I'm Lazy, yep! But not after today!

So, I decided I'm being a little lax in some ways, and a little crazy in others. My old goal sheet was just crazy, asking way too much of myself. I got overwhelmed, I couldn't keep up cause the changes were too fast, and I quit. I started telling myself "tomorrow I will do it". So I changed my goal sheet, I'm only taking on one month at a time, and here is what it looks like.

Goals! February 2011

1.               Get up at 7:15am Monday-Friday, do 30 min of exercise each morning, 3-5 days per week. Options: walk Jabber Jane, Yoga video, Kinect Game, Other exercise video. Total possible workouts of: 15-20, 450min- 600min.

2.           Walk Jabber Jane (my dog)to Oakwood and back every Saturday. 4 times, 1.3 miles each.

3.           Track my eating habits every day on SparkPeople.com (LynaeG, Shawn28)

4.           Weigh in every Sunday morning.

5.           Take my measurements on 14^th Feb and 28^th Feb (Mondays)

6.           Drink a minimum of 64 oz of water per day. 2 newks cups (32 oz cup that I got at Newks Restaurant-they give them to you), or 4 regular glasses.

7.           Eat my protein bars for breakfast & lunch at least five days a week. Snacks at 10:30am, and 3pm must be healthy (fruits/veg).

8.           Read my Scriptures every single day. Preferably in the morning, or when I have spare time at work.

9.           Pray over all my food!

10.  Write in my blog at least once a week.

11.  Remember that FOOD IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR STRESS!

12.  If I EAT it I WRITE it!

13.  Mini goal-lose 5lbs this month!

ULTIMATE: 145 lbs!

I've also had one other thing in my line of thinking that has changed in a way that I think is significant. I had been doing a food journal and I was successfully losing weight. Then I got lazy. This time I didn't put it in my plan, and well, things are not working all that well. So I am putting it back in my plan. Only I am using a website that I have used in the past which has lots of great tracking tools. sparkpeople.com
I took the time to put what I have eaten so far today into the system. The reason I decided to do this is because I was talking to my Mom a few days ago and she said something that I didn't like, but it stuck. She said the RN at her healthy lifestyles clinic told her that the people he sees that have success do one key thing, they keep a record of what they eat. His rule is, "if you bite it, you write it." UGH more work! That's what I thought at the time. I can't, thats another thought I had. Here's my attitude adjustment. I do believe I can lose this weight, and never find it again. So why don't I believe I can do something so simple as put what I ate into a log? hmmmm cause I'm lazy! Well, time to not be lazy anymore. I added tracking my food on SparkPeople to my list of goals.

Mini goal- Lose 5 Lbs in February.
Starting Weight: 214.0 lbs
Goal Weight: 209.0 lbs
Next Weigh In Feb 6th.
I can do this! I can't wait to work on my goals and see where this new attitude takes me!