Diane

Nothing went as I had planned today, starting with being up most of last night.  I wanted to take the dog and the kids for a walk, but ended up having to give the kitchen a good cleaning.  Think by now I’d realize how much of a mess an 18 month old can make.  Guess mopping is good exercise.  I had also planned to use my elliptical machine after the kids went to bed since my husband was home.  At 6 the phone rang and he had to go into work and won’t be home until sometime tomorrow! 

Since I can’t hear the kids when I’m using the machine, that was out.  I finally got my daughter to bed and went downstairs, planning to do nothing and wondering what there was to eat.  I did snack a little bit, but only went over by 80 calories, none of it fat.  I finally got off my butt and did some mini trampoline/walking for an hour, 7700 steps.  At least my hubby will be home during the day tomorrow since he’s working all night.  I really hope it rains then I know he won’t have to work since they can’t do testing when the humidity is high.

Now that I’ve written a book, I bid all a restful night and a happy morrow.

I’d been a little upset with myself because the scales have barely moved this month.  This morning I did my measurements and I’ve lost 7.5 inches this month and lost 4% body fat.  Guess all this exercise is paying off.

Grocery shopping with children should be banned!  If I can possibly help it, I am never taking my kids shopping alone again!  The older one kept trying to push the younger one out of the seat and the younger one was more than happy to be out of it.  They finally settled down - as I got to the check out line.  I didn’t do too badly with what I bought, but I did have to put a few impulse things back before I checked out.  It’s a long, slow process, but I’m getting the hang of non-emotional shopping.  Menu planning helps tremendously along with the fact that there are so many other things I’d like to spend my money on besides food I don’t need.

But it is now almost 1 day closer to the weekend so that’s something to smile about.  Off to work out.

You all worked really hard and I only hope that I can begin to be such worthy compitition.

I actually did my workout today.  The other day I pulled a muscle or something in my leg and could barely walk yesterday.  I still don’t know what is going on with it because it still hurts, but only when I walk.  Since I’d been doing in home walking and couldn’t do that, I decided to use my elliptical machine.  When I started this last month, I could barely do 10 minutes on the thing and had to practically crawl up the stairs.  Today I did 30 minutes at a 3mph pace and still had enough energy to go up the stairs, do the dishes and then another flight of stairs to get my little one from his nap, all before getting off my feet at all.  Much as I hate the elliptical machine, I’m so glad I’ve got it right now because it is so low impact.  It didn’t hurt my leg at all.

Just had to share.  I hope everyone has a wonderful, healthy weekend.

I did the first 1 hour workout that I’ve done in forever today.  I was so sick of the constant chatter on the Walk Away the Pounds DVDs that I just took my mp3 player and did the workout at my own pace - over 7500 steps in one hour.  Yesterday following her video it was about 5000 in the same amount of time.  Guess this exercise thing is becoming a habit because I didn’t really think about not doing it when my son went down for his nap even though I’d decided this morning I wasn’t going to.  Darn healthy habits!

Last week it snowed and now it is raining.  My daughter keeps turning off all the lights in the house and it takes me a bit to realize it so my energy gets drained.  I need a lot of light to keep going.  Did manage to get my work out in and have done pretty well with the whole food thing.  At what point is this thing supposed to become a habit?

Yesterday my husband told me that when he goes to California for testing next month that he needs to wear orange jumpsuits so that it’s easier to find the bodies if something goes wrong with the test flights!  Okay, I didn’t marry a pilot and didn’t expect to have to deal with this.  Guess it’s better than the job where they would call in the middle of the night and I never knew when he’d be back if he had to leave.  That one was fun.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

Today is going to be a struggle.  My son is teething and kept me up most of the night so I’m tired to start with.  I know it’s going to be a long week because of my husband’s schedule.  Those two things alone are enough to make me want to just go to sleep.  Guess it’s a good thing I have kids because if I didn’t, I probably would sleep today, but then, I wouldn’t have been up last night either. 

The one thing I do know is that even though I REALLY, REALLY don’t want to, I will eat right and will exercise today.  I may not have posted the greatest weightloss numbers yesterday, but I could fit into a smaller size jeans that I hadn’t worn since before my last pregnancy. 

Sorry Reds, but I’m not going to help you win this week!

Way to go Red!  You are all an inspiration and give me something to aspire to.  

I have managed to exercise almost every day this month so far.  Too bad it doesn’t seem to be making much of a difference.  I’m actually eating broccoli, too.  My husband calls me the pickyist vegetarian he knows and broccoli is right below cauliflower on my list of disliked veggies.  But I must set that good example for the kids so I eat broccoli.

I have found a great program that tells me the number of beats per minute of any mp3’s I have so that is good.  I like Walk Away the Pounds, but the constant dialog can get a little annoying.  Now I can make up my own playlist with the tempo I need for 4-5 mph. 

Go Blue!