My Weekly Assessment

This past Saturday, I discussed my failures and my plan of action for redirecting some of my negative behaviors. I listed some goals for February, and I thought I'd assess myself after one week, and post this for accountability.



1. NO eating out until March. So far, so good. I had arranged a lunch date with my friend Candie several weeks ago, so I knew that would be the only exception. Other than that, Brad and I have cooked meals at home, and I've gone home each day for my lunch break to eat.

2. I will workout at least 5 days per week. Tee hee hee. I have made it to the gym once this week! It's been difficult to make it because of overtime, having a cold, and other things. Whenever I answer the phone at work it sounds a little something like this, "Dorth Greenbill Adibul Ospidul." (It's supposed to sound like North Greenville Animal Hospital). For what it's worth, though, I busted my booty in Zumba Tuesday night.

3. I will continue to write down EVERYTHING that goes into my mouth. I'll give myself an A+ for that goal. I have recorded very single day. Wednesday's lunch date was hard to determine, because I didn't know the exact points value of what I was eating, but I gave a generous guesstimate towards my meal. I tapped into allowance points a tad, but not by much.

4. I'm quitting my second part-time job. What a relief that was! As much as I like the good old Pier 1, it will be nice to have the extra time to pursue my exercising, house cleaning, errands, etc. As far as I know, this Monday was my last shift, but I'm going to call over the weekend just to make sure...I wouldn't want to be a "no show" on my last day.

5. I'm not going to step on the scale until March. I did cheat a bit on that. I knew that I was going to have to see my weight at the oh-so-dreaded obgyn appointment on Monday, so I figured I'd brace myself for whatever their scale said. My scale said I was down another 3 pounds! (I did skip my Friday weigh-in last week).

6. I'm going to drink at least 6 glasses of water a day!! I have increased my water intake, but it is still lacking in what it needs to be. I just hate having to flipping pee all the time!

7. I'm going to commit to logging on here every day for at least 30 minutes. I have stuck with this goal. I've realized that it takes me more than 30 minutes to read and comment on your blogs, but it's so much easier to have a designated time to catch up with everyone, rather than sporadically logging in.

Well, that's about it! Overall, not a bad week...and I'm beginning to realize that there are other ways to measure our progress instead of only focusing on the scale. Happy Friday, ya'll!