Project 10-3

Welcome to another installment of Project 10. This project seems to be one of the only things motivating me to write blog posts lately. Not that that's a bad thing, because it means I'm busy. Being busy is a good, means I'm not sitting on my arse. :)

• Water. I need to get my average up to 4 cups a day. I am still failing at this. On days I really kick my butt, I'm really good about it but otherwise I fail. I need to do this. I need a reward system. Gold stars, anyone?
• Get to bed by 11 pm every night. I know its the summer, but the boys still wake up early. Totally failing at this. Midnight is a much nicer number. Hell, right now its 12:32. Eff. I'm setting an alarm tomorrow so that I don't sleep so late. 
• Preventative measures. Wear my braces. No questions. Just do it. My knees will eventually thank me. I forgot to wear my braces on Wednesday and my knees did ok, but messing around and hip-checking my mom tonight garnered me some pain in my right knee. Go figure. Obv, there's still room for improvement. 
• Run. Run. Run. Run. Get back on track with my Nike+ goal. I did two runs so far this week, which puts me at 5 more runs before my goal is up. Maybe I'll be able to make this. I'm hoping to get a run in on Sunday and then again on Monday and Wednesday. 
• Add the weights! Tone up those arms and torso. Still failing, but I'm doing more targeted exercises on my arms and torso. I should do weights when I hit the gym though. There's no reason not to. I'm there, aren't I? 
• Get to the gym more. Its easy to take the easy road when I work out at home. The gym pushes me. I went to the gym twice this week, which was nice, but I didn't do any weights and the runs I did log weren't terrific. They weren't bad, but I can do better. I  need to allot more time before my classes to get my exercises done. 
• Utilize pool time with the kids better. When its adult only swim, I need to swim laps. 15 minutes of laps. I did 5 minutes of laps. At least I used the time somewhat well. To my credit though our pool time was significantly cut  down this week, because Small Fry decided that he needed to add some stitches to his attire. We weren't able to hit the pool until today, but I could have used my time better. 

Here's my warrior. Morning after our ER trip. He was such a trooper though.
Slept through the stitches. Wish I could do that. 

• Try out turbo kick at the gym. I've taken it once and it scares me. I should give it a decent 3 tries before saying that its not for me. I did not make it to Turbo Kick this week. I did hit an extra Zumba class, which was great, but I really should try to make it on to Turbo. Next week is another week and another chance. 
• Do more yoga/pilates. I need to stretch and improve my flexibility. Everything hurts and the stretching would feel good. The only stretching that got done was at the end of class. I failed at this and I need to get better about it. My back has been killing me and while part of it is because of my chair and how I sit when I sew the other  part is probably from working so hard. 
• Be 225 by the time school starts in September. That's another 25 pounds in 10 weeks. I know I can do this. This morning, I weighed in at 244. That's another two pounds down from last week. Yay! I managed to do ok at a wedding this past weekend and stay really good about my eating and exercise. I can't wait to keep knocking off the pounds. I was looking at myself today in the morning and decided that  while I've earned my 'baby pouch' I'm not in love with it, but what I dislike more are the smallish love handles. I want to get rid of those. So I'm going to focus more on my abs and obliques. 

Well there's my report for this week. The dress I made for the wedding I mentioned above was great. It felt so good to fit into it and then have to take in the bodice, near the armholes, after I finally got my proper fitting bras. I'm making another dress for my grandmother's 50th anniversary party this weekend and I've had to take in the bodice again, but this dress is more a sheath style than the A-line styling of the last one, and I can't remember the last time I wore something like that. I'm very excited about it. 

So here's my new dress! The wedding was at a winery and the seersucker fabric was wonderfully comfortable while sitting out in the heat of the afternoon sun. Do you guys like my duct tape shoes? I'm going to be  sharing a how-to on Straight Stitches next week on them. :)  Oh you can also see just how short-waisted I am. The belt is actually sitting right at my waist. As my grandfather used to always tell me - I've got legs up to my shoulders. 

I'm going to keep all my goals the same for next week, because well - I didn't do very well. Hopefully this week there are no emergency room trips, near drownings or new injuries. I've had enough excitement for the last couple of weeks. 

See you guys next week!