Goals for the Week

Goals for the Week

My workouts have completely ground to a halt.  In the past few weeks I have strained my neck and my back twice.  I've gained some weight back because of this, but maybe in the end it will be a good thing- this is forcing me to focus more on my nutrition.

Last week's goals:

1..  Read Knowing God Intimately by Joyce Meyer.  Awesome book!  I highly recommend it.  I have started Living Beyond Your Feelings, but I'm not finished yet.

2.  Study the Bible 30 minutes each day.  I missed one day and I could really tell.  I ended up having a crummy day.

3.  Workout at least 5 times.  Nope.

4.  Improving my nutrition.   I'm doing a MUCH better job drinking A LOT of water.  As in, 11 cups a day!  I have read in a few places that you should take your weight, divide it in half and drink that many ounces of water a day.  Don't worry though- there's an app for that!  I'm using the app "WAter"  such a creative name.  But I like using it to keep track of how much water I've had.  Plus you get an award for reaching your goal!    

5.  Plan a family photo shoot.  Still working on this one.  

6.  Take Bunny to visit the college she will be going to in the fall!!   What a great time!  I want to go to college again!  The art department had literally everything an artist could ever want.  

7. Enjoy vacation!!  done and done!

8.Health focus:  Each month, I'm going to focus on one aspect of good health.  This month the focus is "Getting God's Help."  This idea comes from the book Good Health, Good Life.  

        I will start each morning studying God's word and saying a positive affirmation, reminding me of his love for me.  I will also strive to pray throughout the day and remember to ask for help when faced with temptation.

This week I'm going to continue on the above and add in:

1.  Finish Living Beyond Your Feelings by Joyce Meyer and Read What Happens When Women Walk in Faith by Lysa Terkeurst.

2.  Study the Bible 30 minutes a day.

3.  Go for a walk at least 5 times.

4.  Improve my nutrition by continuing to say my positive affirmation each morning, drink 11 cups of water AND track everything that I eat into My Fitness Pal app.  I have a bad habit of only tracking the healthy food and then not entering in what I had for dinner and dessert.  No More!  Time to face the truth.  For this week, it's okay if I go over my calorie goal for the day.  My most important goal is that I enter in EVERYTHING that I eat.   

5.  Finish report cards.  Waaaa.  Not my favorite thing to do.  In fact, it's probably the thing I like the least about my job.  But I know the value of parental support, and so I do it.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things

there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

Goals for the Week

This has been a great activity for me!  I didn't accomplish everything that I wanted to, but throughout the week I would think about the goals that I had set and then work towards them.

Last week's goals:

1.  Create something to sell on teacherspayteachers.com.  Well, thankfully, I didn't actually accomplish this goal.  I had wanted to earn money so that I could order some supplements from Herbalife.  On Wednesday I went to my bank account's online bill pay and found that Herbalife had STOLEN $1127 from me!!  After several days of phone calls and trips to the bank, I finally got it sorted out.  My bank will be refunding me this week, and they will go after Herbalife for the money.  

     I'd still like to create something to sell however, but this time so that I can send my Bunny to college!!  Woo Hoo!

2.  Read Knowing God Intimately by Joyce Meyer.  I haven't quite finished this yet, but I'm close.  Well, I'm about two-thirds of the way through.  That's close right?  I did read and finish Good Health, Good Life by Joyce Meyer.  This book set me in the right path for achieving good health forever.  Not a diet!

3.  Study the Bible 30 minutes each day.  FINALLY!  This one I actually accomplished.  Yea me!  Yea God!

4.  Workout at least 5 times.  I strained my neck and hurt my back, so I'm taking it easy.  I went for a short walk today, but that's about it.  But that may be a good thing, because then I can concentrate on...

5.  Improving my nutrition.   I've worked on it, but I wouldn't say that it's good yet.  STill a work in progress here.  (and all the Easter candy isn't helping)

6.  Decorate Easter eggs.  

7.  Plan a family photo shoot.  Still working on this one.  

This week I'm going to continue on the above and add in:

1.  Finish Knowing God Intimately and also read Living Beyond Your Feelings.

2.  Take Bunny to visit the college she will be going to in the fall!!  So exciting.  This is definitely an answer to a prayer that I really never thought would come true.  

3.  Enjoy vacation!!  I'm loving relaxing, reading and being home.

4.  Health focus:  Each month, I'm going to focus on one aspect of good health.  This month the focus is "Getting God's Help."  This idea comes from the book Good Health, Good Life.  

        I will start each morning studying God's word and saying a positive affirmation, reminding me of his love for me.  I will also strive to pray throughout the day and remember to ask for help when faced with temptation.

But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings like eagles,

they shall run and not be weary,

they shall walk and not faint. 

Isaiah 40:31

Goals for the Week

Goals for the Week:

I swiped this idea from moneysavingmom.com.  Crystal Paine is an amazing blogger, writer, speaker, business woman and Christian.  Each week she posts her goals and updates her readers on the progress she made last week.  This seems like a good idea for me, so here goes!

1.  Create something to sell on TeachersPayTeachers so that I can earn enough money to buy the Weight Loss shakes from Herbalife.  I don't know if these supplements will work for me, but I figure that if I'm buying supplements anyway, I may as well try it.  I'm already buying supplements from GNC, so I decided to try this.  If I like it, then I can get it for a discount and if others like it, I could sell it to them.  But I WON'T buy it without having the $$ first.  There's not much room in my budget for this, so I am going to have to EARN the money.  All I could think of was to sell some teacher products on TeachersPayTeachers.com.

2.  Read Knowing God Intimately by Joyce Meyer.  We went to one of her conferences this past weekend and it was awesome!  I loved it.  

3.  Study the bible 30 minutes each day.  This is another challenge from Joyce Meyer, my "new" favorite author/speaker.  (she's 72 years old)  She is challenging people to read and study the bible for 30 days for 30 minutes each day.  

4.  Workout at least 5 times.  Still working on the LiveFit Trainer from Jaime Eason, though I've had to take a break because I strained my neck.  I think I'll have to skip anything where I'm pushing weights above my head.  Ouch.  But I am enjoying the feeling of getting stronger, even if I haven't lost much weight.  Which brings me to goal #5...

5.  Work on my nutrition! Good gracious.  It's getting ridiculous.  I am not a 14 year old boy who can eat whatever he wants and still be a string bean.  I NEED to get it together.  

6.  Decorate Easter Eggs with the kids.  I'd also like to take our little 5 year old friend to an easter egg hunt, just need to talk to her mom!  Maybe we could just make our own for her in the yard.

7.  Plan a family photo shoot.  This is something that I'd really like to do.  I want to decide on a location and what we'll wear.

So we make it our goal to please him, 

whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

2 Corinthians 5:9

What are your goals for the week?

Weigh In Wednesday

    Last week I overindulged waaaay too much. It was Bunny's birthday and we went all out. 2 Cakes, out to eat twice, and lots of diet coke. However I did all my workouts and ended up pretty much even for the week. I am back on track and ready for more muscles and less fat!  

   So overall, I'm down 6 pounds and 6 inches. Looking at my pictures I don't see much difference but I know it will take time.  But I feel like I should be ready for a bikini competition by now!

  I've started Phase 2 of Jaime Eason's LiveFit trainer. We are doing strength training 6 days a week and adding in cardio(elliptical) 4 days a week!  Ag!  I have been super tired. I actually was in bed at 6:30 last night!

  Even though I don't see much progress, I'm happy to have lost 6 pounds and today my pants felt loose!  

We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Romans 5:3-4

Week 4 Completed!

I feel so good!  I'm proud of myself for completing the first 4 weeks of Jaime Eason's LiveFit Trainer.  I officially ended Phase 1 and I'm nervously excitedly looking forward to Phase 2.

I've been sticking to the workouts- I haven't missed a single one!  Last week my nutrition was off- between my cycle and my daughter's birthday, I didn't do that great.  One thing that has stuck with my is that this is a lifestyle.  If you can't stick to a nutrition plan, then you shouldn't do it.  This is a forever shift in the way I eat.  Basically, it's "clean eating" pumped up with protein powder and LOTS OF CHICKEN.  

Phase 2 is coming at the perfect time.  We're adding in cardio 3-4 times a week.  Medium intensity, nothing crazy.  I think it will be a challenge to just do cardio at all after all the strength training.  I'll be at the gym for over an hour 6 days a week.  That is a bit daunting!!

However, I'm pretty excited with my results, and that keeps me motivated to move forward.  I've lost 6 pounds and 6 inches.  I've never been able to get these kind of results.  EVER.  

It feels nice to be getting confident and getting compliments.  It sounds silly, but this could literally change the way I move through life.  I find myself doing the things that are important to me, things that I value and forgetting about the silly, unimportant things.  

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,

 who have been called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

Book Review: The Bigger the Hair, the Closer to God

This was a fun, light-hearted book with a great message.  And it had little to do with actual hair, but some meaningful life lessons for this middle-aged woman.

Lessons from The Big Hair Lady:

1. Here are the first sentences of the book:  "Remember the person you planned to be?  Thought you were, in fact, when you were young and innocent and didn't know any better?"  Basically, stop worrying about what other people say about you and just be concerned about the you that God created and BE her.
2. Get and nurture some real friendships.  (Definitely need some work on this one!)
3. Talk to yourself like the little blue engine that could, "I think I can, I think I can..."
4. Mind-blowing quote:  "Even better, you can take a fresh look in your rearview mirror and, with God's help, see a new story-one that's redemptive, perhaps even empowering."  I've learned way more from the difficult things in life than during easy times.  Like my ski instructor used to say, "if you're not falling down, you're not challenging yourself!"  So true!
5. You don't have to have big hair!  "Big-Haired Lady is na attitude!  A cute, darlin', witty, intelligent, passionate, authentic, interesting, 'wow-look at me because I'm God's very best creation,' seize-the-day attitude!"

Are you a Big Hair Lady?  I want to be one!

Weigh-in Wednesday

Good news!  I lost another pound. I also lost an inch and a half on my thigh!  That's NEVER happened before. I'm pretty happy with my progress so far. That is definitely a baby bicep bump growing! Yippee!!

I'm continuing to follow Jaime Eason's LiveFit  Trainer.  This is my 3rd week. I'm working out 5 times this week. I'm sure that I'll be missing 3 days off, but I'm happy to be building muscle and losing fat. This week we only get 2 rest days. 

I got 2 compliments yesterday at work.  It made me feel good that someone is noticing!

I'm still struggling with dinner. Breakfast, lunch and snacks are all on point, but having a healthy dinner when everyone else eats pizza, burgers, and chicken nuggets is so hard for me. I'm thinking that I will need to start meal prepping dinner too.  Either that or make them eat my food (not looking forward to that conversation).  I'll need to make a decision by Saturday when I do my grocery shopping. 

Another plus is finding the BodySpace app!  I'm part of a facebook group set up by Alesha Haley that supports each other while we do this program.  It's a great group, and I had a "dumb" question for the group.  One of the ladies recommended it. Thank goodness she did. It's awesome!  I can enter my program and then it shows me exactly what to do, has video tutorials, rest timers, EVERYTHING.  So great and even better- free!  

Any suggestions for dinners?