Week 2

Week 2 has gone well - stayed away from the burgers, fries and cokes that I would have had prior to starting the project. We traveled a lot this week and boy there sure aren't many places that offer healthy food for those on the road. I did pick salads and bottled water at the places we stopped. Now my next goal is the preplanning. I am a working mother of 3 and think it would really benefit me to pre plan all my meals for the week. I have heard of people doing this and know that there are companies out there that allow you to go to their business and do it. I would just like to start off at my home. This might be something we can get a few members of the project together to do. Not sure how to put something together like that, but I know it would help me. I just need healthy recipes. I have noticed as I go through my recipe book - those recipes passed down from family etc. are all horrible for my family. YIKES! So anyone who has recipes for a family of 5 that are healthy but kid friendly - I am all ears. Hope you all had  a great week and I look forward to making even more progress this coming week!!

Week 1 down

Wow - what a week! Even though I didn't accomplish all as planned this week - what a transformation I have experienced. As I look at my nutrition journal, I noticed some pluses and deltas as we use in the administrative world.
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• went from a coke or more a day to only one this week
• drank 287.3 oz or 2.2 gallons of water this week
• felt more refreshed in the mornings than I have in awhile
• did my 1 mile run in 13 minutes
• did aerobic exercise and got my heart pumping fast
• feel proud of what I can do

Deltas (what I still need to work on)

• try strength workouts as scheduled next week
• try yoga sessions as scheduled
• plans meals on Sunday

Another great thing happened this week - it was stressful, but I was successful!
I defended my PhD proposal and have passed. :-)  Now on to the actually study and data analysis and then by May - Dr. Rinehart ;-)  YIPPEE