I really stink at blogging! I really want to keep up with it. Today I realized that maybe I should enter my Facebook Status Update on to my blog and call it a day! Some of my updates are bloggy enough, you know? Long winded, will she just get to the point?! :D
So here is my Facebook status update, that I typed into Facebook, but copied and pasted here- and never posted to Facebook.
Its 10:30 and I've already done a big workout for me!!! I call it the Hulu workout. I walk in place, side step, sweat, and lift my medicine ball while while marching in place and watching an hour long program on Hulu. I got my moves from the Leslie Sansone walking videos (I just get irritated with her cheesiness on the videos, so I do her moves myself).Whats great about Hulu (well, in other instances its annoying) are the commercial breaks every 8 minutes or so. They're normally 30-60 minutes, giving me a chance to sit for a few seconds, stretch my back, take a drink- without cooling down:) So I'm good and caught up on last nights Beauty and the Beast, done with my workout, and ready to finish laundry before the weekend starts!
Today is a very important day to me. It marks 150 days of counting calories. I never thought I would be able to stick to counting calories for so long. I think in the whole time, there have only been a handful to times that I didn't complete the whole day (ie- I counted breakfast and lunch, but I had no idea how to count my friends meal they cooked for us- although I still applied healthy eating habits to my choices, etc...). I'm disappointed that I haven't lost much weight. You'd think that since I'm quite heavy, the weight would literally fall off...but it hasn't. I still wonder if I've cut my calories back too drastically (although after 150 days you'd think my body would have realized that's all its going to get- get used to it!). I keep it to 1200-1500 a day, which is pretty typical for dieters. I was eating around 3000+ with all the cheap fast food I was eating, almost every day. I've not had fast food in that whole time either. I do allow myself the grilled chicken salads if the rest of my family wants to eat at Chick Fil A or McDonalds, but they have to have the low calorie dressing and the salad itself has to be on the lower end of calories. But I haven't had a cheeseburger in that whole time.
So I'm hoping that since I've decided to suck it up and workout at home, I'm hoping that will help me meet some goals. I am not, nor will I ever be a gym rat. In fact, we still pay for our gym membership, but I haven't been there in months. There literally is no time to go. Some people say "Then you make time". My response...colorful words. I am not willing to sacrifice the few hours I get to hang out with my hubby and daughter as a family, so I can leave him and go to the gym after dinner. Besides, there's usually only 3 hours between John coming home and us all going to bed. No time. And I don't have a car to get out during the day. And my gym opens after John leaves for work and closes at 8....I should probably cancel it. So since things have changed so much in our home with work schedules, I'm trying to get in some workout times when the kids are playing. Or while we watch TV at night. I'm excited for this new, new start:)
