This is really working......(Week 10)

Here's how things went:

• Follow my new carb rules for the week and see how it goes
• I did well with this for the majority of the week. But, I think I need this to be just an added layer on my meal planning. I need to be more aware of the volume and types of carbs I'm eating, but tracking it like this was making me batty some days, which can lead to my just giving up and binging, so we need to avoid that. So for coming weeks I am going to be more aware of what I'm eating, trying not to have large carb servings with every meal. 
• Minimum of 4 days of exercise, earning minimum of 6 activity points 
• Sunday - 17 minutes on Gazelle - using iPod - 1 AP
• Monday - 17 minutes on Gazelle - using iPod - 1 AP 
•  I keep letting changes in my schedule keep me from exercising. I need to stop letting myself talk myself out of exercising.
• Keep working on pushing back time for lights out
• Saturday - lights out @ 10:30pm
  
• Sunday  - lights out @ 10:30pm
• Monday - lights out @ 12:25am (way too late! but it was good catching up with friends)
• Tuesday - lights out @ 11:00pm
• Wednesday - lights out @ 11:00pm
• Thursday - lights out @11:05pm
• Friday - lights out @ 11:15pm
• Being up so late Monday night has completely undone my previous efforts, basically making me start this whole process all over again. 
• Stay within points for the week (dailys + weeklies) 
•  Success! :)

New foods this week:

• Banana Fudge VitaTop
• I am totally kicking myself for not tasting these sooner. They are like my chocolate chip banana muffins that I used to make. YUM!!! 
• Skinny Cow Individual Ice Cream Cups
• Chocolate Fudge Brownie - Pretty decent. Was a nice way to meet my chocolate craving
• Cookies and Cream - not as creamy as I'd like for the ice cream, but that's pretty consistent for low fat ice creams.
• I like these cups because I can eat the whole thing without eating way too much ice cream (crazy mental connection of wanting to finish a container of ice cream. Its not such a bad thing when the container only holds a little over 5 ounces vs. a whole pint or more)

Weigh in results:
Down 1.4 pounds!!! :)  *insert crazy happy dance here*






Goals for next week (aka. Things I want to do this week):

• Workout 4 days (going to focus on getting the days in again. once I do that I'll worry about the number of APs I'm earning)
• Lights out by 10:30pm (resetting my lights out time from it getting pushed later this week)
• Stay within points for the week (dailys + weeklies) 

I'm a bit nervous about food stuff for the coming week. Going to be at a friend's Wednesday and Thursday, and will either still be at the friend's place or meeting up with a different friend on Friday at the outlets (I will know on Monday what is going on for Friday for sure). Also, on Tuesday I need to take my car in to be fixed (hour drive each way). I need to do some major food planning for the week. I know I'm going to need the bulk of my weekly points for the end of the week, and it makes me a bit nervous to use them up so close to my weigh in, but with my week being the way it is, there's no other way to do things that won't leave me crazy stressed about what I can or can't eat. I'm not planning to go overboard with my eating or anything, but I want to be able to enjoy my food and time with my friends without having to be a total pain about food.