Hot 100 Week 9

Here’s my Week 9 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 9 (Nov 19^th-25th): (A-) – I’ve done really well in this area. I’ve spent some quality on myself for the last 2 weeks. I’m starting to feel “normal” again.
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 9 (Nov 19th-25th): (c-)I know this is a poor excuse but with this really cold weather, I have not wanted to go to the gym and have only wanted to head straight home at the end of the day. And unfortunately my workout space has been taken over by boxes and boxes of stuff as I’m pulling out my Christmas stuff from under the stairs. Anyway, I’ve been getting up at 4:00 and getting on the treadmill and doing the JM Kettlebell shred but nothing much after work but cleaning and organizing and trying to keep warm. I could have done much better in this area.
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 9 (Nov 19^th-25th): (B-) I’ve done fairly good in this area but there is room for improvement. I’ve been tracking my calories and trying really hard to keep within my limits. There have been some days though that I have gone a bit over but nothing huge.
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 9 (Nov 19th-25th): (C-) Haven’t even worn the pedometer lately but I KNOW I’m only averaging about 6000 steps per day.
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 9 (Nov 19^th-25th):  Haven’t been doing too bad in this area.

I have been in a funk for about 2.5 weeks but the last 4 days I seem to be coming out of it. My mood is lighter and I’m feeling a bit more energetic. I’m pretty sure it is related to Menopause (sorry guys) as the evasive Uncle Tom finally showed up and the bloat, yucky feeling I’ve been feeling for the last month seems to have abated a bit. I KNOW too much information.

My PC is working again, it was as simple as a loose cable. The boys must have been horsin’ around in the office (which is also their room)  last weekend and gave the PC a good bump. Shouldn’t have been loose cables in the first place but it was and now I’ve reseated everything to confirm it is in there solid. I will send out some more blogs this weekend!

Hope everyone is doing great!

Ttyl

Sandra