GFTW 19: Pimp My Blog!

Ya like the new look? As you can see, I did a bit of a bloggy makeover. No, I didn't win a contest or was on a reality show, I've just been wanting to pimp my blog now for a while, and I'm happy with the new current look. There's still a few things I need to fix/correct, but it'll come right?  And I've had a pretty great Mama's Day too. I got my morning coffee, my ~2hr bike ride, lunch with the family at a grubbin' hamburger joint, a TWO hour nap, a late afternoon family bike ride, and now Ironman Dude is serving dinner and in charge of bedtime, so I get to indulge in bloggyville! nice.

So let's get right to it. Here are My Goals for the Week:


Health/Personal Growth: Follow my sample week of daily intakes from my nutritionist. Yipee! I hope to hop on board for a ~6 week nutrition plan with her and I'm excited. I've already bought a few of the new items she's recommended, and so far I'm digging them.  Like the cherries I finally scored above. They're not available in the market at the moment, but on the way back from my bike ride we passed by a stand...and I imbibed. Here they are above. Oh, and just a few notes I found about cherries. They're a 10 top food for a flat belly (uh...okay) as reported in Oxygen Mag. The component they have is anthocyanins (say that 10 times fast) that helps promote losing abdominal fat. It's the same compound that give cherries their red color.


Athlete: Continue my This or That. 
I wrote about it before, where I concluded that for at least for the next 12 weeks, my training workouts trump any extra work or social opp's. And I've been tested a few times. Work has asked if I can come in last minute for an extra shift, there was a forgotten book club...I said no, because I'm putting a lot of time and $ frankly, into these next 3 months, and I need to commit my kid coverage time to the training as much as possible. So, continue to remember that this week.


Personal Growth: Embrace the  Sprint Triathlon I'm doing this weekend. 
 It was put on my training schedule only 3 weeks ago, and I've had a LOT of resistance to put it mildly. Mainly b/c it's just more time, money, and energy I wasn't willing to shell out. But I had this relaxing weekend, and we decided I'd go down and do it solo: sans hubby and kids. So this is the first race I will have EVER done by myself. I've always had a friend/hubby along, but not this time. It's just me, my gear, and the race from Sat til Sunday. It'll be a good growing experience for me, right? and I'll have your voices in my head Sun am at the swim start;-)


Mom: In the spirit of my Jaime Oliver Food Revolution Crusade, put one new food item on my kid's food plate each day. 

That's it for me. Now how about YOU? What do you have goin' on for you and what goals have you set for yourself this week? Talk to me, talk to me baby!