The last 4-week report EVAH! (#10) - 10/15/03

No, I'm not doing away with report cards entirely...just switching to monthly, rather than every 4 weeks. It's easier to keep track of, and solves that pesky problem of having a 4-week report on TOM week. Now it will only happen every once in a while, instead of EVERY FLUCKING TIME.

Anyway, what were my goals for the last 4 weeks, again (the fact that I cannot remember them is probably a good indicator of my level of success)?

Diet/Exercise: 10 or more leftover flexpoints each week.

Fruit/Veggies: 3 per day.

Weight Loss: 5 lbs.

Size Loss: 3 inches.

Water: 6 cups/day.

Cooking: eat at home 5 nights/week.

Lunches: 4 12-or-less point lunches.

Click OPEN WIDE>> for report card and new set of short-term goals.

REPORT CARD

Diet & Exercise: Didn't make it. Not even once. If I average the four weeks, I get a weekly flexpoints balance of...(drum roll)... -5. And that's being generous, since I stopped recording about midway through yesterday. I estimated 11 flexpoints used, and that was probably low. No, I don't want to talk about it.

There was one week that I came close to having a balance of 10 (7 left over in week 39), but the rest of the weeks were all over the credit limit, so to speak. On the bright side, it would have been a lot worse if not for the staggering (for me, anyway) number of activity points earned--averaged over 20/week! Grade: IF(Impressively Fail)

Fruits & Veggies: I was SOOO close. In 4 weeks, I ate 63 fruit/veggie servings. 2.5 per day. Another apple a day, and I would have HAD it. Damn. Grade: B

Weight Loss: Eh. Started with 188, ended with 185.5. Exactly half of what I wanted. And I was doing so well there for a while...breakdown:

Grade: C

Size Loss: Whole lot of nuthin' on this one. I did shrink an inch in the hips, but gained one at the waist, so it balanced perfectly. Everything else stayed the same, though I could have sworn my long-sleeved shirts fit better through the upper arms this month. Ah, well.

I also added a measurement this week that I'm going to be tracking for future monthly reports. After much inner turmoil about the way I was measuring my bust, I finally decided to start tracking both under the breasts and including them. Measurements were...

Bust, under: 34.5
Bust, across: 39
Waist: 34 (+1)
Hips: 45 (-1)
Thighs: 21.5
Calves: 15.5
Arms: 13

Grade: D

Water: Just over 3 cups, not the 6 I wanted. I don't really have any explanation of this, except maybe that I wasn't thirsty. Maybe it explains the dry eyes and skin, though. Grade: C

Cooking: I ate dinner at home 14 times, a little over 3 per week. There were no perfect weeks, but I did get one where I ate at home 6 times. Grade: C

Lunches: Again, soo close. My average was 3.8something. Grade: B

Didn't meet a single goal. Not ONE. No wonder I only lost 2 lbs. and change.

NEW SHORT-TERM GOALS

I'm going to scale the weight and size goals down a bit, since we are switching to monthly reports, beginning the first week in November. This gives me only three weeks to get there.

Diet/Exercise: 10 or more leftover flexpoints each week.

Fruit/Veggies: 3 per day.

Weight Loss: 3.5 lbs.

Size Loss: 1 inch.

Water: 6 cups/day.

Cooking: eat at home 5 nights/week.

Lunches: 4 12-or-less point lunches/week.

I think I need a fight song, or something.