Mamavation Monday - 6/6/2011

I'm writing this post from 38,000 feet in the air. It's not often I have 2 and a half hours of uninterrupted peacefulness. No kids to worry about, no chores to do, no errands to run. I don't even have wi-fi on the flight so I can't waste my time playing games, watching nonsensical YouTube videos, or constantly checking and updating my Facebook and Twitter. I didn't even bring a book with me, so all I can do is write write write. And this is a wonderful thing because I have been steadily falling behind in my blogging and writing.

I mention during campaign 8 that I struggle with time management. I tried to work on it, but haven't really made any real progress. I still end up "messing up" from time to time. I'll miss a workout here or there because some days I'll put it off until the end of the day, and then the next thing I know it's 11:30 and I still haven't worked out. I'll occasionally have to get fast food or take out for a meal because I didn't make the time to cook a meal, or thaw something out for dinner. Planning. I suck at it.

Side note: I know there are people who come into your house and organize your stuff, but does anyone help with organizing time? Or maybe someone can just organize my brain. It's pretty messy in there. I won't lie, I need a house organizer too.

I have been slacking on a few things. Namely my water intake, my food tracking and my effort in my activity. Three things that have basically been my building blocks for the last 5 months. There's no room for slacking. Definitely no room in my pants because I gave away all my size 16's (and up) in order to force myself to never gain again. (Unless of course I'm gaining another baby, because then I'm okay with it.)

I have also been slacking on keeping in touch. I'm pretty good at disappearing when I want to, and when I do that, it really doesn't help anyone. I want to be a good mentor to the next round of Mamavation Moms, and it doesn't start when the moms are announced. It starts now. I want to support the applicants through the physically-tough hazing, the emotionally-tough voting process, the anxiousness of waiting, and everything in between. I've been through it twice. Three times if you count the campaign I applied to but didn't make it to finalist.


So my goals for this week: (Yep, I'm back to baby steps.)
-Track my eating on MyFitnessPal every day.
-Drink at least 80oz of water, 100oz if possible.
-Exercise at least 3 times a week. Not including the 10K training I started, which has me running every other day.
-Be more open and available on Twitter, Facebook, email, etc.
-Keep myself accountable by tweeting my goals and posting when I acheive them.
-Write a to-do list every day to try and help me better manage my time.

To all of the Mamavation applicants, PLEASE do not hesitate to email me, tweet me, DM me, add/message me on Facebook, send me a telegram, WHATEVER. I am here for you and this is an open invitation, so use it! If you have questions about the campaign process, exercises, foods, whatever, I can help you find an answer. If you want to get a hold of me fast, text me. I will almost always answer you immediately. If you need my number, DM me. I have unlimited text, so don't worry about running up a huge phone bill.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week. I am slowly recovering from the amazing Austin trip. For those of you that couldn't make it, I'm as bummed as you guys are! And pictures are coming soon!

I forgot to take a picture of the scale, but I am up 4 pounds from my final mamavation weigh in. I'm not really going to sweat it, but I am certainly going to sweat it off. :)