Sunday Stats – Ki – Week 5 – November Fitness Challenge

November Challenge – 2018 – Ki

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I did well with tracking stuff again this week and, for the most part, I did well with meeting my goals.  I kept my B at least.

But I slipped on household chores and diet this week which brought my grade down to a low B.  Don’t get me wrong, that’s still better than passing.  But I did want an A.  I could’ve done better.

I did have an injury I was trying to heal up this week so I’m not going to be too terribly hard on myself for not meeting my goals.

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My Goals

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Self Care

My self care goals were pretty simple: get up and weigh myself, brush my teeth, take my meds, eat enough, easy on the salt intake, log consumption, and brush my teeth again before bed.

I didn’t do so well on my diet this week.  I knew November and December would be hard months for the diet as it is the holidays where we gorge on carbs and sweets.  I need to put a plan in place for December so I don’t overdo it too much.  I’ve not made much progress this month on weight loss.

I could’ve earned a point each for brushing my teeth all 7 days twice which makes 14 points available for that goal for the week. And then there was a point available, per day, for consuming 1,000 or more calories, staying under 2,300 mg of sodium, taking my meds, weighing myself, and logging my consumption. So for those 5 goals times 7 days, we get 35 points available to add to the 14 for brushing my teeth and the 2 for healthcare stuff.

For the entire 7 days of this week, I had a grand total of 50 possible points for the Self Care goal. I earned 40 points for this week. That’s an 80%, still a B! Yay me! So let’s break it down and take a look at what I accomplished.

Sunday

I weighed 246.9 pounds, the same place I started last week. I brushed my teeth and took my meds after breakfast. I ate just over 1,000 calories and stayed under 2,300 mg of sodium. My parents bought a house and they’re closing this week so they wanted to take me over to see the new house and offered to buy us lunch at Coney Island, so we happily agreed. We love Coney Island. I knew I was eating out today and didn’t know how that would impact my numbers so I skipped breakfast so that I could make sure lunch didn’t kill me. As it turns out, I should’ve eaten breakfast anyway because I ended up needing a snack to get over the 1,000 calories. But I did it, that’s what’s important. I logged my consumption for the day which put me at 6 points for this category.

Monday

I weighed 245.5, thankful for yesterday’s good day. I brushed my teeth and took my meds after breakfast. I consumed more than 1,000 calories and stayed under 2,300mg of Sodium. I logged my consumption for the day and earned 6 points.

Tuesday

I weighed 243.8 at home but 242.7 at the VA, yay! I brushed my teeth and took my meds after breakfast. I saw the doctor today and she refilled my prescription for pain meds. My blood pressure was excellent so she’s not refilling the prescription for blood pressure meds. As I posted earlier, my glucose was high which put me in Pre-Diabetes range so she recommended reducing my carbs and sugars. I asked about the Keto Diet and she said I could try that, she had no objections. She just warned to make sure I’m consuming the good Fats, not the bad fats and referred me to the Nutritionist to make sure I know the difference. My B-12 still has to be managed through meds and I’m anemic now as well…which may be because of the B-12.

Wednesday

I weighed 245.5, thankful for yesterday’s good day. I brushed my teeth and took my meds after breakfast. I consumed more than 1,000 calories and stayed under 2,300mg of Sodium. I logged my consumption for the day and earned 6 points.

Thursday

I weighed 246.2. I brushed my teeth and took my meds after breakfast. I consumed more than 1,000 calories but didn’t stay under 2,300mg of Sodium because we went to Steak n Shake for dinner. I only had a sandwich but it was high in sodium. I logged my consumption for the day and earned 5 points.

Friday

I weighed 245.1. I brushed my teeth and took my meds after breakfast. I consumed more than 1,000 calories and once again didn’t stay under 2,300mg of Sodium because I ordered pizza. I logged my consumption for the day and earned 5 points.

Saturday

I weighed 245.1. I brushed my teeth and took my meds after breakfast. I consumed more than 1,000 calories but didn’t stay under 2,300mg of Sodium. I logged my consumption for the day and earned 5 points.

 

Home

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I didn’t do well on chores this week.  I injured my foot the night before Thanksgiving when I tiptoed up to put some dishes away on the top shelf.  Something popped in the back of my heel.  It wasn’t the Achilles tendon.  The doctor said just rest it and where supportive shoes.  It’s been in pain every day since and my pain meds haven’t come in yet.  So other than my 30 minutes of activity, I didn’t do much for chores this week.  I’m not ashamed about it neither.

So, for household chores, my goal is to do the dishes twice per week which means I could earn two points for that. I have 8 other chores with the goal of accomplishing them once per week so that’s another 8 points available which means I could’ve earned up to 10 points in this category for this week.

I earned a whopping 6 points for this category this week. That’s a 60%, no good! Don’t really care.  So let’s break it down and take a look at what I accomplished.

Sunday

I washed the dishes.

Monday

I washed more dishes. I did the laundry.

Tuesday

I cleaned the kitchen and cleaned the office.

Wednesday

I took the recycling out.

Thursday

I did not do chores.

Friday

I did not do chores.

Saturday

I did not do chores.

 

 

Family

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For my Family goals, I had two goals to happen twice each during the month. That was family outings and family visits. So, if I did both during this week, I could’ve earned 4 points there.

I had two goals that I wanted to accomplish once per week. That was train a new command with my dog and give him a bath. So that would be two points possible here.

I had one goal, to grade papers, 5 times per week which would be 5 possible points, but my son did not do all five days of school this week, he only did four.  So there were only four points possible here. Finally, I had a goal to converse with my son daily. So that would be 7 possible points, one for each day of the week.

For this category, I had a grand total of 17 possible points for the Family category. I earned 14 for this week. That’s an 82%. I made a B! So let’s break it down and take a look at what I accomplished.

Sunday

My son and I had a family outing and visit with my parents as they offered to take us to see their new house and then buy us lunch. We had several conversations during the time and enjoyed a very nice day out together. I trained my dog on the Calm command.  He runs along the fence line and barks insanely when 1 of two things happen, either the cat is out or my son’s dog has climbed over the fence again.  I taught him that when I say calm and hold up a closed fist, he is to stop barking, run to me, and lay down.  Four points here.

Monday

My son and I talked about school and how he has gotten behind because he started slacking off before the Thanksgiving break. We talked about how much needed to do to catch up and how he was to accomplish that. We also talked about carbs and sugars and how they are the culprits of the prediabetes and how we’re going to address that. I graded papers. Two points here.

Tuesday

My son and I talked about interviewing for jobs. He’s turning 15 in January and will be looking to get a job within the year as he wants to start saving up for a car. My mom recently moved back to Florida and used to be a Human Resources Director. She has offered to help prepare him for job interviews. He and I talked about building up confidence and being prepared for questions so that he isn’t feeling as awkward as he usually feels around other people he’s not related to. I graded papers. Two points here.

Wednesday

We talked about my parent’s closing on their new house. They needed to come by after closing and pick up some of their stuff that is being stored at my house while they get theirs squared away. We talked about how we would handle the dog situation as my dog hasn’t warmed up to their dog yet. And we talked about school work. Earned 1 point here.

Thursday

My son and I talked about a lot. We had to go pick up some chicken wire for the fence to try and stop his dog from climbing over the fence. We ended up making a wrong turn and made our trip about an hour longer. We were also dropping off a big screen TV at Best Buy to be recycled. We talked about how the recycling works and why it’s against the law to leave it on the curb with the trash. We talked about how we ended up making the wrong turn and why it happened. We talked about dog toys that weren’t easily destroyed. The conversation plus the outing earned me 2 points here!

Friday

My son and I talked about age requirements for getting a learner’s permit to learn how to drive and for getting a job. We found that he can do both at 15. But also, Publix will hire 14 year olds. So my son is interested in applying for a job at Publix so he can start working and saving money for a car. Earned 1 point.

Saturday

My son and I talked about job interviews, job benefits, stock trading, budgeting money, and confidence as we prepared him for the job application process. He was super nervous as he feels awkward talking to people. But he did well getting his application submitted an introducing himself to the manager. Now we just wait until a position becomes available. We took another outing so I earned 2 points here as well!

 

Social

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Interestingly, I may be a little more social than I thought. Or at least I am this month.

I had only set two goals on this one, both to be accomplished once during the entire month.

I don’t really go out with friends like a lot of people do. Beck and I get together maybe once a year and do something. Other than that, I pretty much keep to myself. I don’t like traffic, I don’t like drama, and my patience for stupidity is very low so I keep myself pretty much in isolation so my stress levels stay low.

Beck and I had already gotten together so that point wasn’t available this week but I still had some adult time with my neighbors which earned me an extra 3 credit points since this goal was already met.

Sunday

Sunday we had a family outing! My parents wanted us to come see their new house so they picked us up and took us out there and then took us to lunch at Coney Island. It was a nice day out with them and earned a point for adult time!

Friday

Hung out with my neighbor for a bit after work. The kids that live in the house behind our two yards are constantly throwing trash into our yards. Well they’ve been trying to get an inflated basketball that they threw into my yard for days now and they saw me outside talking to my neighbor so we had a little confrontation. My neighbors and I just hung out talking about them and kids and jobs and such for awhile. Good social time.

Saturday

Stood outside talking to my neighbor for about an hour again. They were curious about my son’s job application and asked how it went. We talked about that and the troublesome neighbors behind us.

 

Hobbies

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I only had four goals in this category. With it being hobbies, it’s something that we do when we have time and we feel like it. The universe has to be just right in order for these hobby things to actually happen.

Each of those goals was to be earned at least one time during the month because…yeah…stars have to align and stuff.

So there were only four points possible in this category for this week and that’s only if I managed to complete all four goals in just one week.

I did not do anything hobby related this week.

 

Exercise

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The only goal I set for this category was to achieve 30 active minutes per day as a consequence of losing the October Killer Cardio Challenge.

I did miss one day of being active last week, but not this week. I talked it over with Beck and I made up the one missed day on December 1st. While it isn’t a consecutive 30 days of active minutes, I still achieved the desired 210 active minutes for the week, I just missed one day of the 30 minutes and did that much more on other days of the same week. So as far as redeeming myself from October’s challenge, I am fully redeemed!

For this category, I had a grand total of 7 possible points for the Exercise category. I earned 7 for this week. That’s an 100%, totally an A!

Sunday

I completed the Easy Breezy routine on my FitRadio App with Coach Maria.

Monday

I completed the Fight For It routine with Coach Dee on my FitRadio App.

Tuesday

I completed the Simply Sweat with Coach Maria routine on my FitRadio App achieving 30 active minutes for the day.

Wednesday

I power walked for 30 minutes while watching the news and listening to my favorite station on FitRadio.

Thursday

I power walked for 30 minutes while watching the news and listening to my favorite station on FitRadio.

Friday

I power walked for 30 minutes while watching the news and listening to my favorite station on FitRadio.

Saturday

This one was kinda funny. I drove my son up to Publix to submit a job application which takes about 40 minutes to get through the application and questionnaire on their job application system. So while he was working on that, I spent 30 minutes power walking laps through the grocery store…up and down each aisle. I got a few funny looks but I think it was fairly obvious what I was doing. I even helped a lady find the milk!

 

 

Work

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This category is a big one and contains the most goals. I have a lot that I want to do in this category each week. One of the goals was a once during the month goal which I completed in the first week. That was the gamification presentation. So that point is not available to be earned anymore this month.

I had two goals that I wanted to complete 5 times per week, access requests and work inbox. But this was a short holiday week so there were only 3 days that I worked so six points available instead of ten.

One goal, TMDC Email was set to accomplish 4 times per week which would have been 4 points possible. FS Email made 3 points possible by accomplishing it 3 times per week and FS Post would have given 2 points if accomplished twice per week.

Personal email was to be accomplished daily which would have made 7 points possible for this goal. All of the other 7 goals were to be accomplished once per week, making 7 more points possible.

So for this category, I had a grand total of 29 possible points for the Work category.

I earned 21 for this week. That’s a 72%, back up to a C.  At least I passed!

So let’s break it down and take a look at what I accomplished.

Sunday

I cleared out my personal email and posted my Sunday Stats post.

Monday

First thing in the morning, I cleared out my personal email and my work inbox. I worked the access requests and compiled and sent the F Report for the week. I posted my Monday Motivation post here on ForgetSkinny.

Tuesday

First thing in the morning, I cleared out my personal email and my work inbox. I worked the access requests and compiled and sent the PR Report for the week.

Wednesday

First thing in the morning, I cleared out my personal email and my work inbox. I worked the access requests and compiled and sent the U Report for the week.

Thursday

First thing in the morning, I cleared out my personal email and my work inbox.

Friday

First thing in the morning, I cleared out my personal email and my work inbox.

Saturday

First thing in the morning, I cleared out my personal email. I also wrote and published the next Challenge post on Forget Skinny for the month of December.

 

So what’s my overall grade for the week? Well, there were 113 points possible this week. I earned only 91 points for the week. That is 80% which is a B. I am totally happy with my score this week. I wanted to earn an A at least one week during the challenge but that didn’t happen.  Oh well.

Well…let’s see what my overall score for the challenge was.  There were 571 points possible for me for the month.  I earned 462 points total.  That is an 80%, I earned a B!  YAY!  I’m so happy with myself because I didn’t want to just earn the C and go.  I wanted to do my best and I came pretty close.  It’s a good grade, I’m happy.  Now onto the next challenge.

Remember, forget skinny…train to be a fit badass!

~Ki

a.k.a. Roadrunner

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