Diane

No matter what I tried yesterday, I couldn’t get my work out in.  I started it 5 or 6 times and was always interrupted with something that couldn’t be avoided.  I was able to focus on keeping my diet under control - not an easy thing when the thing that helps most for my migraines is a carb overload.

But today, the migraine is gone, I’m half done my water for the day and don’t forsee anything standing in the way of a double work out today.  And the weekend is here!  Yay!

Happy Friday everyone.

I did my exercising and still have plenty of calories for dinner.  I have a glass of water left to drink, but I’ve already planned on that.  I’m so glad that I actually like water.  The workout was fun.  My dd wanted to be picked up, dumped her toys right by my feet or wanted her play doh opened.  As soon as I finished and turned off the tv, she went into her playroom for about an hour! Now if they will both go to sleep, I might be able to get some more exercise in.  Can’t let that red team win!

Has anyone else compared the number of calories burned on this site to that of others?  The two others that I’ve used calculate twice the amount burned based on my weight. 

Does rolling out fondant for an hour constitute as an upper body work out?  My arms and shoulders are sooo sore!  Could just be that the stress of the past week and lack of sleep finally caught up with me.  I was quite surprised this morning when my weight was down a pound.  Now I just need to keep it going in that direction.  Don’t want to be the only one not posting a weight loss next Sunday in the Red vs. Blue Challenge.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Monday.

Okay, so the week started out okay.  I was eating well, started exercising, had a positive outlook on everything.  Then in the midst of potty training, getting the house reorganized and just trying to get a little ahead, hormonal depression struck, dd decided she wanted to go back into diapers and ds decided he no longer needs a nap.  Did manage to keep exercising even though some of the movements made muscles I obviously haven’t used in a very long time awaken and none to happily either.  They made me remember every sprained hip I’ve ever had.  Thank you very much, downhill skiing!

My diet has left a lot to be desired.  I’d do well until after the little ones were in bed, then all hell broke loose.  Not a pretty sight.  Thank God I have too much to do tonight to think about eating and hubby isn’t around to make anything to eat.  I wish I could just relax, but that isn’t going to happen tonight.

Well, I must go bake a cake for class tomorrow.  If it turns out well, I’m dropping it off a the police station.  If I don’t want anyone to see it, it will go in the trash.  While that’s baking, I get to pick up the playroom, den and kitchen.  We’re having a sitter and I don’t want the house a mess.  Hopefully the kids will stay in bed so I can get it all done and get some sleep myself. 

On a positive note, I am feeling a whole lot better about life in general and know that this week will be better.

The goal I set for myself this month is to exercise 20 of the 28 days.  So far I have done two.  My idealistic goal is to exercise every day for the rest of the month so it becomes a habit.   

Is anyone else doing Walk Away the Pounds?  I started it yesterday and it gives me more of a work out than my eliptical machine!  I was a little surprised.  I’m just glad it was easy, relatively speaking, to keep up with.  Wish I’d started it years ago when I bought the DVDs.  Oh, well.  Better late than never.

Hope every one is having a great day!

Hard to face that I’m being a bad example to my children and causing them to start down the path I’m trying to get off.  My dd loves to be outside, especially in the snow, but she didn’t even ask to go outside today.  In the past couple of months she has kept asking to go out and play and I have generally told her no because I didn’t want to go out.  The past week or so it has been because it’s been too cold, but to her the answer was still the same.  It broke my heart today when I realized that she was content to sit on the couch and watch Curious George instead of going out to play.  When I asked if she wanted to go out, she practically danced all over the house getting things together.  We played in the snow for about half an hour and then she played for another hour as I did my Walk Away the Pounds by the back door so I could see her.  Son was napping so I couldn’t be outside all the time.  Next time I’m at a store that has them, I’m picking up a sled so the little one can enjoy the snow as well.

Okay, so it’s only 7 inches or so, but it’s more than we’ve had here in a couple of years.  It is so beautiful outside.  Everything is pure white, with a few doggie prints in the snow.  My daughter is patiently waiting for little brother to take his nap so she and I can go out and play.  He doesn’t yet appreciate the snow and it’s too cold to not have him moving around while he’s out there.  He’d sit in his swing for hours if I let him. 

A fresh snow always makes me realize that everything can be fresh and new, even my life and my resolution to be healthy.  Yes, it will get marred over time and not always look so pretty, but it takes that fresh start and marring of the white serenity to reveal the spring grass and flowers that will come.  So it is with changing my life, it takes a fresh start and some bumps along the way to reveal the healthy, vibrant me that is stuggling to get out.  I will be victorious over my diet and exercise habits today because I have decided to be.

I was excited about today.  I have a new class starting for cake decorating and it was going to be my first chance to be away from the kids for a short period of time in ages.  Then my husband got called into work.   I managed to stop myself from eating a ton and will still be able to stay in the calorie range for the day.  I’ll just make sure I take my vitamin.  Now if I can just get my butt in gear to exercise today and the day won’t be totally disappointing.

In my last posting, I think something came across wrong.  I’m not doing anything to prove that I can exercise to my husband.  I’m proving to him that I will do it so that he doesn’t feel like I’m wasting our money yet again - something I have done in the past when it came to weightloss.  This weightloss project is completely for myself.  The exercising at home for a month is to prove to myself that I can do it.  It is sort of test for myself and a reassurance for him.  If I can’t even stick with exercising for a month when I don’t even have to leave the house, I have no business spending our money on a gym membership.