Four weeks in, I can’t believe it has been a month. Overall I’m doing wonderful, though I’m a little frustrated with my weight. I’m following the program, I know what I’m eating and burning thanks to the Bodybugg I wrote about yesterday, yet I’m on a plateau.
Max 10 hours per week of TV – Back under the limit this week.
- Double Shot at Love (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet this week. The DVR didn’t record it when it was supposed to so I set it to record a re-run later on.
- Knight Rider (1 hr) – The cheese I was worried about was only a short part of the last episode, so I’m now looking forward to the rest of the season. With the change in leadership they just put in place, I think it has many more avenues it can take to keep it interesting.
- Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Haven’t watched this yet. Been too busy with other things.
- Biggest Loser (2 hrs) – Wow, talk about screwing your team mate over. I think Dan and Dave would have been able to stay if Dave hadn’t spouted off about being able to do just as well at home. The video showed he couldn’t, and I think he gave up. Unfortunately he also took his friend out too.
- Dirty Jobs (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet. DVR skipped this one too for some reason so it’ll have to record later on.
- Grey’s Anatomy (1 hr) – Not only are they offing Izzy’s “dead husband” story arc, it appears based on previews that they may be offing the Izzy character altogether! This is actually disappointing as I’ve always been a fan of Katherine Heigl ever since I saw her in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory when I was a teenager.
- ER (1 hr) – Falling behind on watching this one.
- 24 (1 hr) – Behind on this one too. Its amazing that since I’ve been actively reducing my TV viewing, I’m not finding time to watch the shows that I truly DO want to watch. I guess this is a prime example of changing a habit.
- Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I actually haven’t watched anything extra this week.
At least 2 books per month – Goal met.
- Otherland: River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams – Finished. Twilight was supposed to be next, but we loaned it to a friend since I wasn’t quite ready yet. That’ll give me a chance to fly through a couple of shorter books in the queue.
- The Real America by Glenn Beck – Finished.
- The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman – Originally decided to read this mainly to see if she actually knows what she is talking about or if she is purely TV hype and has sold some books because of it. I’m about half way through it, and I have to say she really does have some good ideas. I’m starting to think she is selling herself short by being a shill for FICO on her TV show since it is blowing gaping holes in her credibility.
Minimum 3 blog postings per week – Met. All 3 were posted yesterday, which is not the intent of the goal to rush through at the last moment to make it happen. In defense on that point, 2 of the 3 were postings were already done in rough draft form with the intention of publishing them earlier, but didn’t get a chance to polish them up on time.
100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – I’m actually up 0.4 pounds direct weight this week, but 0.89 pounds down on the averaged trend. I’m frustrated with this slight gain, but at the same time I also had a very low weight in the middle of the week which would have put me at 1.5 pounds down. Plateaus happen, and since I’ve had 2 weeks straight like this, I should see a pretty sudden drop as my body gives up on trying to hold that extra weight.
Budget – No update here. Unless we have a wild blow-out week where we go on a spending spree, this goal is really measured every other week as we review our performance on the last 2 weeks and plan the next 2.