Perfect 10 Update - Last One

Well I certainly ended this challenge with a resounding bang. Having being in meetings all week from early morning to late afternoon, my eating has not been all that good. The food they have supplied for lunches has not been all that healthy but I did manage to do OK. For not having a sweet tooth, I have eaten more sugar this past 5 days than I have ever before. It was there, and since I needed help staying awake some afternoons after the carb filled lunch, I ate the lifesavers. But I have been keeping up on the strength training sessions and did get a few walks in. No hot yoga but I am going back this weekend. I miss it terribly.

And it’s been tough not keeping up on everyone’s blogs. I feel out of touch this week. But today, I have a few minutes to get this sent out and then off to my meeting for the rest of the day. I’ll hopefully be sending out something worthwhile tomorrow.

So here goes:

• Log my Food – I feel I have done fairly good on this for the last 10 weeks. I’d give myself a grade of 75% because I did really well 5/7 days. In the beginning of the year, it was more like 7/7 but the last month I’ve not been logging as much on the weekends. I know this is  something I need to work on so am going to continue to focus on logging until I am 100% sure of the amounts I am eating.
• Lose 10lbs. – Nope, I lost somewhere around 4.7lbs. I forgot to weigh myself this morning so I won’t have the final number until tomorrow. I’ve stayed pretty static the last 3 weeks so I suspect it will be around the same. But considering I lost 10lbs in the total of 2009, I’m ok with only losing 4.7 the first 10 weeks. My BF% via caliper has gone down quite a bit, and my LBW has gone up, so scale weight really is not accurate for me. In fact, I plan on not weighing myself much for the next while and going by caliper and measuring tape only to keep me motivated.
• Exercise min 5x week – I have definitely aced this goal. I took up Hot Yoga, working out with a Personal Trainer 2x week, ST 1x week on my own or attending a Body Pump class, signed up to walk 60 miles for the Kidney Foundation…. So I Think I will continue to do well in this area.
• Schedule One Cheat day – Yep- I’m failing myself on this one. I need to try to limit it to one cheat MEAL not DAY and am getting much better at it, but the key factor I’m missing is the ONE. Only ONE day, not TWO times a week.
• And as for the cleanse – with all the exercising I’ve been doing, it is not something I felt was to my benefit so I did not do this one.

So for the little known fact about me…

I liked Steve’s idea so I’m going to use it.

Growing up in a small town, I was a very confident, outgoing, outspoken little girl (some called me bratty J). Then when I moved to the big city when I was 11 years old, a complete transformation came over me. I attended an open area school, where they had a large amount of students in one class. I went from everyone knowing me, to having 7 Sandra’s in the same class. I suffered an identity crisis. I became such in introvert, very shy, and self conscious of myself. It was a very tough thing to go through at that age. I eventually came out of my shell but it took years and years (teenage life sucked). Even now as an adult, I am not as shy, but I cannot handle being the center of attention. This means that public speaking is not for me because as soon as all heads turn to me to listen to what I have to say, I flush red and get all flustered. It’s better the older I get (must be the “I don’t care anymore” attitude), and I can talk quite freely with strangers, but when all heads swing to listen, I clam up... Mind you it depends on how confident I am about what I’m  speaking about.

I hope you all have a fantastic day, and it’s been fun doing this challenge together.

Sandra