Week in review.

This week, I feel I did pretty well. I met one and a half of the three goals I set for myself. I feel like I met by far the biggest one, which was actually going to yoga class. I halfway accomplished what I wanted to in the healthy snack department, and I did not walk one and a half miles, since I was derailed by a very sore throat.

In the food department I made good choices at home, but did not make good choice in snacking and that is reflected on the scale. I plan to turn this little blip around in the next week. I ate waaayyy too much chocolate. I thought/hoped I would have the self control to stick to one serving a day if I got very nice lovely chocolate. Instead I polished of the box in three sittings. Now this, I have to point out, is a step in the right direction for me, since I would have polished off that same box in just one sitting in the past. The past being one or two months ago.

I am still in the area of fatness where you are so fat that you can't tell the difference if you lose two pounds or gain two pounds. No matter how hard I stare in the mirror to try and see if my gut is a little bit smaller, it just looks the same.

My throat is on fire, I feel absolutely sapped of all enthusiasm and strength, and we also got some less than stellar news regarding DH's continuing health care saga.

So a summery of this week
Actual food/meals: very good
Snacking: very bad
Exercise: great but not quite as stellar as I aimed for
Scale: up
Outlook: not that good/bleak

The bleak outlook has less to do with my weight and health than it does with my finances. I just joined a handy site I found called spending diary, where you can enter in every penny you spend every day and create your own categories for them. So instead of just "retail store" which is what my bank spending report calls Target, I can categorize every minute purchase, such as sunglasses and earrings, which goes under category "indulgence".

The thing is that DH and I are quite dreadfully in debt. I had a big old chunk of credit card debt to begin with and then he had 3 major surgeries this year. We are spending more on credit card debt per month than we are on rent. I told him that we are going to have to track every penny so we can see where we are being wasteful and get back on track. I feel if this works for calories it will also work for penny, n'est pas?

My new years resolutions are thus
Be less fat
Be less in debt
as a result, be calmer and happier