I’m feeling very good about my progress this week. I was home sick yesterday so I ate more sodium (threw off my weight) and watched more TV than normal, but that is an exception, not the rule. Overall I did well if yesterday is factored out.
Max 10 hours per week of TV – Over the limit, but was home sick yesterday and consequently watched more TV than normal. If I had not watched the extra episodes of Solitary I would be well under.
- Knight Rider (1 hr) – Didn’t watch yet.
- Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Watched one episode, still several behind. I can’t imagine the feelings people would go through to strive for this perfect solution to literally all of their problems, only to find out that solution was only a dream and failed to produce.
- Biggest Loser (2 hrs) – Finally got rid of the Silver team! Yay! I felt bad for Carla as she worked her butt off just to have Joelle throw it all away for her, but that’s the breaks and they chose to be together as a team. And then when they met afterward for Joelle to keep saying she tried when it was very obvious she didn’t was beyond annoying. She has some issues with personal responsibility for sure. It was too bad to see the black team get split up too, but I was glad to see the brown team got to stay for another week with a phenominal loss!
- Dirty Jobs (1 hr) – Was pretty gunny watching Mike separate out dirty diapers from last week’s episode. Went to watch this week’s but the wife was too freaked out about watching anything to do with spiders right before bed.
- Grey’s Anatomy (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet.
- ER (1 hr) – Didn’t watch this either.
- 24 (1 hr) – Still behind on this, but I can’t wait to get started. Marathon didn’t happen yet. I did notice the DVR was missing one episode so we’ll have to catch that one on Hulu if its there.
- Solitary 3.0 (5 hrs recorded) - What a crazy show! It is amazing how far these contestants will push themselves for $50K. I have not watched all of the episodes I’ve recorded yet, but I have watched 3 of them.
- Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I’ve watched a few episodes of The Dave Ramsey Show. Dish finally added Fox Business to their lineup, though I had to increase my programming package in order to get it. It may seem odd to spend more money ($10 per month) to watch a show where the primary theme is saving money but I get more than that in motivation over a period of a month, plus there are several more channels (like the Science Channel and Discovery Kids) that we will enjoy too.
At least 2 books per month -January’s goal met, on track for February.
Minimum 3 blog postings per week – Got this one done this week with plenty of time to spare! I should be able to do the same this week too.
100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – Up 1.5 pounds direct weight this week, but if I go by yesterday’s weight I’m down 4.2 lbs. I had quite a bit of sodium yesterday being home sick eating raman noodles, so I think today is artificially high. Even with today’s higher weight I am still 1.65 pounds down on the averaged trend. If I use yesterday’s weight (its easy to be artificially high, but not artificially low) I’m on-track for my long term goal.
Budget – We never did set down and do our budget for the last pay period as I mentioned before, but even so we still didn’t overspend and come up short. We made a few smaller trips to the grocery store, rather than one big trip, but overall we did very well having considering ourselves as completely slacking off this time around. We will be going over our specific budget before this week’s paycheck to get back on the wagon.