Rate My Weeks - April 5 - 11 and April 12 - 18

I've been so busy this month! April is a busy month for me at work (quarter-end reports, tax time and extra quarter-end work to be done), it's Alie's birthday month and to add to all of the "regular" April busyness, I've been up to my neck in soccer paperwork and preparations for the Spring season.

Needless to say, I'm behind on rating my weeks. So, for the week of April 5-11, I'm rating my week a 7. I did have three runs, but two of them were a struggle. I'm finding that my weekend runs are just better than weekday runs. I think because I can go early in the morning on weekends and I'm not as pressed for time as I am during the week. I didn't lose any weight, but I didn't gain, either.

For the week of April 12 - 18, I'm rating my week a 7.5. I ran 4 times last week, but only one run was more than 40 minutes (Saturday, 4/18 I ran for 50 minutes - a good run!). No weight loss last week, either, but no gain, so I'm as happy as I could be.

The first soccer game is now behind us - Colby's team won and Alie's team did as well. So, I'm now seeing the fruits of my paperwork labor.

I'm off to visit Pam and the other PSF's at the end of this week, and I'm sooo looking forward to it! It's going to be tough covering my mom duties while I'm gone (I'll miss the kids' soccer games on Sunday and a soccer fundraiser event on Saturday), but Matt will muddle through. Really, I'll work out logistics before I'm gone and have other moms help me out a bit with transporting the kids for me.

My goals for the weeks ahead as far as exercise and health goes are:

1) Continue with the health eating. I'm getting 4-5 fruits and veggies everyday and I'm so happy about that. Other than a few oreos, I'm not eating chocolate or much junk food at all. Also happy about that.

2) Find a way to get more exercise. I've been watching some fitness shows and really reading my fitness mags and I'm just not getting enough exercise to really blast fat and calories. I need to double (at least) my weekly exercise minutes. I'm hoping that when the weather gets warmer (maybe as soon as the beginning of May), Matt and I will be able to start running in the morning again. But, I can't let that be an excuse for me to not increase my exercise minutes right now.

Hoping this week is good for me - the kids are on vacation this week and I've got to get my stuff ready for my girls' weekend at Pam's!