Snow Day

Today was supposed to be the kids' first day back at school after the Christmas break (Yeah, I still say "Christmas" break instead of "holiday" or "winter" break - sue me)...but we got too much snow, so school was cancelled. Oh darn!

Today was going to be the first day I started my boot-camp style workout as well, and I almost decided against it with everyone home (hubby stayed home today, too, sick as a dog)...but I thought that would lead to me just giving up the entire week, so I attacked. I found a circuit of workouts that really killed, about 35 minutes total. I was hoping for an hour, but I think I'll need to work up to that. The exercises are very intense, and an hour of that probably would have landed me in the E/R...I'm assuming I'm gonna be very sore and stiff tomorrow, so I'm planning on just doing cardio tomorrow, and laying off the "intense" exercises until Friday.

I really want to do well in the 3-Day walk this year and it's depressing beyond belief that I've been off work 3 months and have only lost 5 lbs. I'm not as concerned with the NUMBER of my weight, as I am with the distribution. I don't even own a scale. One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone complains they've lost weight overnight, or heaven forbid, GAINED weight overnight. YOU DIDN'T GAIN THREE POUNDS OVERNIGHT! It's called water weight fluctuation, people. Read about it. I believe in the old "weigh yourself once a week or some other regular time-frame, same time of the day, and keep track"....only then, by COMPARING long-term, can you really determine if you are losing weight.

And me, I can tell when my clothes start fitting better, so I just use that as my scale. The only time I get on an actual scale is when I'm at the dr. I would like to get a scale, but at the same time, it helps because I know my doctor's scale is constant and I can use it as a good measure. I don't go to the dr. much, but I was just there a few weeks ago, and I had lost 5 lbs since the last time, so that's ok by me.

Anyway, I'm so sick of this extra weight I'm carrying around, and lately, I've been much more "aware" whether it be the other moms at school who are just oh-so-skinny, or while I've been Christmas shopping, just people watching in general...I know I'll never be rail thin, and I don't want to be, but I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to lose about 30 lbs. That's do-able, isn't it? Yes, I think it is.

http://www.mibootcamps.com/

I found this and thought it would be REALLY great, cuz my problem has always been motivation (oh, ok, that and chocolate chip cookies)...and I would love a structured, really intense, every-day workout. Alas, I do not have $300 to blow right now, being unemployed. So I'm making the best with what I have: Weights, Staionary Bike, Lots of room in my basement, and lots of knowledge of specific exercises, and TIME. Heck, I'm home all the time now, there's no excuse for me to not execise every day. Plus a couple new videos and routines from Comcast On Demand....anybody else have any "fail safe" procedures, tips, or tricks they wanna share? Please feel free!



And this concludes the typical, cliche, "new years resolution-gonna lose weight" blog. We now return to your regularly scheduled program.