GOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLL!
OK, no one is running around my house tooting on their vuvuzelas, but they should be! I set a few goals for the week and I met them. This is huge for me. If you remember last week, my goal was accountability, tracking everything I was eating, drinking and any exercise, and I must say it went well. Even my old friends on MyFitnessPal that have seen me come and go many times, are a bit impressed that I've tracked for a whole week. Mind you it's not always pretty, I mean when you are in the car for 4 straight hours, picking up and dropping off kid after kid, sometimes a Kit Kat bar is dinner.
Let me break this down a little better ala Clint Eastwood:
The Good: Tracking. If I ate it, I wrote it. The program made me see I needed to add more protein everyday, and the recipe section helped come up with yummy ways to do just that. This has been a huge help as the scale showed a 2.6 pound loss this morning!
The Bad: The above mentioned Kit Kat plus many late evening snack. On the bright side it was Orville's 94% fat free butter popcorn.
The Ugly: I blew the dust off my membership and headed back to the gym. Why is it no matter what treadmill I choose, Biff and Buffy marathon runners always get on the equipment next to me? Guess it's better than sweaty pastrami guy or way-too-much perfume girl. This workout was pathetic. What I used to do as a warm-up a year ago, now seems to be my top speed. How did I get here (oh yeah, chocolate)?
My goal for this week is to keep tracking and add in a minimum of 3 trips to the gym. Make that 3 workouts at the gym so I don't cheat and just stop in for a bottle of water :) Nothing to lofty, just enough to get me going.
Enough about fitness, on to fabulousness! I mentioned last week I was going to make a big change, and I did, I went back to school! This career change seems to be a perfect fit, but there is still a part of me fighting it, probably because my husband doesn't really support the idea. My first class is an introduction to the travel industry. It's meant to give you a broad taste of work in the airline and hotel industry, event planning and travel agencies. Plus, we have one of the top 10 travel agents in the country here in my hometown, and she is willing to bring me on upon completion of the class! Perfect lady to show me the ropes.
Once again, Mr. Eastwood:
The Good: Small class, there are only 10 of us. Because I've traveled a lot and had a relative with the airlines, everything that we talked about in the overview class made perfect sense to me. Heck, the other students even think I'm cool because I write for a Disney related blog.
The Bad: Every other student could be my child. Yep, I am the oldest one. During break they were all talking about their favorite designers and where to go clubbing, while I'm writing a grocery list and making sure I have a backup driver in case class gets out too late to pick up my kids.
The Ugly: Airline codes!!! How in the heck can TYS be Knoxville, Tennessee or SDF be Louisville, Kentucky? I am lucky I can remember what I had for lunch, who can remember 3 little letters that don't correspond to anything? Give me an MEM anyday of the week.
I am looking forward to these challenges, and I'll get those codes memorized. Someone's gotta show these young whipper snappers how it's done.
Til next week...
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