these are all great things to focus on for week #2! in the past three years exercise has become a regular part of my life so i don't worry as much now about whether or not i'll do it - i know i will. that being said, when i first started i committed to at least 20-mins a day for 6 days a week, and i SCHEDULED it in my calendar. if you have a smartphone or an online calendar i REALLY recommend scheduling it in, then you see it there every day, and the time you say you're going to do it. not only does it keep you accountable, but it lets you plan ahead and think about what each day is like and where you can get your exercise in! i recently moved my exercise time to 5:30am so that i could no longer make ANY excuses about why i wasn't getting in my exercise, even when i was super busy! it's been working great! schedule your workout like you would a meeting, non-negotiable!

so i had an nsv last night! i had planned a date night with my man (we have a groupon for this restaurant near us) so i looked at the menu and planned ahead of what i was going to eat. i was running a few errands before we went out and friends of ours asked if we wanted to join them for dinner and drinks. we hadn't see these friends in a few weeks so we decided to go and have a fun night! i was worried at first (all my planning gone to waste!) but while waiting in line at CVS i immediately googled the new restaurant and checked out there menu, and lucky form me they had the same meal that i was planning on eating (a delicious beet salad with walnuts and goat cheese with a glass of chardonnay)! i planned on allowing myself one drink after dinner in addition to my glass of wine and then either another drink, a little appetizer, or a snack when i got home. well i split a mini lobster taco with a friend (it wasn't really a taco and we took off 99% of the tortilla and just ate the lobster haha) and then i had a vodka soda. i was definitely a little tipsy when i got home and i was craving something else to eat (this just shows what alcohol does to your blood sugar because i had eaten enough calories and i wasn't actually hungry - i was just craving because i was unsatisfied!). so i came home and ate two 50 cal reduced fat cheese sticks (not a bad option). it was the first day in three weeks i went over 1300 cals (because of my work meal plan), so i was a little worried about that but i knew that i had made good choices all night and that i had FUN! i woke up this morning... and i was down a POUND (132.2 lbs). now of course that is a scale victory, but why it's really an NSV is that i was able to plan head, pick out a good healthy meal, budget my cals for alcohol, and even had a little snack at home and STILL do ok! i am really proud of myself for that and it gives me confidence that i can go out to dinner and eat well! so much so that i might go out to dinner again tonight with just my man! hehe!

ok, i'm off my saturday morning turbo kick class! have a great day everyone!!!