Exercise Challenge

I have just a second while the kids have gone out for a bike ride.....am I the biggest freak ever, or am I not the only one whose heart jumps up into their throat when the kids are driving/riding away without me?  They are all so precious.

I've been getting in 30 minutes each day and have been working hard at cutting out sugar in between all the house issues we've been having!  Seems our hot water pipe has busted.  We've got an insurance guy coming to take a peek at our buckling kitchen floor and water soaked cabinets. 

Seems there's always something happening around here and Darin and I keep wondering when things will be normal???  These are the times when it's hard to stay consistent with exercise and eating right.

Anyway, I gotta go!  I need to go call my insurance company cause I scraped someone's car in the CVS parking lot yesterday.  ;-)  I would cry, but it's almost too funny.  What could happen next???

Exercise Challenge

So I'm still here, doing my thing. I've been exercising as much as I can, but I just can't seem to find an hour each day.  I'm lucky to get in 30 minutes.  But I'm not going to stop.  I figure it's better than nothing, and maybe if I stay with even this 30 minutes each day, over time it will add up to something meaningful???  Who knows.  But I am sticking with it.  I always feel better after getting myself moving, and Darin exercises with me a lot, and I really enjoy that.  When we were in college, and dating, he used to go to an aerobics class with me two or three times each week.  Found out after we were married that he hated that class......but I guess that means he REALLY loved/loves ME!  sigh.  ;-)

Let me know how your week went!  De'Etta has been traipsing the countryside in Colorado.  What a great trip she's been having with her whole crew together again.

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A Habit

I'm a huge reader and also love listening to sermons on my iPod.  Because I read and listen to so much, I sometimes....well, pretty much most of the time, forget where I've heard/read a good piece of info.  The latest thing that is running through my head is, "If you have to brag about something you've done, then you obviously don't do it enough."  Ouch!  ;-)  I THINK I read this in Stepping Heavenward.

So I've really started listening to myself and have found that like a kitty with a dead mole, I bring my finished chores to my husband for him to praise me.  And it's always the ones that I'm constantly behind on.  Like laundry.  Every time I get two or three loads done in one day, I let my husband know.  And like a good husband, he says, "Woohoo!" 

So I'm trying to break this habit of pointing out the times that I do something that I should have been doing all along.  Really, bragging about my finished projects at all.  It's my goal to do my job and let that be the end.  It's hard cause I like to get a pat on the back, but then I remember Solomon's wise words,

"When pride comes, then comes shame;
      But with the humble is wisdom." Proverbs 11:2

Return of the Fungi

A new gift awaited me when I came downstairs this morning. 

Now I have TWO gigantic mushrooms!  Are they totally gross, or what?  ;-)  Sally, I really, really hope and pray that girl is out there for my boy!  You give me hope!

On another note, my mushroom boy has discovered Google Earth.  It is so neat!  If you don't have it on your computer, it's a free download.  We traveled all over the world this afternoon.  I grew up in Cheektowaga, NY, so we put in my old address and flew there!  Not only did we see the roof of my old abode, but we were able to zoom in for a "street view" and it's like we were there.  We saw my old house as if we were standing right in front of it.  SO cool and so neat.  My kids were able to see where I spent many of my growing up years!  We also visited the church that my Dad started in Cheektowaga.  Amazing.  We've wanted to take a road trip up that way, but until we actually do, it was fun to go on a virtual trip to my old stomping grounds.

Fungus Alert

Today my son brought me a gift.

He put it in the water for me, too.  God bless him.  I need to have a chat with him before he starts thinking seriously about girls.....

 

Exercise Challenge

Things are still in the settling down mode around here.  Darin had to work late into the night Monday and Tuesday, but I believe that is officially over!  What a summer this has been.  Wednesday night we had our date night - shoulda been here.  We don't actually go anywhere on our date nights because we can't afford a sitter for 5 kids, so we hang out here at home.  Last Wednesday Darin brought home a movie for us to watch together and I was so festive - I fell asleep!  What a great date.  ;-)

Anywho.....so I didn't get in as much exercise as I wanted to last week.  We also went to birthday celebrations Saturday and Sunday nights.  At this point, I'm figuring something is better than nothing, so I'm not gonna get bitter.  ;-)  Today I have begun a 40 day sugar fast.  Last time I did this I was in college.  I was trying to lose weight that I didn't really need to lose.  Those were the days, my friends. 

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Back in the Exercise Challenge Again

What a great song.  Love the oldies and goodies.  And it's a perfect song for me this week cause I am truly back into the exercising groove.  I did plan on just walking one mile every night, for a total of seven miles each week, but the I ran into this link.  Here's the part that got me moving more than I planned: The  study found

that after 2 years women lost an average of 5% of initial weight with no significant difference between the exercise groups. However, about a 25% of women who lost 10% of their initial weight loss reported to exercise an average of 1,835 calories per week, which represent 275 minutes per week. If you divide this amount by five days you get an amount of exercise of 55 minutes per day (5 days a week).

I read it on Friday night, and on Saturday I got started.  I worked out with my Cindy Crawford DVD which is about a 40 minute workout.  Then I did a 2-milk walk with Leslie Sansone, which was 30 minutes.  My legs were sore on Sunday, but I grabbed my husband and we did the 4-mile walk with Leslie, which is about 60 minutes. 

It occurred to me that the only two ladies to report any weight loss are doing this kind of exercising.  De'Etta figures her exercising in minutes achieved, and Kristy works out with Leslie Sansone, using her longer walks, which are an hour or more.  So there it is.  We have to move more!  To fit this in, I've had to make a schedule for my evenings and am gonna have to be super-disciplined about it to be able to get the exercise in with all the other chores I have to get to while the kids are in bed.  No more aimless floating around.....I REALLY wanna lose this weight!!!

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