Progress Week 3

Target Behavior: (Shoot me Now!)

Wednesday: School work the WHOLE DAY! Human trafficking conference paper and speech, field experiment. I was not able to exercise at all.
Thursday: School work again this time reading 150 pages of George Orwell for English class and NOT HAVING A TEST! grrr....hahaha! Again, I was not able to exercise.
Friday: Finishing touches on field experiment and speech. Spent some time with my boyfriend and not being able to exercise again!
Saturday: Attended Human Trafficking conference which was relieving and fun. Worked in the Mt. Sac Theater all night (missed the Manny Pacquiao Boxing match) I count this as half- exercise, but I will explain in detail why later.
Sunday: Worked 8 full hours without prior notice. ( I was greatful but a little stressed out haha). I count this as full exercise.
Monday: I stretched for a few mins. (15 mins - Thanks Christin) I was ready to go running with my boyfriend and his sister but his sister got sick and so we decided not to run anymore. ( I watched a recording of the Pacquiao fight instead) I also count this as half-exercise.
Tuesday: I have been studying the whole day for the Psych exam tomorrow and I stretched for 10 mins. I consider this as Half-Exercise.

Comments:
Taking everything into consideration I exercised for 2 and a half days this week. As anyone can plainly see, I was really busy this week. I do not regret relaxing instead of exercising because I was physically and mentally exhausted the whole week, I needed the breaks really. I punished myself this week by replacing juice with water and lattes with brewed coffee or tea. I also did some chores that I did NOT like doing (dusting the gross window blinds.. eeew...) I did not, however, punish myself severely because I do not think I deserved it since I was really drained this week. But at least I did punish myself somehow. I did not really reinforce myself this much because the exercise that I did was not how I planned it to be executed. To be fair, no reinforcement was given and, to recap, only slight punishment was given.

Effects of Punishment: The punishment was just right. It annoyed me and made me wish I could exercise "properly" because I really wanted to. I will try to do so the following week but I will not be too hard on myself if I don't.

Program Changes:
Ok so you guys may all be wondering I classified stretching and working half day as "half-exercise" and working all day as "full-exercise". Well, I took may of your comments into consideration and you guys are right! As Cristin said, school is more important and I do not want to stress myself out even more by putting myself down whenever I can't continuously exercise especially now that school is about to end and that there are so many things that need to be done. Working in my job is exercising indeed! I sweep, mop, stand on my feet the whole day and constantly move about! Whether or not I like it, it is exercising. Stretching is a great form of exercise because it allows you to move more freely whenever you do it and it relieves your muscles from cramps and pains.

Your comments have been making me feel better. Now I know that I am not as lazy as I think I am. I know that regular continuous exercise is important but I also know that doing my daily activities is also considered as exercise if you look at it from another perspective. Thanks guys!