Unfortunately both my "lifestyle" change and my money management plan went right out the window. Nothing has seemed to go my way.
It started off with me contracting the stomach flu. And let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. I hate the flu normally but the stomach flu is worse. I actually lost 5 pounds from it (which I admit is not the best way to loose weight) but I put it back on when I managed to start eating normal food again. Then the stomach flu turned into a regular cold.. again sick. And coupled with problems at home with the BF, which I wont go into right now, resulted in major depression. I turned into a huge emotional eater which didn't help my eating plan.. I just wanted to eat crap food and crap food was what I eat. So I didn't eat as well as I hoped and didn't exercise much if at all.. BUT I was lucky enough to only gain 2 pounds from the difference of last month. So can't be to worried about that.. However I am still having some trouble with my tummy of late. Not sure if its the after effects of the flu or my issues with no gall bladder. So keeping an eye on that and speaking to my doctor next week about it. Just in case... you know?
Budget wise.. . Between friend's kids birthdays, the tired blowing on us, a emergency dentist trip for the BF and pre-paying for some stuff for Australia the budget was totally blown out of the water.. doh!!! So my budget is way off and I don't think I did any great dent in my debt. Actually I think I might actually owe more then I did when I first started this blog. I did however managed to save almost $1000 for the Aussie trip.. so didn't do to bad. And some of the money I spent on my credit card were things I need for the trip pre-paid such as car rental and the BF car racing day course he is doing so its not all for bad reasons.
So having said all that about I really don't feel so bad about it. Everyone is allowed to have bad times right... So my plan is not to worry so much about it. After all stress causes wrinkles (well according to my mother teehee) and focus more on my upcoming trip.. Then after the trip I will get back on the plan to loose weight and pay off debts. No point getting stressed out over stuff that for the most part so under no control of mine.
I plan on seeing a dietician/nutritionist when I get back from the trip just to give me a helping hand when it comes to foods and my non-existence gall bladder and digestion issues associated with it. And I am postponing my prevention walking plan for now and start up again after my trip.
So here is a re-cap of my goals from last month and how I did.. - loose 10 pounds - Fail. Started the month off well but then all the crap above hit and it bombed.
- stick to budget - Fail - same reasons as above
- save $1000.00 in the travel fund for Oz/China - Almost complete. Managed to save little under 900 for the trip. So not quite a grand but pretty close. So I do consider this goal a success.
- get my visa for China - DONE
- Re-do my daily schedule which will include goals from my personal goal list and house goal list - Done. I did up a daily schedule BUT however I have yet to implement it.
- Clean storage locker - DONE. We got rid of a lot of garbage and junk from the storage locker. We now have room to add more stuff into storage instead of sitting in the apartment.
- work out at least 3 times a week - Fail. Again started well but the same reasons hit as the first 2 goals.
So my goals for this month are plan and simple. So plan and simple in fact there is only one of them
- have fun on my trip to Australia/China.
No need for other goals at this moment in time. I am one week away (8 more sleeps to go) and all my focus is on my trip and having fun. Not worrying about money or diet (although I do admit I wont go overboard) and start the plans again when I get back. Its really the only things I can do at the moment.
It might be all the cold/flu drugs talking or perhaps the excitement of my trip but I really feel ok with it. No point banging myself up about it when I am so close to the plane trip. Might even take some material on weight loss and money management on the plane with me do read over and start preparing.. after all I a spending 19 hours total on a plane.. might as well have something to do.
So in the mean time I am going to update my stats and continue to write about weight loss, money management and life.