4 green stars, booyakasha!
Extra thirty minutes and I have …. *drum roll please* …. 4 green stars!!!! Oh yeah 
I also thought during my exercise. I want new criteria. Keep the water - water’s important, it feed your brain and makes you able to exercise better! I also want to be sensible with food. So that’s still the same. But I want trade-offs. Sure, I can have that chocolate, but only if I do an hour of exercise. Don’t want to do the exercise? No chocolate. Simple! Party to go to? That’s ok, but you need to be good that whole week - plan ahead - and while you’re there, enjoy yourself! That’s what parties are for after all :) But you need to go right on track after that, and do an extra hour of exercise to work off any drinking/party food and what not 
And you want real motivation? Here it is. Do it - or you’ll become your mother. Simple. Perhaps not 100% logical or true, but motivation nonetheless.
thanks a bunch for your comment on my blog! DH did the diet/exercise rigorously while I was pregnant 3 yrs ago. He lost about 45 lbs. Then in the last year he put about 20 back on, so he’s trying to lose that portion again. What he does, is eat very little during the work day and eats right all week, goes to the gym for about an hour on a work day, but then the weekend comes and he doesn’t do any of that. The good thing about him being on board is the fewer amount of take out foods, Starbucks and stuff that can be harder for me to resist. He’s extremely supportive so that’s not an issue. I think it’s mostly me watching him, when I should just worry about myself right?
Have a great weekend. Just think, only 10 stars from the red one! and 8 days to go.
Atta girl!
Seems like you’ve found a system that works for you. Stick with it and you’ll see the results you want to see.
Hang on! There are red stars too?!
Congrats on the 4 green ones! I really like the trade-off idea too.
Oh, & I’m glad you think my comment helped. It’s so much easier to tell someone, “oh, just forget it,” than it is to follow that advice yourself, don’t cha know. I sometimes think I spend half the day cringing over things I said the day before.
Thanks for your comments on my blog. I really appreciate the support…your subtitle says it all…difficult roads. & thanks too for putting me on your blogroll!