Confessions Of A Fat Chick: Part I

Well, this post is way over due! When I signed up for the Trimming the Fat Challenge it was understood that I would periodically post regarding my progress. So, here I am posting about my progress. I call this 'Confessions Of A Fat Chick'.

Confessions - bad:
Although I've pretty much kept to the grocery budget I have to admit that I bought a few extra things. Although at the time I rationalized the purchase of these items I see now that I was in error and simply weak, Weak, WEAK!

• Popsicles - Abygail was sick and running a fever, but really we just like popsicles!
• Cereal - Jason doesn't like the cereal that we get so I bought some special for him which is the more expensive kind. This was on my Valentine shopping day where I was buying the flour needed to make the valentine pizza we had. So I guess you could say it was a valentine present, but it wasn't.
  
• Even if the cereal was a valentine present (which it wasn't) than I went over budget for the holiday and let's face it, I went over budget by $5 anyway!

Confessions - good

• Electronic Stimulation - I've been much better about only getting on the computer twice a day, morning and night. This has freed me up for other diversions such as playing, reading and shoveling the snow. I've shoveled snow 3 days this week and it was great, I'm not saying I want to do it all the time (you can still have that job Jason!) but it was nice to get outside, do some manual labor and not use the same time to stare at an electronic screen. Additionally our TV 'consumption' has gone down this week. We still have a lot to do in this area (again, mostly me) but we are working on it so that's good.
• Date - our date cost more than we had budgeted but...again we haven't been on a date in QUIT SOME TIME so this one I'm ok with. I'm calling this a good thing over all considering that we 1)went on a date and 2) we were out of the house there by not partaking in the nightly electronic stimulation of news, blogs, and comedic relief that invades our evenings.
• Travel - Jason has been faithful at taking the bus and overall we are down on our travel of late. This week I didn't go to play group because I forgot and I didn't go to the library because I didn't need to, I just rechecked my books online.
  

So to sum it up: There is still more fat to trim but I feel a little less fat :o)