Positive Life Changes

Positive Life Changes:

I am slowly working on changing some things in my life for the better, I hope. And it helps me to journal about them. And since my blog has more or less taken over for my personal journal, I'm recording them here.

Since my big weight loss I have been able to maintain my weight so far. But lately, in the past 2-3 months I have not watched what I have eaten quite so well though I have done better with the exercise lately I'm still striving to do better since I'm training for the race next month.

So obviously, I'm working on diet. I'm surprised my weight hasn't really crept up as I've not been quite so strict with myself on eating. Though it has crept up about 2.5 pounds. I have managed to stay pretty steady at 108. And I'd rather be at 108 and eat what I want than to be at 106 and have to watch constantly. Those 2 pounds don't affect how my clothes fit and I'm still at a healthy weight for my frame so I can be okay with that weight.

And with exercise, I'm documenting my exercise for today only for me to have it for future reference to be able to compare it with when I documented it in my Wacky post last Friday. I also want to be able to compare it to future exercise I will do. Plus it seems as though I surpassed the number of calories I burned on Friday long before I ever hit the 32:33 seconds of exercise (the magic number I did the elliptical last week). So I want to investigate why that is since I did work out at a higher intensity for longer on Friday.

656 calories burned.
205 fat calories burned.
40:30 time I exercised on the elliptical.
Resistance: 9 for 11 minutes; 8 for 29:30

Also, we are trying to have people over more. We've been doing good with that, but we need to keep it up. This is not the easiest thing for us because it is not the way either of us grew up. And Laren just isn't a super social sort of guy. Although personally, I do prefer being social.

And finally my housework. I'm trying to keep that up as well. I'm still really lacking but at least I'm making more progress now than I did before.

Here are my Mom/housework goals for today:

*Laundry (1-2 loads only, washed, dried folded & put away)
*Pick up house (Do a 10 min tidy morning & evening)
*Vacuum
*Declutter Paper
*Clean Bathrooms
*Make VTing appts.
*Make well child Dr. appts. for Kayla and Kyle
*Make appt. for family and individual pictures
*Take Kayla to and from Running Club
*Take Kyle to Baseball practice.
*Make sure Laren gets our State Taxes out.
*Get my pics and stuff together for SPT Tuesday!
*Make dinner (leftovers!)
*Make sure my kids do their homework and chores.
*Spend time with my kids.

So far today,

-I've exercised for 40 minutes
-gotten all the kids off to school
-made arrangements for Kayla and 2 of her friends to practice their dance for -the school talent show tryouts tomorrow during lunch. The talent show tryouts are on Wednesday.
-called one of the friends' Mom to let her know they need the music on the mp3 player and they can feed it into the stereo in that way for their tryouts, and also that the girls need to bring a sack lunch as they will practice during lunch time and eat during recess time.