| 2/4/2008 Weekly Check In
I spent a lot of last week catching up on much needed rest and took a few days off my day job. Still got my 15 minutes of toning worked in three of four days. I stuck to the diet changes (lifestyle changes I am trying to make not diet). I made good choices when we ate out (except once) and I cook healthy meals at home. I didn't do any planned workout over the weekend and I think that will probably be the norm. However, I did saw and lop off tree branches up the big hill on our driveway and cleared a trail of limbs and small trees so I got a workout. Moved a few 50# bags of feed and set out bales (of course the tractor did most the work on that but I did have to lift the monster haybale ring).
The major change I made this week was in the area of nutrition. Not what we eat but how we eat. With two adult children at home it's usually only me and my youngest at most meals, I got into a habit of just setting out food on the buffet and eating in front of the television. This week we ate every meal at the dining room table. The big change is I announced to even the adult kids that dinner is at 6pm and set the table and expected them to let me know if they wouldn't be home for dinner. I got great results with one adult child but the real blessing came from being able to see what my youngest was actually eating. I am not trying to coerce them into eating dinner with me but I figure this way they can quit complaining cause I don't have food in the house for them to eat. They want easy to heat junk food at their disposal and I am offering healthy choices. Even my sweet tooth is grabbing apples for after school snacks because that is all there is. Yesterday he even told me how good these apples were.  | 
