Target Practice Tuesday- Guilt Begone!

This morning, as I was lamenting the 2 jerks that almost side swiped me in traffic, the rude guy in the forerunner that wouldn't let me in his lane and help a sister out, and fuming how AGAIN I was going to be late for work, I came across this article informing me of my failures.

Well great. As if I wasn't already frustrated enough with not being able to get out the door on time, which was rewarded with the aforementioned calamity of affairs, let's see what else I've managed to screw up before my second cup of coffee.

Turns out, the biggest error was what I was doing in that moment: thinking about how rough of a day its going to be with a start out like this one. So I took their advice to learn how to push the reset button for myself and thought about things I was looking forward to today. And the first thing I thought of scared the patootie out of me- "I get to lift weights tonight at the gym." 

Ummm what?

So then, going into spastic overachiever mode, I decided that I would do a Target Practice Tuesday today. But as soon as I opened Blogger and realized how long it had been since my last post, I almost started this post with a similar whiny, apologetic, introduction. But instead, I am practicing hitting my reset button- guilt begone!

So without further ado, here is my target practice for November 18:

Health: Slim down for Savannah is still going strong! We even bought our hotel! However,a  dear friend got married the second weekend of November and that resulted in more of a set back than I had hoped. About a solid 10 days later, I'm back to where I was the Monday before that wedding weekend. Eesh. Sad that it takes that long when I don't feel like I made *horrible* decisions that weekend. Anywho, my goal this week is keep calorie counting, and focus on eating more lean protein!

Fitness: Yesterday, after a lot of studying of my training schedule that did not materialize for the 5K Turkey Trot I'm doing on Thanksgiving, I decided its out of the cards for me to get to a place where I can run the distance without walking. I'm trying not to let that be a defeat (although I am frustrated that this is my second 5K I've signed up for now where I haven't committed to running enough to get there). I'm loving my weight training and don't want to curb that to incorporate more running, so I will be doing the Galloway method for the race. My focus is to do my prep runs on the days I've scheduled them: Mon, Wed, Sat, Mon. Also will be pushing for 4-5 strength workouts over the week.

Life: Try not to stress out/over plan the upcoming week so much that I feel so much nervous energy as I do right now. Between Thanksgiving planning, cooking, decorating, Christmas list shopping, etc, I can fill my plate with entirely too much (although usually fun things to do) and forget to plan time to NOT do. Once I make my menu and cooking schedule, I WILL LEAVE IT ALONE. IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE REDONE. Here's to hoping this Type A doesn't fly for the coo coo's nest before next week's check in.

Hope your plans are coming together! Would love to hear your goals for the week as well! :-)