Weird little week I had; I was in Arizona until Monday, was home sick on Tuesday, got some terrible news about a good friend on Wednesday, had My First Migraine on Thursday, and then my Aunt Flo visit started on Friday. No wonder I've been hiding under my covers all week! Although this is a short week too, I promise to be more social and comment more on blogs and post more consistently; I have noticed that when I am feeling the least confident I find more excuses not to have time to take photos, and that's got to stop. Keeping myself honest about my weight and my appearance through daily blogging has been just as important to my weight loss efforts as eating right, and it's not a habit I should let go of.
Speaking of which, it was interesting to realize which goals I did stumble on this week. They weren't the ones I expected!
1. Attend WW meetings every week without skipping any.
I had to bring all our old oversized coats to a charity coat drive on Thursday night so I went to the Saturday morning meeting.
The topic was again Thanksgiving, and I got to total up all the points I ate at the old-fashioned dinner we had in Arizona: 48, and that didn't even count all the appetizers and cheese-crackers I had. YIKES. But my real Thanksgiving dinner will be much more reasonable, 18-24 points depending on how much stuffing I have. :)
2. Exercise 4 days a week minimum.
Due to illness and timing, I got 5 days in on the Wii, but no other exercise types. Yet. That's going to be one of my goals at the upcoming challenge commitment, to alternate exercise types so I get 3 out of 4 weekly: running, swimming, Wii cardio, Wii yoga/stretching.
Still need to Google the local Turkey Trot. Oooh, let me do that now. Me likey my Thanksgiving stuffing... :)
3. Count my points in my Tracker.
And THIS is where I fell down this week! I was good until about Thursday, then I just...didn't take it out of my purse. And I ate all kinds of crap the minute I stopped writing it down. Lesson learned; it's back out now!
4. Cut back on the alcohol to 1-2 drinks a week.
This is the some of the "crap" I mentioned in #3, LOL. But oohhhh, those beers hit the spot on Friday night. And they bloated me up for Saturday weigh-in, so there were consequences.
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I've started to think about what I want my next commitment challenge to be; this was great for me because it got me into some good habits that I desperately needed to do, and really helped me transition from the Medifast mindset to the WW one for good; I probably should have done something like this starting back in July instead of waiting all summer! Oh well.
But the next one needs a firm goal at the end, something more than just "learn this new habit". I need to actually lose weight now, and knowing the way I've tackled this commitment challenge and my Type A personality in general, making Getting to Goal the goal of the next one is exactly what I need to do. My birthday is March 13, so my next challenge will be from December 13 to March 13 (oooooh, I just realized the date range! COOL!), and the main thrust of the challenge will be to be at goal weight by my birthday. There will still be smaller habit steps involved, but all will be selected in order to get me to my weight goal again.
Heh. In a way I kind of want this challenge to hurry up and be finished; I am ready to start concentrating on different mini-goals. Which is so silly, since these will remain a part of my regular routine now even with the next one. The mental games I play with myself are very strange sometimes!
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Speaking of mental games, my shopping budget has been going well. I haven't kept it exactly to my limit down to the dollar, but I have stayed pretty close to it. Considering I slashed my monthly spending by 75% with this budget, that's pretty impressive!
I would be more proud of myself if there weren't an underlying reason I've not been buying a lot of new clothes: I refuse to buy a larger size while I am still hanging onto these extra 18 pounds. We'll see if I'm bragging about how easy a budget is when I actually *want* to buy clothes again, LOL!
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