Breaking the trend

So, unfortunately, I don’t have good news to report this week again. Over spring break and this week I didn’t exercise significantly and I went on a fast food binge. My spring break was anything but relaxing because I had so much to do in preparation for my mom coming back to the United States. I was running around getting documents, finding an apartment for her, and numerous other things. Even though I didn’t have school that week, I still had to work, a lot! I haven’t cooked a single meal since two weeks ago. My meals have consisted of Cook Out, Bojangles, Burger King, Taco Bell, and Buffalo Wild Wings. Because of my lack of substantial food I have noticed that I am tired more often and I feel bloated half the time.

I did complete most of the check list I set up last time, so it does work. This week I decided I will do something similar.

This week I am going to pop open some of the magazines I have lying around and go to the section with the easy at home exercises. Every morning when I wake up and every night before I sleep, I am going to do at least 30 minutes of those exercises.

And of course, I am going to invite some friends over and have an intense Dance Central competition on the Kinect. For anyone who wants to exercise but doesn’t feel motivated to do it, I do recommend the Kinect. There is a new one coming out during the holidays that actually integrates your room into the game. It is fun and can be a real work out if you take it seriously.

Tonight after class I am actually going to the supermarket and I am going to buy some groceries, since my kitchen is void of real food, and try and get on the right track once again.

 

Wish me luck !!

A Bump in the Road

So, unfortunately, I have cancelled my subscription to Planet Fitness because I haven't gone in a while and realized I won't be going that often anyway so why pay the money.

But I continue to do fitness video and playing my Kinect at home in order to stay fit. Even though, as the semester continues, I seem to have less and less free time during the week.

And also because of my lack of time, I have been eating out a lot. I think just this week I have spent $50 on food. I’m disappointed at that because with $50, I could have bought groceries to cook something.

I’m sad to report to a blog about progress toward my goal, with giant steps back.

I am really going to put an effort next week to continue the hard work I was doing before.

So I set up a checklist of what to complete before the week is over.

• Jog for at least 45 minutes 3 times.

• Pack a protein filled lunch 4 times.

• Make dinner 3 times.

• Play UFC trainer on the Kinect 3 times.

• Don’t eat after 10pm 4 times.

• Drink energy protein shake 3 times.

To make sure I complete this checklist, I also set up a punishment for not completing it. If I don’t complete this checklist by the weekend, I cannot go out dancing the following week. I already told my roommate about and she is joining me in completing a checklist and enforcing the punishment for each other. Her checklist has a lot of things similar to mine so we can help each other out with it to make it easier.