Oh, Mothers

My workout schedule has been going strong, which is excellent! I did Week 3, Day 1 of C25K on Saturday morning, and even lengthened a running interval a bit (ninety seconds to 2 minutes 15 seconds) and added another minute-long run interval using the first minute of the cool-down walk. It seemed silly to me to do a 3 minute walking interval, and then do a 5 minute cool-down walk, so I think I'll keep that up for the next two days of this week.

This was also the first week that I came in under what LoseIt! displays as my budget, which is pretty amazing. I purposefully set my deficit lower to account for the fact that I would likely go over by about 500 calories a week, so I'm impressed that I was able to stay under! I'm sure my hours of walking around Boston yesterday, including going through the aquarium (and watching the penguins for likely a good hour), helped a ton- I only put it in as "household walking" for three hours, even though it was more strenuous than that and for a good five to six hours.

I'm addicted to caffeine, apparently. That's no good... drinking a cup of coffee was the only way to make my killer headache go away after I got in yesterday. I thought I was dehydrated, so I drank a ton of water and took some ibuprophin and took a ten minute nap, but it was still throbbing strong a couple hours later, soothed only with my lovely iced concoction. If it was sugar-induced... well, my chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting and chocolate sprinkles and m'n'ms was well worth the punishment (I only ate the top part that had the frosting, though).

While my intake and output this past week was pretty fantastic for me (1700 exercise calories), my spending was sub par.  I bought a bunch of stuff that was on my list for back-to-school, eliminated other items off my list, and came under budget with all that. I registered my car, which cost a pretty penny. I treated my family to dinner, which wasn't as expensive as I was anticipating. And let's not talk about that ticket I got... :-\

The unexpected expense was my stop at Old Navy with my mom. She has this unique habit of being able to talk me into buying almost anything- she almost got me to purchase a pair of WHITE shorts! The style was adorable, but I would never buy white shorts; I am truly her daughter, and have an awesome knack for dropping stuff on myself, or sitting in stuff, or just mysteriously getting dirty, so white is just a very poor bottom color choice. Not the greatest for the top, either, come to think of it.  I was going to buy only one item, and use my 30% off coupon, but ended up with a cardigan, a tank top, a tee shirt and a pair of khaki bermudas, and kindly picked up a tee for my little brother. Not a total bank-breaking trip, since everything was on sale, but definitely more than anticipated.

I REALLY need to get my butt in gear with this whole "sticking to a budget" thing.  I'm thinking it might be smarter to start that once I've moved in to school- a new place with new spending habits, hopefully leaning towards a bit more frugality.  And I also won't have the dorm-furnishing, car-registering purchases that I am currently plagued with.