Week 8 goals

OK. So, first, sorry I am so sucking with the commenting lately. I've tried to get one out there every once in a while but, mostly? Not so much. I assure I am attempting to keep up with the reading, though!

Let's start with the weigh-in, shall we?


THIS WEEK: -2 lbs

Yay! Happy dance. This puts me a pound away from being the lightest I can remember being since my boyfriend and I started dating (not what I weighed when we started dating, though... that's another 10-ish pounds down the road. This is from after I gained the weight).

I don't know what the issue is here, but Blogger is driving me NUTS so this might be a short post. Every time I hit enter to go to the next paragraph, it goes to the beginning of the current paragraph, or just to some random point in the sentence. WTF??

Goals:

1) Lose 15 pounds. I'm officially 12 down and only 3 to go. So close! And, what, two weeks left? I think?

2) Walk/Jog 2+ hours per week. Success!

3) Complete the first two phases of CLX. Getting there, though I think my finish date will actually be a few days after the actual 10 weeks. Close enough for me, though.

4) Learn about and apply nutrition to my life more fully. I don't really feel like I did anything actively toward this goal this week, but I did eat fairly well (with the exception of some chocolate) and managed to make a few "Crap I forgot to shop, let me throw something healthy together" meals, which is a success for me (normally if I forget to shop I just have junk).

5) Make a weekly meal plan and stick to it. With the exception of those days I forgot to shop, I did this. Actually, I guess I shouldn't say forgot to shop. Forgot to re-shop is the actual problem. I went shopping but there were a few things that store didn't have, so I was supposed to go to another store to pick them up. And forgot.

6) Log what I eat 5+ days per week.  I started off strong, but did not finish strong. No 5 days for me. :(

7) Sleep, glorious sleep. If you ignore yesterday, I did very well on this goal this week. Not necessarily midnight every night, but close most nights. So very nice to get to bed at a relatively normal time....!



I must cut this short (in addition to the annoyance factor, I didn't realize how late it was!), but I'll be back ASAP for more!

ETA: I had to rush off and forgot to tell you something about me! 

I haven't ever been what you would call a natural athlete. Always wanted to be, but never was. However, when I was about 13 I started playing roller hockey and absolutely loved it. I was the first person on the team to master shooting the puck (by "master" I mean, lifting it off the ground and mostly aiming it, as opposed to just slapping it across the floor in the general direction of the net). Because I was actually strong and most of the other girls were quite frail (they were the girlfriends of the boys' team) I played defense. It's the only team sport I ever played in middle or high school, and I was in a small town so I only got to play for a short time because then our skating rink shut down. Random related fact: When I was first learning to Rollerblade, I remember watching Olympic ice skating to learn technique. That's actually how I learned to cross one leg over the other when I turned, for starters. I picked up quite a bit from watching that.