Holiday Review

So, obviously, I haven't posted since the 21st - which was last Tuesday. Of course I have eaten since then. Of course I've completely neglected my blog. But it was Christmas, what do you expect?

I did really decent with my calorie intake, with the exception of Christmas day on which I ate about 2500 calories. But, hey, that is still pretty good considering the amount of food that was available! My only saving grace Christmas Eve was that I managed to stuff my belly full of cocktail shrimp so I was too full to eat any of the more fattening/high calorie foods sitting out. lol

I did not weigh myself this morning, as I completely forgot what I was doing in the mad rush to actually get to work on time after dreaming all night long about just NOT going to work, or being incredibly late, or forgetting, etc, etc, etc... those dreams are the WORST. I'll weigh in tomorrow and maybe even take the time to do full-scale measurements - not just my waist.

Let me throw my weekend stats out there and then I'll talk a little bit about Christmas..

12/25:

• total calories: 2500 - including a few glasses of wine... delicious. :)
• 30 minutes of Just Dance 2 on the Wii - OH YEAH FUN CARDIO! I'll say maybe 150 calories burned there lol
• maybe 4 cigarettes? I can't remember... I bummed a few off my mom while I was enjoying my wine. 
• 1am bedtime - Mike and I did not do very well on bedtimes the whole weekend because my mom got us a little DVD player for our bedroom and we decided The Lord of the Rings would be the PERFECT before bed movie... lol
• I spent no money over the actual weekend - I spent $15 Thursday night when we went out with some friends. I have $20 leftover from last week. Pretty awesome. Not gonna lie.

12/26:

• total calories: 1655 - I think I was still full from dinner the night before haha
• calories burned: 200 - played Just Dance for about an hour with Mike, may have burned more than this but I'm not gonna over estimate. 
• 0 cigarettes
• 11:30 bedtime - woo!
• $0 spent

We had an excellent Christmas - Santa brought us a Wii!! Mike got me the Just Dance game (in case you didn't pick up on that already lol), we also got Mario Kart Wii and Super Mario Bros Wii... so awesome! We love that thing. James was totally ecstatic over all his gifts and we got some great family movies that we enjoyed watching yesterday. It was so amazing to have all day yesterday to just chill out and play with all the new stuff! I wish Mike and I had had enough vacation to have been able to take this week off work, too, but maybe next year. Although I'm beginning to think I'll NEVER have any vacation time saved up. Seems like every time I get a couple days something comes up and I have to use it for "non-fun" things. :-\  Oh, well. 

So overall: excellent holiday!

I think my main downfall this weekend was the amount of sweets I ate - the majority of my calorie counts Fri-Sun were cookies/pie, etc. I think it might be a bit tough to break that habit this upcoming week of wanting to stuff my face with sugar. We'll see how it goes. I'm planning to hit the gym a least 3 times this week. I'm thinking that shouldn't be too difficult since we have Friday off and I'm sure the gym will be open almost-normal hours that day. I did, however, forget to grab my gym bag to bring to work this morning - but I'm pretty sure we're going home for lunch today so I can get it then. 

Goals for this week:

- 1900 calories a day or less

- go to the gym 3 days

- take full-body measurements

- smoke as little as possible

- limit 3 alcoholic beverages per outing/get-together excepting New Years Eve (we'll be at home that night so I won't have to worry about that whole driving thing either)