Fugitive Beach. We had an awesome time had a great pavillion that was right on the water and wasn't real crowded where we were. Blake loved it and it was a nice get away for all of us. I have tons of pictures on my camera that I will upload and post later but here are a few from my phone.

Here is Connie going down the big water slide its over 60 foot long. She was the first of many from our group to go down it. I passed not a fan of that kind of thing not to mention that location has bad memories....

The water is dyed blue and is sooo pretty.

Thankfully Blake wanted a simple cake. He really wanted a camo/hunting cake but liked the chocolate icing with orange writing and target on there. We had bought lots of pizza for everyone to eat as well.

 

 



On Blake's actual birthday I was off work, I had taken the Thursday and Friday before we left for vacation to destress and pack. So I took the kids to the local pool to swim both days!

 

Hard to believe Blake is 9!!!!! And Nathan will soon be 5!!!!!!!!
Blake had his last baseball game the night before we left, he definatly LOVES playing and can't wait until next season starts.

I got a Vienna paper on Thursday while in town and looking thru and came across something I didn't expect but was super sweet to see....

Connie thank you for the nice note to every one who helped that day. I am glad I was able to be there even tho it wasn't easy on any of us there and I wished so bad that I could have been able to do more for you and your family that day.

Saturday we left on vacation to Colorado. I haven't decided how I will do the posts for that yet may wait until all pictures are uploaded on to the computer then do a few breaking it up in to events and things we did while there.

And for soda.... Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE fountain Dr. Pepper and really want it when I am super stressed. However after a lot of thinking I have decided to give it up totally for now. Been having a big cup of coffee in the mornings with sugar and creamer but still figure one cup with sugar and creamer is less calories and icky ingredients than two big fountain sodas.

I haven't set a goal on how long I will stay away from soda just taking it one day at a time. I had my last soda Saturday morning and yesterday was the worst day I had awful headache! Monday night working all night and doing two back to back transfers I wanted one soooo bad. Thankfully the two people I was with don't drink soda which helped tons.

I also want to find a race to start training for something that will challenge me and make me find a plan, would love to find a friend who can help keep me accountable and be supportive and push me when needed.