Project 10-4 (Efffff)

Has it really been another week? Already? Efff. The parties and holidays are not being my friend. They're screwing with my schedule in a big way. I need  to focus. That might be the 11th goal this week. I seriously need to buckle down and get a handle on this summer crap. 

• Water. I need to get my average up to 4 cups a day. Still failing. Although, I did voluntarily start drinking water while visiting my Mom the other day, so while a big fat F it might be an F+. 
• Get to bed by 11 pm every night. I know its the summer, but the boys still wake up early.   Is there something lower than an F that I can give myself?  I don't think I've had one bedtime before midnight this week and I definitely stayed up until 2 one morning reading a new book. This could be a reason why I slept until 10:44 this morning. Eff. 
• Preventative measures. Wear my braces. No questions. Just do it. My knees will eventually thank me. I suppose if I had worked out at all this week, I might have remembered my braces, but I didn't make it to the gym. At all. Remember when I had problems freaking out about the weight returning. Yea - I'm kind of freaking out.  
• Run. Run. Run. Run. Get back on track with my Nike+ goal. So much failure this week. I feel like I need a mulligan. No running happened. Does running after the kids count?  
• Add the weights! Tone up those arms and torso. Does lifting my kids count as weights, cause those would be the only weights I lifted this week. Still logging the failures. 
• Get to the gym more. Its easy to take the easy road when I work out at home. The gym pushes me. Did you see the comment about  not working out? Yea......I am giving myself a big 'ole fat goose egg for this goal.  
• Utilize pool time with the kids better. When its adult only swim, I need to swim laps. 15 minutes of laps. OOOH! Something I didn't fail at! Of course, we only went to the pool once, but that's  because our pool was out of commission for 4 days because of a derecho storm that came through and knocked out power to most of our community. Luckily, we were not affected and were able to enjoy the lovely comforts of our a/c, but many of our friends were not as lucky. Anyways, I got in a solid 45 minutes of laps, and I did feel that exercise for most of  the day. I did concentrate on my form and targeting different muscle groups. 

• 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. ANNNNNNND back to failing........
• Do more yoga/pilates. I need to stretch and improve my flexibility. Everything hurts and the stretching would feel good. Still failing....... 
• Be 225 by the time school starts in September. That's another 25 pounds in 10 weeks. I know I can do this. I have not stepped on a scale in a week, so I have no idea if I lost weight  or not. I did so horribly this week that I'm a little afraid to see the damage. So I'm going to say that I'm still at 244 and I still have work to do. :)

Wasn't that report just full of sunshine and happiness? Do you feel warm and fuzzy? Ugh, I can't believe how bad I was this week. I'm usually pretty disciplined.  The news doesn't get better either. 

I made myself a new dress for my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary party, and I wanted to love it so much more than I did. I mean it didn't look bad and I didn't look bad in it, but I think I just wanted more from it. 

 So there's the dress. Unfortunately, I didn't  get a picture of the back (which is the best part, IMO). The back has a fun metal zipper being shown off, but like I said, the dress didn't fit me the way I imagined it would. I've been having that problem lately though. For this dress, the  waist could have been pulled in a bit and the bodice could be lengthened among other things. 

I made myself a swimsuit today, and again - its not quite right. Sigh. I'm not batting a good average over here, and hopefully it changes soon. I've cut out two more things for me and I am really hoping that they work out because otherwise I may retire to my room for a week, and lord knows  that's not going to put me in a better mood.

I'm going to be keeping all of my goals the same for next week, and maybe - just maybe- I'll be able to accomplish something next week.