Hot 100 Week 7 Update

Here’s my Week 7 HOT 100 Update!

1. Nurture my Body, Soul & Mind
• I really need to spend some Me, Myself & I time every day and focus on grounding myself. When I am not grounded I find I swing all over the place. I'm unorganized, stressed, a little more negative towards myself and possibly judgmental to others.
• Week 7 (Nov 5^th Nov11th): (A-) – I did well again this week, maybe not every day but what time I did spend was good. I’ve created my “space” in my basement (finished) beside my fireplace. I go there to take a few minutes at the end of the day just to sit, maybe read, maybe not… I have noticed an improvement in my quality of sleep.
2. Put 110% effort into my 3x strength training sessions, and 3x Interval cardio sessions
• In the last 2 years, I do not feel like I have worked at my hardest during my workouts. I've just been going through the motions. Now some days my body aches, and my muscles are sore but I still feel I could do more. I am going to try to do my absolute best without burning myself out. And in order to not burn out, I need to make sure that goal #1 is a priority.
• Week 7 (Nov 5^th Nov11th): (A+) Well that improvement in sleep could just be because I’m working my butt off in the gym and at home. In fact, I am finding my workouts at home better. At the gym I have to wait for equipment or feel silly bouncing between sets and doing jumping jacks for cardio in between. At home I am free to act as silly as I want.
3. 90/10 rule for eating.
• 90% of the time I want to eat organic, clean, healthy meals. As few chemicals as possible. 10% (or less) of the time will be my leeway. Those times where either the supply isn't available or I just need a "free" meal. I loathe to grant myself a free "DAY" as I can quickly undo everything I have gained during the previous six days of eating 100% on track.
• Week 7 (Nov 5^th Nov11th): (B-) I’m grading myself a bit lower this week because although I have eaten good, there were a couple of days where I didn’t do so good. It is getting better though and I am keeping track and becoming more aware of what is going in my mouth. It’s not so much what as it was how much.
4. Track an average of 10,000 steps every day.  
• Every day is not too much of a stretch. Even on easy days where all I want to do is walk, then I will walk 10,000 steps worth. That's only about an hour of walking really. It can be done.
• Week 7 (Nov 5^th Nov11th): (B-) again, not sure if I will be able to get to 10,000 steps a week and I think this will continue as long as I focus on strength training rather than cardio.
5. Stop being wasteful.
• Sometimes at the end of the week I throw out more bad fruit and veggies than I should be. I need to learn to only buy what I need for a couple of days and then make sure I eat it. I hate waste and I sometimes over-buy a product and it goes bad by the time I eat it. I live close to a grocery store so I should only buy a couple of days’ worth.
• Week 7 (Nov 5^th Nov11th): (B) this week wasn’t so good. I ended up throwing out some stuff like expired yogurt and sour cream. It was more condiment related than anything. This weekend we are also emptying out our trailer and winterizing it. Chances are good I will be throwing out stuff from there that has become damp or just plain old.

I hope you all had a great week!

Ttyl

Sandra