Re: soooooo behind & week in review

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replying to my own post...

I wanted to say too, that I'll get back to actually responding to emails and posts about my posts as soon as I can. Thanks for anyone's patience who is waiting on a reply. I have had things going on nearly every day and every evening this week and next week is more of the same. All of May seemed to be like that and the first half of June. Like I said in my first post, school ending season is so much worse for me than the winter holiday season and I'm not even a teacher and only have 2 kids in school! I can't imagine what teachers are going through and parents with more than 2 in school!!! Wow!!!

soooooo behind & week in review

I'm so behind on email and group posts it is scary. We're in our absolutely crazy time of year. It is much worse than December. My fitness week was only saved by Monday's workout.

Monday: Cathe Body Max

Tuesday: could have worked out but decided not to, wanted to have a little time to myself, wish I would have anyway, oh well

Wednesday: Shape Bikini Body Camp Transforming Workout Sculpt Plus (and about 2 minutes of The FIRM Express Cardio)

Thursday: Cardio Kickbox and The FIRM Lower Body Sculpting II

Friday: walked a lot helping with the kids' school's annual Field Day from 9-4. Not exactly cardio but at least I was either standing or in motion most of the time. I helped behind the scenes with a dance recital from my daughter's dance school that evening too (making sure the 2nd grade girls were occupied when they weren't on stage and then making sure they were ready to go on stage and escorting them to and from the stage). I love being with kids but I was pretty "kidded" out by the end of the night.

Saturday: No workout. Today was Miriam's dance recital so I got to sit in the audience and enjoy (after sleeping in, cleaning house and doing her hair & makeup).

My eating was better overall this week than last week. It was AWFUL last week and I did not weigh in because of it. I felt awful and didn't want to face the scale even though I'm always telling people to face it anyway. I knew what I had been doing & why though. I also knew how to get back on track and most importantly, I knew without a doubt that I would too, with or without the scale's help, so I decided not to torture myself. Other people often avoid it once and then keep avoiding it and gain a lot back so that's why I recommend facing it (I did that sooo many times). I did get back on track this week but did not journal hardly at all so I don't know how back on track I was. I felt more in control though overall. I did weigh in today and must have done something right because I was only up 0.8 lb. so that's really good and doesn't bother me at all. I was bracing myself for 2-3 pounds even though I didn't feel that heavy, it was just that I was so out of control at times and so not journaling that I had no idea what would happen. I am journaling again now and feel very good about the week ahead even though I was quite a bit over my daily points today. I wrote everything down (electronically, I hate journaling on paper) and I know most of it was just choices and not portion control issues and not a lot of just because I feel like it not because I'm actually hungry snacking so it is all good and tomorrow will be even better. I've got menus for the week planned now and that's going to help a lot too I'm sure.

Tomorrow I'm grocery shopping and not planning to work out unless I have time and want to and am okay with that. We have much more going on still with school ending and I need to grab little bits of time to relax and do meaningless stuff when I can for the next few days! ;-) I haven't planned next week's workouts yet but need to tomorrow. The kids get out of school Wednesday at noon for the summer and if I don't know what I'm planning to do Thursday and Friday the workouts won't happen as easily as they do during the school year. But, it is 11:30 so I'm going to sleep, feeling good overall about where I am and looking forward to tomorrow.

[Guest guest]

replying to my own post...

I wanted to say too, that I'll get back to actually responding to emails and posts about my posts as soon as I can. Thanks for anyone's patience who is waiting on a reply. I have had things going on nearly every day and every evening this week and next week is more of the same. All of May seemed to be like that and the first half of June. Like I said in my first post, school ending season is so much worse for me than the winter holiday season and I'm not even a teacher and only have 2 kids in school! I can't imagine what teachers are going through and parents with more than 2 in school!!! Wow!!!

soooooo behind & week in review

I'm so behind on email and group posts it is scary. We're in our absolutely crazy time of year. It is much worse than December. My fitness week was only saved by Monday's workout.

Monday: Cathe Body Max

Tuesday: could have worked out but decided not to, wanted to have a little time to myself, wish I would have anyway, oh well

Wednesday: Shape Bikini Body Camp Transforming Workout Sculpt Plus (and about 2 minutes of The FIRM Express Cardio)

Thursday: Cardio Kickbox and The FIRM Lower Body Sculpting II

Friday: walked a lot helping with the kids' school's annual Field Day from 9-4. Not exactly cardio but at least I was either standing or in motion most of the time. I helped behind the scenes with a dance recital from my daughter's dance school that evening too (making sure the 2nd grade girls were occupied when they weren't on stage and then making sure they were ready to go on stage and escorting them to and from the stage). I love being with kids but I was pretty "kidded" out by the end of the night.

Saturday: No workout. Today was Miriam's dance recital so I got to sit in the audience and enjoy (after sleeping in, cleaning house and doing her hair & makeup).

My eating was better overall this week than last week. It was AWFUL last week and I did not weigh in because of it. I felt awful and didn't want to face the scale even though I'm always telling people to face it anyway. I knew what I had been doing & why though. I also knew how to get back on track and most importantly, I knew without a doubt that I would too, with or without the scale's help, so I decided not to torture myself. Other people often avoid it once and then keep avoiding it and gain a lot back so that's why I recommend facing it (I did that sooo many times). I did get back on track this week but did not journal hardly at all so I don't know how back on track I was. I felt more in control though overall. I did weigh in today and must have done something right because I was only up 0.8 lb. so that's really good and doesn't bother me at all. I was bracing myself for 2-3 pounds even though I didn't feel that heavy, it was just that I was so out of control at times and so not journaling that I had no idea what would happen. I am journaling again now and feel very good about the week ahead even though I was quite a bit over my daily points today. I wrote everything down (electronically, I hate journaling on paper) and I know most of it was just choices and not portion control issues and not a lot of just because I feel like it not because I'm actually hungry snacking so it is all good and tomorrow will be even better. I've got menus for the week planned now and that's going to help a lot too I'm sure.

Tomorrow I'm grocery shopping and not planning to work out unless I have time and want to and am okay with that. We have much more going on still with school ending and I need to grab little bits of time to relax and do meaningless stuff when I can for the next few days! ;-) I haven't planned next week's workouts yet but need to tomorrow. The kids get out of school Wednesday at noon for the summer and if I don't know what I'm planning to do Thursday and Friday the workouts won't happen as easily as they do during the school year. But, it is 11:30 so I'm going to sleep, feeling good overall about where I am and looking forward to tomorrow.