Baby Steps

This week has been super frustrating, but I think it has taught me a lot. First off being that I need to get out of this slump I am in. I have been eating pretty well (if you do not count today) but my exercising and organization efforts have failed miserably. I have decided that I have two problems. One: I am slightly depressed so that really diminishes all of my willpower. Second: I am really anxious about all these changes and that makes me reluctant to start them.

I have decided that next week I am going to make an appointment to see if I might get some of this stuff figured out. In the meantime, I need to make a plan for next week.......so here it goes.

Monday-Write paper, Mackenzie has an appointment, make my donation station that I was supposed to make a month ago!, put up laundry, plan dinner for the week (the Mon-Fri portion of it anyways).
Tuesday-No schoolwork day,  clean off top of fridge, bookshelf, dressers, and filing cabinet, and dust, deep clean front room and basic chores, 45 minutes of zumba, board game with kids
Wednesday-Read 2 chapters, Deep clean dining room, Declutter top shelf of one closet, 45 minutes of zumba
Thursday-do discussion board questions and responses, Deep clean kitchen, Go through spice cabinet and throw away old and expired spices, start grocery list and menu plan for next week, if weather is nice go to park and if it isn't make a obstacle course in house.
Friday-Deep clean bathroom, start on paper and 2 responses, Babysit one of my favorite kids day (so in other words I am giving myself permission to play most the day, put all cans together on can shelf
Saturday- I work 12 hours, 2 responses, movie night, throw away old freezer burned food. Write summary of how I did and start plan for next week.

If I come back one more time and have not done these things you should yell at me......I know i have been sick for 3 weeks but maybe if I got off my butt I would feel better.

And This Is Your Weekly Report

So...it has been a week. My sickies are mostly gone even though I am still coughing a ridiculous amount. I have done pretty good in the eating well department until today (stupid girl scout cookies). I also got Zumba on the Wii this week and have exercised twice this week. The goal is 3 times but I have only had the game 3 days and I wasn't home one night to do it. The game came with a free week of Zumba classes at 25 hour fitness but I am definitely not ready to show off my awesome coordination and rhythm in public. I am mostly proud of myself for the amount of green veggies I have eaten this week and the fact that I have only talked myself into buying candy once this week. My brain likes to trick me and convince me that since there are peanuts in peanut M&Ms that they are not as unhealthy as most candy. I have read the calories on the package. It is only true by 2 calories (which basically means it isn't true). I have not lost any weight this week but I have also not gained. I am hoping next week I exercise more. I was going to plan a big list of things for me to do for this week, but since it is final week I should probably just throw in some goals I can accomplish......

Goals for this week:
Get my schoolwork done
Exercise 3 times
Drink 120 ounces of water a day
Go back and do the week 1 declutter stuff that I did not finish.
Put up this mountain of laundry that has accumulated (I obviously hate laundry....with a passion).

Alright.....I will get back with you to see how I did.

First Week Success (Or Lack There Of)

So....the firtst week ended Saturday and it is now Monday and I don't even have a plan for this week yet. I have been sick since last Wednesday. Pretty much nothing has gotten accomplished and I should have a plan up for this week, but am still feeling exhausted so I am guessing that isn't happening today. I think I am going to take a break until all my antibiotics are gone and I feel better. I can restart next week and just pretend it is the first all over again. I do plan to keep eating good and drinking a lot of water this week though. I did lose 2 pounds last week but I am pretty sure that is mainly because my throat hurt too bad to eat any sort of solid food. Still, I only had 2 pops all week so I am pretty proud of myself as far as that goes.....I really need to bring a water bottle to work because buying a Dasani is more than I want to pay and the pop machine calls my name when I am thirsty. I guess I will be checking back in on Saturday or Sunday with my new plan....see ya then.

Sadface

The past two days I have accomplished nothing. I got my required schoolwork done but that is it. Also, my head is about to explode and I can't stop coughing. In good news, I might actually lose weight because I can't eat anything but soup and things covered in hot sauce. I ate amazingly yesterday and was very proud of myself. I came home and then just slept and I slept more this morning and this afternoon. Then this afternoon we had to go look at some cars for Bill (not quite sure why I had to go). Later I went to work and then came home. This boring story was going somewhere but not quite sure where now. Hopefully tomorrow is better. I am 3 chapters behind on my reading, and I think I have another. Bill is getting sick now though so I am not promising anything. If both of us are sick then it is going to be a very long day. Now to go burn my throat with tea so it will be numb and I can sleep. Complain session is over now.

Good Day

Today I did good on everything but the lose weight stuff. Right after I posted yesterday I hurt my shoulder somehow and it hurts terribly! I cannot move it without pain. Icy hot is my best friend today. This means that exercising was not happening. I did run back and forth from the front room to the kitchen about 10 times because it made the baby laugh. If she laughs at all the exercise I do then I will be skinny in no time. I did good with breakfast and lunch but by 5 I had totally failed. I ate a pop tart and about 4 pieces of pizza instead of the salad I was supposed to have. However, it is a couple hours until bedtime and I have no desire to snack so I suppose that is good. I did not drink as much water as I was supposed to, but I still have not had any pop. I did awesome on the decluttering and cleaning goals. My front room and dining room are cleaned, and I was supposed to dust and clean the tops of my cabinets and fridge. It is a good idea that I added the fridge to that idea because I do not have tops of cabinets. Hey...I didn't make the decluttering list. I feel like now I should put the link I use for the decluttering calendar so the person who wrote it gets credit, so here it is: http://www.mysimplerlife.com/2012/Decluttercalendar2012.pdf. I am guessing that I have not cleaned off the top of my fridge in years. When my son was smaller when we took things away we put them on the fridge because otherwise he would just go take them back. Putting them on top of the fridge saved us a giant battle. Well.......I guess a few things never got returned to him. I found two kids music cds, Shrek 2, The Laurie Berkenr Band dvd, and 2 PSP games. Poor kid doesn't even have a PSP anymore (and hasn't in quite a few years). I was supposed to read two chapters today. I read one chapter and now I am going to read the other one and then go to bed. So good night, sweat dreams, and all that good stuff.

First couple of days

So for the first day I was supposed to think of who I wanted to be. To be quite honest, I am mostly fine with who I am. If I did have to change something though I would like to be more productive and I would like to complain less. I want to be a more productive less complaining version of myself. The other thing I was supposed to do was read....weeeeelll I was dying because of New Years eve celebrating so I put it all off. Today I did very well. For breakfast I had a bowl of oatmeal, a spinach salad for lunch, and am about to eat some chicken stew type of thing. It has chicken, brown rice, cabbage, carrots, celery, and corn cooked in chicken broth. I weighed myself today and that made me sad but motivated me at the same time. I have decided I need to lose 40 pounds and not 30. I got all the laundry done, have a plan for my donation station but need a paycheck to complete it. I do have an idea for it to be done temporarily and will be labeling everything after dinner. That means everything has been completed but reading. I am planning on doing that after Pretty Little Liars tonight. (priorities haha). Guess I will check back in a couple of days. I have to say I am pretty proud of myself so far especially considering I have a very cranky baby. ......Oh, last of all, I have drank a ton of water today but still feel ridiculously thirsty.....any idea why?