Story Boarding

Today's Thea Thursday is Story Boarding.
I'm to list the first thing that needs to happen for me to achieve my Winning Outcome. And then the second, third etc until all steps equal a successful Winning Outcome.

So, to begin let's review my Winning Outcome:
I will eat healthy and stay within my Weight Watcher point guidelines. I will get my daily five of fruits/veggies in four or more days a week. I will drink 14 cups of water a day. I will lose 2.8 pounds (weigh 220) by Nov 3

Now for my Story Board:

1. Plan and prepare my meals in advance.


2. Meals are small reasonable portions of various things including fruits and/or vegetables.


3. Eat fruits and veggies for snacks.


4. Fill water bottle first thing in the morning at work Mon-Fri and at home Sat-Sun.


5. Go to bed at a decent time EVERY night.


6. Exercise three days a week, at least.

Those are my steps. I all to easily find myself eating microwavable meals for lunch at work. About 90% of the time this is because I didn't prepare myself something for lunch the previous night and didn't want to spend the time on it in the morning before going to work. The microwavable meals aren't horrible for me, but I don't think the have the same nutritional value that fresh foods do.

This week I've been having a pb&j sandwich on wheat with a spinach salad with various toppings for lunch. It's worked out quite nicely. Next week I think I'll create one big salad that I'll put into containers for work daily. Then hubby and I can also partake of the salad when we sit down for dinner.

The big change for me this week is I know what dinner will be before I get home. I cooked on Monday and we ate late since DH had a meeting at church and got home at 8. The rest of the week I prepared crockpot meals the night before and threw them together before I left for work and dinner was magically done when I got home. The other big change from the past couple months was that I was the one preparing dinner. I know DH liked it, not that he really said anything about it, but there was a comment a couple weeks ago that he'd like it if we handled dinner differently. Normally he was responsible for all dinnerness in the small window he had between getting home from work and getting out to his other commitments.

One other thing. It turns out that I started this lifestyle change PMSing. This definitely is a large contributing factor to my incredible orneriness this week. Work was the other factor, but it was made sooo much worse by the PMSing. The big thing is though that I didn't end up eating absolutely everything that crossed my mind and path. AND I haven't had any candy from the Administrative Assistant's desk for a week! She is quite well stocked with wonderful candies that make both chocolate and sugar people happy.

One last thing. Exercising. I have exercised a total of once this week. Yes, a whopping once. This is better than the zero I've been averaging, but I can and will do better.

Now, I'm off to spend some time with my husband who got home and was told to please leave me alone for ten minutes so I can finish my blog post. He was very nice about it and a little perplexed.