It's funny how Monday hate seems to be a universal thing. I know I had a lot of troubles crawling out of bed this morning. I do love this time of year though, winter tends to bum me out a little. It's no so much the cold weather but more the fact that when I leave for work in the morning it's pitch black, and when I leave it is also pitch black. So spring time is like a re-awakening. :happy:

Shorty - don't you hate it when you injury yourself in your sleep?! I've done that too, after a 9hour flight to Germany, and then another 2 hours to Croatia I passed out on my inlaws couch and literally slept for 12hours straight in the same position with my arm twisted behind me. I still have troubles with my shoulder.

I've had troubles sticking to healthy eating on the weekends. Not that I would totally pig out, more just my schedule being off. This past weekend though I did OK. Saturday I didn't skip lunch, and we only ate out once, for Sunday breakfast with friends.

My goal is to work out every day this week. 3 days of intense cardio, and 2 days light cardio and weights. I'm also going to get my 6-8 servings of fruits and veggies every day!

Hope everyones Monday's start going better.

MONDAY!! I had to be at work 30 mins early :grumble: to get a head start on my month end work. The guys worked Saturday so it will be a heavy billing day! I'm going to be all over the AR person cause she moves every slow :grumble: and I can't close the month out until she completes the billing!!:sad:

Other than that everything is great. My knee feels better, the kids are not acting up and the dogs didn't tear anything up in the middle of the night!

Monday monday monday...

My body is very sore from my first real extended baseball practice in years. It is a "good sore" i can feel i was using my muscles for a change. Feels even better than those weekends of doing yard work. The down side, i think i may have really hurt my shoulder. Old rotator cuff from years back... I had ice on y shoulder so long my skin froze.

I found some exercises that i can do during the week to strengthen those 4 little muscles in my arm... now if i can cut the time out of my day to get them done.

My wife is working harder than ever, cheating less and getting more flustered at the lack of measurable results. She looks better and feels better, but as someone who deals in spreadsheets for 40 hours a week, she need to be able to chart it to believe it. I am proud of all her hard work, and hope she feels less discouraged as i attempt to reassure her.

...and i want chicken wings.

Yep, Monday's suck, esp the last Monday of the month, b/c I have LOTS of paperwork to get done at work! Proud to say with the help of coffee, it all got turned in on time this morning! Well, my candy order was like 20 minutes late, but that happens when customers start flowing in....Speaking of customers, my first customer of the day was such a B#$&*!!! Not the way I wanted to start the day! She made me so angry! Anyways, I have some work still I have to do, just don't feel like doing it, so I'm sitting here writing!! LOL! Really tired and hungry, which seems to be the daily trend now! Lastnight, I got home from work around 6:45 and past out and got up at 10pm! Yeah, didn't work out like I planned. Watched new show, "Client List" on Lifetime and then back to sleep again around 1am! Somehow, I can never take just a short little nap anymore, it always turns into hours!

Anyone have any ideas to what they would like this weeks challenge to be???

Susie- seems like you have a very sweet hubby!

Bishop Smurf- awww so sweet!

The scale hasn't been moving in the right direction for me either!

Shorty- it always amazes me how we can injure ourselves while sleeping! hope your neck feels better soon!

Well, I guess I procrastinated long enough, I am going to try and get more work done...I'll probably be back again soon! lol! :laugh:

Challenge is up. Sorry for the delays. My west coast schedule means you can expect to see the new challenge by 3:00 pm EST. Sorry Paul you will just have to guess wildly at what it will be for the day. :-) I think the three tier total exercise minutes challenge is going to be a permanent part of the challenge. At least for me, it really pushed me forward this week! Let me know if you think the minutes need to be adjusted at all.

Debbie & Susie - I had a similar disappointment this week. Weigh in today had me up a pound. I am trying to take it in stride knowing that I worked hard on exercise this last week.

Amanda - We can be weekend focus buddies! I didn't track from Friday through Sunday though I was trying to be a little good (and sometimes succeeding). My personal Challenge goal for this week is to track daily as honestly as possible.

Paul - Your fancy metric system is not fooling me! I'll take your ~2lb loss if you don't want it. ;-)

lilpe5512 - Did you have exercise totals from last week you wanted to report to the challenge? Also, maybe a nickname we could use for you?

Stacy - Sorry you won't be joyfully dancing this week. :-( Hope your foot feels better soon!

BishopSmurf - Chicken wings are my weakness! So glad I don't know where to get good ones around here. Also, you are clearly in the running to win most supportive partner in the 30s!

**I'll add in a list of peoples names at the top.

Ok, be back later. May your Monday be short and uneventful!

Sara Grace

I'm not supportive enough to go to Zumba. :laugh:

I'm not supportive enough to go to Zumba. :laugh:

I don't know that everyone is familiar with our poor friend JR's Zumba debacle . . .

And Debbie, BishopSmurf is technically Todd, but he goes by many other monikers . . . Bishop does happen to be the most frequently used.

I respond to many things:
Todd
Bishop
11
T-Dizzel
Tizzel
*kitten*
Toad
Tiddels
Poo-face
R2-Dad-2


...But Todd or Bishop are the most common.

And Benny . . . I forget the full version of that one . . .