As my first official post, I’d like say how excited I am to finally be writing. I don’t know that I’m any good at this blogging business; however I don’t think that it matters as long as it’s serving its general purpose of keeping me on track.
With that out of the way, I’ve officially gone to the gym 3 times in 3 weeks. This is a sad little number, as usual the normal woes of life have been keeping me inside a bubble of noncommittal behaviors…visitors here, more interesting activities there and my personal favorite, lack of time. This is not just an excuse; trust me I’ve convinced myself! I work 4 hours on Tuesdays, 9 hours on Wednesdays and Thursday and 8 hours on Friday. Saturday and Sunday are my primary workout days…the baby wakes up, I feed her and then flee to the gym for an hour or until my water runs out while my husband keeps her at bay. Yes I know I don’t work Mondays and only 4 hours on Tuesday, but I can’t bring myself to leave her on the days my husband is out. So I’ve decided on those days I need to do an at home work out. Never fear I have bought an oversized exercise ball and a medium band that Women’s Health tells me will do the trick. I have yet to experiment with these little beauties but the results seem promising! As far as Friday goes I have a very firm belief in NOT starting my weekends with sweat and the possibility of tears, so it’s out. Maybe I’m being inflexible and rigid about my schedule, perhaps with time I can get over some of these little issues!
Enough about working out…on to food. I’m ignoring the last 3 weeks intake except for the protein plate from Starbucks that was immediately counteracted by a grande white chocolate mocha. (low fat milk-no whip, of course!) Today in general has been a success, though I did find a new “chip” from Rice Works called Baked Cinnamon…holy crap, they are amazing. Ten chips is a serving and there are 5 servings in bag, so after eating at least 2 ½ servings in my car on the way back to work it’s clear to me that I need to ration these bad boys in to Ziplock bags, which of course I completely forgot to pick up at the store the other day. My goal for eating is to RATION, I want to eat what I like but do it more responsibly…that is the hope, I refuse to diet…tell me not to eat chocolate and that’s a good way to find that I’ve retreated to Hershey Pennsylvania and eaten my body weight in Kisses!
On to dinner and another day! Wish me luck!
I want to just add a bit of encouragement for your efforts. I too have found myself to be full of excuses when it comes to working out. I had a baby a year ago and still had 10 pounds to lose(I gained A LOT). I say 'had' because since you started posting about working out on Facebook it gave me a little nudge to stop excusing myself! I have been working out entirely at home using the Wii Fit EA Sports Active. I have lost 5 of the 10 pounds. Only 5 more to go. I'm hoping it will be gone for the birthday party but that's only a week away! Glad you are doing this Rebecca! Toned abs and rock hard buns here we come!! :)
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