Week 4 in review

This week's goals and how I did:

• Get in 5-6 days of exercise. Aim for 6+ activity points
• Saturday - Official Rest Day - 0 activity points
• Sunday - Arm focused 1 Mile DVD workout - 2 activity points
• Monday - Project You Foundations (minus about 5 minutes of it) - 2 activity points
• In the future I should not do this workout the day after another one with a lot of arm movements. So, Do Not do after Arm focused Mile or Walk Away the Pounds. Good day before workouts are Classic Mile, Gazelle, maybe Hip Hop Abs (haven't done it in a while so I don't remember how my arms feel after.)
• Tuesday - Classic Mile - 2 activity points
• Wednesday -Rest day. When I got up this morning I was extremely sore from the last three days of workouts. Proves that the workouts are doing something, but today my butt, hips, and upper inner and outer thighs were not happy with me. Things that hurt to do: sit down, stand up, go up or down the stairs, bend over (to attach or un-attach the dog chain outside). Made it hard to do much.- 0 activity points
• Thursday - Shoveled snow 35min - 3 activity points
• Friday - no power until noon starting at 6pm Thursday night plus back pain from shoveling = no exercise today.
• Activity Points total for the week: 9!
• 4 days of exercise. Getting better. The increase in intensity (and therefore activity points earned) is taking its toll on my body, but I will keep plugging along. I will work through the pain except for when I feel as though doing so will cause more harm than good. Don't want to risk pulling or straining a muscle when I could have just not exercised for a day and been fine.
• Continue taking my vitamin every day
• Remembered to take it every day! :)
• Wake up at 6:30am, Lights out at 9:30pm.
• Saturday - up at 6:30am; lights out at10:05pm
• Sunday - up at 6:40am; lights out at10:00pm
• Monday - up at 6:40am (missed my opportunity to get in the bathroom before Rose); lights out at 10:30pm
• Tuesday - up at 6:30am; lights out at 9:50pm
• Wednesday - up at 7:30am (power went out a couple times in the night so I kept waking up from the noise of things turning on and off); lights out at11pm (doh!)
• Thursday - up at 6:30am; "lights out" (aka, turned off my flashlight/headlamp) at 9:30pm
• Friday - up at 6:11am
  
• Try to stay within weekly points and keep tracking! Also, continue to work on planning my meals ahead of time.  
• Did good up until the power went out on Thursday night. I'd already eaten my dinner and tracked it, but when I woke up and the power was still out and we didn't know how long it would be out I just ate what I could get a hold of without caring about if it was good for me or not or what it was. Figured out how much I ate and while I was 1 point over my weeklies as of Thursday night, after today (Friday) I went over by 21 total!! UGH! I knew I should have been thinking more before I grabbed something to eat, but I just kept eating without thinking. (further proof that PMS and power outages do not mix well)
• Slowly getting the hang of planning my meals ahead of time again. I found some new blogs to follow, several of which are by people that post what they ate thru the day and make daily posts. This is helping me remember that I can combine foods however I want to, especially if it means I'm eating more fruits and veggies. This also means that I do not need to force myself to eat "breakfast" foods for breakfast if that's not what I'm in the mood for, nor do I need to eat sandwiches for lunch because I think that I should. For example, on Thursday I had baked ziti with sauteed mushrooms for breakfast, broccoli cheese stuffed chicken with wax beans and peaches for lunch, and oatmeal for dinner. I just need to keep remembering that food days like that are fine. 
• Something I need to work on is to cut down on my butter intake (I love butter! This was much easier to control in Ohio when I had full control of the kitchen's contents). I also need to work on being better about measuring things. I know that there are a lot of things that I'm just guesstimating portions on and my long term weight loss would benefit from being more accurate with this.
  

Weigh In Results:
 - Due to weather I am not even going to attempt to go to my meeting in the morning. Since Tuesday we have gotten somewhere between 30 and 36 inches of snow, and by 7pm tomorrow night we are supposed to get 6-12more. Not worth it to risk the drive. Also, there's a good chance that the meeting will be canceled, as it is in a Head Start school/program building and they've been closed most of the week because of the weather.

VitaTop Flavor Update:
 - Banana Nut - ok so far. I like them better warm than cold. Will try toasting them next. A bit on the dry side.
 - Triple Chocolate Chunk - A good change from the Deep Chocolate, but similar in taste and texture. Definitely only need to order one version of chocolate w/ chocolate chips.
 - Still haven't tried the Banana Fudge ones yet.