Fitness Friday

Okay so Brenda at The Family Revised gave us our assignment.

GOALS

I have goals.

I have plenty of them.

I have big goals.

I have small goals.

I have unattainable goals.

I have detailed goals.

I have goals!

My problem is rarely making a goal! My problem is keeping it! I just dont usually manage to accomplish my goals. Now this is not me whining... this is just keeping it real!

goal- drink water
goal- lose weight
goal- eat healthy and sensibly in order to accomplish goal 2 and be healthy
goal- be careful with finances
goal- be careful with time
goal- travel
goal- read good books

Now these are some of my present goals, not all of them just a few!

Let's break it down...

Drink water- supposedly I need to drink an ounce for every pound. That's a lotta water ladies! I wont even tell you how many! But that a lot!!! I probably at the most drink about 10 cups (80 oz) I will work on this! I promise to up today to at least 13 cups!!!

lose weight- well I am losing a teeny, tiny, itty, bitty bit! But I am also NOT gaining so there you have it! I will watch my portions and my choices. I know the drill!

Eat healthy- I am cooking at home mostly which helps that some, I an incorporating some more veggies into the kids meals and trying really hard at this. It is a process!

Be careful with the money- we are totally meeting this one. Not perfectly but we are doing really well! We are paying off debt right now! FUN! Also we are saving for various situation coming up!

Be careful with my time- I am working on this... It is hard when things are already set in stone, but I am working on it and making the changes I can. One of those things is outside activities... we are getting better and I am staying home more!

Travel- this is important and we will do a little bit this year but right now travel money is mostly going toward debt! WE will travel later!!!

Read good books- I have a list of books I want to read this year. I will post it when it is complete. I am going to my first Adult Book Club club on Sunday night, I am very excited. I have never gone to one!

Fitness Friday...

Okay, so today is Fitness Friday.

Number one I did awful this week, I dont really know why but I did AWFUL! So I must do better next week! But enough of that... on to our assignment!

I got Brenda's assignment a few days ago and have thought about it off and on all week long! It was a hard one to be honest! I know that Brenda is attempting to inspire herself to be more feminine and assumed that her wardrobe change would be to that effect. Now I have worked on being more feminine all year- 2008, not really to the point of wearing skirts, but wearing makeup, dressing up, wearing jewelry basically just not wearing jeans and a polo every single day!

So I will show you me and said polo and jeans and than I will show you dressed up how I like to generally go out and you can vote! Yeah!

HMMMM.. Now feel very honored that I even put that picture up! I had to search for about 15 minutes just to find one because you know that I am always taking the picture because I always look like picture number two!!! Yuck. I think I look like, well I think I look awful and feel SOOOO much better when I look like picture number one! Seriously gotta throw away the polos! I also gotta keep my hair highlighted! I love when I wear jewelry. My hubbie does too! HE NOTICES! When I am dressed like number one I almost always get a "wow, you look nice" there is lots of emphasis! When I am dressed like number two...nothing! I dont blame him one bit! Yes dh you are reading this and thank you for loving me all the time! I promise to continue in my attempt to be more feminine and to take pride in what I wear and accept that even though I am overweight it does not mean that I can only wear polos!

Also ladies please take note of said stupid smile! Hmmm... It is like a half smile? I dont know why I do this and these are better shots than usual!

Updated: I thought I had finished this post but I asked hubby if he thinks I dress feminine. He said not most of the time. I said you mean when I wear polo's. He said yes. I said do you want me to dress up everyday. He said well I like to see you dressed up but if you arent going anywhere all day I hate for you to dress up just for me to get home at 6:30. I said do you want me to wear skirts an dresses. He said No, you dont really seem like a skirt and dress kind of gal.

HMMM.... So conclusion is I guess I dont have to wear skirts and dresses but I will make a concentrated effort to rarely EVER wear polo's and to try to be dressed when he gets home if possible!

Update on the update: He didnt really say the phrase "kind of gal" I kindof paraphrased that!

Fitness Friday...

Add or Subtract.

Brenda has given us an assignment for Fitness Friday! It is Add and Subtract.

I have given this thought this whole week. I thought what do I want to add and subtract in my life. What will make me a better person, a better wife, a better mother, a better teacher, a better women. Well since it is Fitness Friday obviously I want to subtract the pounds and add new clothes to my wardrobe. But that is like the cop out answer, the easy out!

This year is all about being real with myself and my aspirations...

I want to add willpower- which will allow me to subtract the pounds!
I want to add wisdom- which will allow me to subtract bad choices!
I want to add peace- which will subtract all the stress eating!
I want to add real foods- which will allow me to subtract the bad foods!
I want to add God- who will allow me to subtract all the fear and anxiety!

Fitness Friday...

Brenda at the Family Revised gave us this nice fill-in-the-blank for our Fitness Friday this week! I like the idea of fill in the blanks! I am so glad it wasnt true or false (those things give me the willies and I am not even a liar!- I have no idea why!)

1.This Christmas I am going to indulge in (meaning enjoy, without guilt, a reasonable amount of) CARBS, sweet potato covered in marsh mellows, rolls with butter, green bean casserole, cinnamon bread, desserts.... in a reasonable amount

2. It is my goal to stay away from water. jj!

3. Over the holiday, I am changing my exercise goals to um walk around stores!

4. The way I will remind myself to make good choices over the holiday is that I pay for every choice, and New Years Resolutions are coming up!

5. My favorite ornament on my tree is my cranberry mickey mouse. (Hey, they can't all be about fitness!)

6. Of the progress I have made so far, my favorite thing is feeling accomplishment.