October Report Card

October Report Card

Let’s just get straight to the grades here….

Teal –

1.Log food in myfitnesspal EVERYDAY. You should follow me! I will follow you, we can keep each other accountable! I am teal0996 on there. 

B: pretty half and half here and this will continue to be a goal!

2.  Wake up 4 mornings per weekday and workout, even if it is just 30 minutes. Choose 1 day to take off.

C: on the waking up but A on the working out 4 times a week! I have been having issues waking up, I had a week of time where I kept waking up at 1:30am and was up for about 3 hours so getting up at 5:30 was not going to work. I seriously hope this gets better and has only happened a few more times. I have either gone at night or done my yoga videos at home!

3.  Prep meals. I use to do this religiously and haven’t… hence the Mexican food twice in one day!

B: Sorta? I didn’t prep like I used to, I more or less bought the stuff and took it all to work and made my lunches there. However, I would do that and decide I didn’t want to eat any of it and ate other things instead on some of the days. I did make one run to Fuzzy’s and one run to Quiznos (which I left on top of my car as I drove off). Other than that I did pretty well with this!

4.  Minimum of 64oz of water daily. I need more because I am so active but I am not even getting 64… must fix.

A+: Pretty much nailed this thanks to my ginormous Buccees’s cup and the 800 water bottles at work!

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5.  If I am going to eat a cookie it can only be 1 and when I say cookie I also mean any other sugary treat that I feel like I can’t live without.  Just 1, not 4, not 7, not the entire box, just 1. I say this because if I say absolutely no to these treats I really will eat them all.

B: Well I can say I really didn’t eat any cookies, I did eat ice cream and Peanut butter M&M’s shhhhhhhhh but even with that said I have done much better on the sweets part. That was what I wanted to eat for a while, all bad things. The sight of asparagus one day made me gage and my usual salad for lunch was gross. I am having to employ a ton of will power here but it seems to be getting better!

 [Side note: isn’t it kind of funny to see this last goal now that you know Teal is pregnant??]

Beth – 

1.  Pretty much since I’m in that book club now and I have a reading goal for this year on goodreads.com I’m just going to make y’all read every month about my goals.  I’m super pumped because the third book in the Divergent series comes out this month and I canNOT wait to read it! :)  So this will at least be one of my two books to read this month.

F: A big giant F for this one.  I did not complete any books this past month. WHO AM I?!?! I started both Serena and Allegiant, but haven’t finished either. So disappointed in myself. *hangs head in shame*

2.  I’m still working towards an organized home… :)  Will I ever accomplish this? I have a collection of boxes in three different places right now and my goal is to go through them, throw things away and either put the leftovers in the attic or some other place they can live.

C-: I’m going to go with that grade because there were 5 boxes total and I cleaned out 3 of them. Ugh, I need to get rid of more stuff!  I also feel like this will never stop being a work in progress for me.

3.  This goal basically let’s you know I did not meet a goal last month, so again this month I shall make a window treatment for at least one of the three windows in my house I have fabric to do said project! I’m going to do it!

A+: I DID IT! Like I said I have three windows I was needing (and wanting) to make window treatments for and follow in my sister’s DIY steps from her blog.  I have one not very wide bathroom window that I had forgotten to get fabric for, one kind of regular width laundry room window that I had fabric for and then one large kitchen window that I have fabric for.  I went with the medium size project here and got my laundry room window accessorized with it’s very own cornice and thanks to Brent for helping this shorty hang it up!  I’m now re-thinking if a cornice for our kitchen window is really the way to go.

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4. Yoga! Is it annoying that I keep just repeating goals?! I really want to make sure I’m getting in yoga during my marathon training because I know it’ll be soooo beneficial come December 8th when I’m taking on those 26.2 miles at Dallas Marathon!

B-: I went four times. Haha, hooray, for that number not being 0.

How did your October goals go??

October Goals

October Goals

Don’t worry we’ll let you know how we did on those September goals soon, but in an effort to not delay putting out there what we want to accomplish in October we are getting these goals out there to the world.  Time to get busy!

Teal – 

1.  Log food in myfitnesspal EVERYDAY. You should follow me! I will follow you, we can keep each other accountable! I am teal0906 on there. 🙂

2.  Wake up 4 mornings per weekday and workout, even if it is just 30 minutes. Choose 1 day to take off.

3.  Prep meals. I use to do this religiously and haven’t… hence the Mexican food twice in one day!

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4.  Minimum of 64oz of water daily. I need more because I am so active but I am not even getting 64… must fix.

5.  If I am going to eat a cookie it can only be 1 and when I say cookie I also mean any other sugary treat that I feel like I can’t live without.  Just 1, not 4, not 7, not the entire box, just 1. I say this because if I say absolutely no to these treats I really will eat them all.

Beth – 

1.  Pretty much since I’m in that book club now and I have a reading goal for this year on goodreads.com I’m just going to make y’all read every month about my goals.  I’m super pumped because the third book in the Divergent series comes out this month and I canNOT wait to read it! 🙂  So this will at least be one of my two books to read this month.

2.  I’m still working towards an organized home… 🙂  Will I ever accomplish this? I have a collection of boxes in three different places right now and my goal is to go through them, throw things away and either put the leftovers in the attic or some other place they can live.

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3.  This goal basically let’s you know I did not meet a goal last month, so again this month I shall make a window treatment for at least one of the three windows in my house I have fabric to do said project! I’m going to do it!

4. Yoga! Is it annoying that I keep just repeating goals?! I really want to make sure I’m getting in yoga during my marathon training because I know it’ll be soooo beneficial come December 8th when I’m taking on those 26.2 miles at Dallas Marathon!

What are you trying to accomplish this month??

Break? I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Break….OK, Maybe I Do!

On our March goals I mentioned that I wanted to survive my 2 week rest without cheating and we figured that that you might need a little more explanation. So here goes…

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Not too long ago I told you guys about my weight and my efforts to lose weight. I had been the heaviest in my life and not happy so I decided to do something about it. I managed to drop down quite a bit but have essentially been stuck at my current weight for a while now. At first I just had no loss or gain, and then all of a sudden an actual gain in fat for the first time in 2 years. To me, and many others this may seem odd, I work out basically everyday, run all the time, play basketball, swim, workout with a personal trainer, track my food, have very few cheat days…. you get the drift…an actual fat gain seems pretty impossible to me. So what is the problem?? It is calorically impossible in my opinion for this to happen.

I talked to my trainer, Will, about this a lot, he dug into what he knows and asked around as well and basically came to a consensus that I am overtraining and my body is in an adaptive mode all the time. So while I have fallen into a very healthy routine of exercise and eating right my body has too and has basically decided it is going to stay where it is. Thanks body – love you too!

Talk about motivation killer. I think I actually had a pitty party at the gym the day I was weighed and even broke down and decided exercise and everything I was doing was pointless and stupid, a waste of time.. blah blah blah. Ever feel like this??

I would say that this is similar to when people decide they have to make a change and come to a breaking point. Will asked me if it was feasible to take 2 weeks off from working out and move my body from adaptive mode and into recovery. I cringed of course. I have 2 half marathons in March, hence part of the problem, but I decided to do it. During this time I am going to do no running or cardio. I will weight train 2 times a week with Will and yoga 2 to 3 times a week. Getting my runner self  to not run 3-4 weeks before a race is a little scary, but I am too frustrated to stay where I am and not try something new! I can’t help but think of the insanity definition here. Can’t keep doing the same thing and expecting something to change.

Also, Beth and I both joined MyFitnessPal this week. I have always tracked her food on myapex but I found that it is less convenient. Sorry 24 Hour Fitness! MyFitnessPal works super easy on the phone and has more food listed so it makes it much easier to track food better. So with the rest, I am also becoming more on point with food.

Anyone ever been through this madness before? Let us know!  What did and did not work for you??