And she's off!!!!! I started the Wii Fit training today. I gave myself 6 months to loose 22 pounds. Lets see if I can do it!!! I want to know if this Wii Fit actually works. I'm only using the Wii Fit, not the Wii Fit 2nd Edition.
Today I started out slow. I only did 30 minutes of combined workouts. I did a few Yoga poses, a few strength exercises, and a few aerobics exercises. I managed to work a total of 32 minutes today. That will be my goal for the first week. 30 minutes a day.
I think I will try it this way. 10 minutes of Yoga training, 10 minutes of Strength training, and 10 minutes of aerobics workouts. It's going to be hard though because you get more minutes doing the aerobics workouts.
The last time I started the Wii Fit I didn't feel like I was getting any exercise with it. But I am going to give it another shot, especially since I have it. So only time will tell. I am hopefully going to get in a 30 minute workout everyday. But I am not sure that'll happen. so my goal will be 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for the first week. Then I will go from there. So my first day worked well for me, now the hard part, trying to do this for 30 minutes a day with a toddler running around. Maybe I should do it while she naps. I will try to post everyday that I work out on the Wii Fit to keep track on what I do and how long I do it.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Time to Change
Well, I think I'm in a funk and it's time for a change. I need to start exercising again atleast three times a day. I've just got to get motivated to do it. I guess the motivation should be to lose 30 pounds right? That's what I want to lose, I have lost 5 pounds, from not eating nearly as much as I used to. But I'm not necessarily changing my diet, just eating less. It's hard to change my diet with a 2 year old and how expensive it is to do so in the first place. I've got a gym membership, I need to use it. I've also got the Wii Fit and quite a few workout tapes. I just never feel I'm doing the tapes right, and I don't feel I'm getting any results on the Wii Fit. I don't feel like I've worked out after I've done it for 30 minutes. Hmm.....I think I'm going to try to Wii Fit again, and make it my goal to workout on it 5 days a week for a month and see if I've managed to lose anything.
But I'm also in a baby funk. I wold like to try to have another baby but my husband is a no go. I'm not going to try without him on board and I do not think he will ever be on board. I don't understand why since he grew up with a much bigger family then myself. I would like Allison to have one sibling atleast. I would be fine with two children. I just don't want Allison to be alone like I was, but at this rate I think she will be alone. Either that or she'll be 5 years older then her sibling, if he ever wants another child. I hate these baby blues, I really wish they would flee from my thoughts for more than a week!!
Well those are my thoughts and this is why I need to change my routine and habits. Maybe I'll be a happier and much better person to be around then. So, I think I will start writing about my Wii Fit status every time I workout on it and I will weigh in every week to see if I've lost anything. I'm also thinking about the Special K challenge. Two challenges in one!! Only time will tell.
But I'm also in a baby funk. I wold like to try to have another baby but my husband is a no go. I'm not going to try without him on board and I do not think he will ever be on board. I don't understand why since he grew up with a much bigger family then myself. I would like Allison to have one sibling atleast. I would be fine with two children. I just don't want Allison to be alone like I was, but at this rate I think she will be alone. Either that or she'll be 5 years older then her sibling, if he ever wants another child. I hate these baby blues, I really wish they would flee from my thoughts for more than a week!!
Well those are my thoughts and this is why I need to change my routine and habits. Maybe I'll be a happier and much better person to be around then. So, I think I will start writing about my Wii Fit status every time I workout on it and I will weigh in every week to see if I've lost anything. I'm also thinking about the Special K challenge. Two challenges in one!! Only time will tell.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
ALLLLLLVIIIIIIIINNNNN!!!
Oh I think I might just die if I have to watch another Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon. this is Allisons thing right now. She loves them. I watch it atleast twice a day. I think she needs a detox. On another note Allison has been asking me for a baby lately. She wants me to have a baby for her. But alas there will be no baby until Jason is ready to start trying again. But I'm alright with that. On a good note, I have applied to another part time job today and I will be mailing in another resume to another job hopefully tomorrow, if not then on Monday. So I am looking. I applied for three jobs a few weeks ago as well. Well, that was my update for the day. Someone is finally coming over to fix the roof tomorrow morning at 8am and I will be up and ready for him. I will also hopeflly make it to playgroup unless I'm absolutely needed to stay home tomorrow morning. I will know tomorrow. Until then.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Stressed to the Max
Oh boy am I a big stress mess. I've been talking with my husband and I need to get a part time job. It's the only way we can save money. And I keep on thinking how much worse it would be for us if we didn't live with his parents. We'd have even more bills then we already have, and one bill is all mine and it's that stupid student loan payment.
I keep on getting told I'm not looking hard enough for a part time job that is suitable for me. The thing is I AM LOOKING!!!! I just don't know where to look, I've hit a dead end. Since I also have a 2 year old I have to think of some form of childcare for her that won't cost an arm and a leg. That's why I'm thinking about part time evening jobs, but it's not what my husband wants me to do. The thing that he doesn't understand is, there is nothing THAT I CAN THINK OF in the evening that is acceptable for him. Someone, anyone if you're reading this, please help me, give me advice, SOMETHING!!!!!!
Well that was my little jist for the day. Wish I cold talk more but I've got a dinner to check up on and a little one to look after. Until next time:)
Friday, January 8, 2010
A Fresh Start
Alright, this will be a fresh start. I thought I would start a blog and use it and I didn't. so one of my resolutions this year is to try to keep a regular blog. But who knows what will happen. Life has been good. The Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas season was wonderful.
We took Allison trick or treating on Halloween. We only did two cul-de-sacs. The last house we went to scared the little bear. She went to grap candy out of the bowl and the fog blower blew onto her and she ran away as fast as she could! she was pretty much done after that and it was cold for Halloween.
For Thanksgiving we went to visit Cindee and her family in Jacksonville Illinois. About an hour and a half south from here. It was great. We had good food, went and saw A Christmas Carol at the theater, spent time together with the whole family (though we missed Michael and the Hunsaker Family), spent the night and came back home the next day. The monday after thanksgiving was no fun here though. I got the stomach flu and was sick in bed for 24 hours. I then managed to pass some form of it around to everyone in the house, Allison was the only one who didn't get much of anything thank goodness. But for the rest of the week someone else in the house was sick. But eventually we all got better.
Then came Christmas. We put up the tree and decorated it as well as the rest of the house a few weeks before Christmas. We also realized that we couldn't put any Christmas presents under the tree without Allison throwing a deadful fit for not being able to open them. So the only presents we put under the tree are the ones she helped us wrap. Everything else had to wait until after she was asleep Christmas Eve Night. One of my favorite things that we do on Christmas is bake cookies and bring them to friends. We also read the birth story of Jesus in the Bible on Christmas Eve and we read The Night before Christmas. Christmas Day we opened presents. Allison had a moutain of presents to open and she ended up waiting to open her presents until she was ready and after she was finished playing with the previous present. I will have pictures soon! But Christmas was great as it always is.
Then came New Years. I was determinded to stay up till midnight, but as my luck had it I fell asleep 10 minutes before midnight. I woke up 10 minutes after midnight. The night was uneventful for us. But January 1st is the family annual finger foods day!!! We make lots of delicious treats and snack in two waves all day and into the night. Cindee and her family came to visit that day. We exchanged more presents, played games, hung out, and shared good food.
It is now January 8th and the Christmas decorations are all put away. Both Allison and I are sick once again. This time I think I have a sinus infection and my throat has been hurting me for 4 days now. Allison is just stuffy but she also has this nasty cough and coughs up stuff, but then swallows it instead of spitting it up. We are going to the doctor this afternoon to make sure we don't have anything that is in need of any antibiotics.
Goals for this year are to get Allison to sleep in her own room all night long with no problem. also to get Allison potty trained. I have a weight loss goal like everyone else does and I want to lose 35 pounds. I'm aready down 5 pounds, but I think it's from being sicj so it doesn't count. Jason and I both want to go on a vacation. An actual vacation and not just to visit other family members. So we are going to do that this year!! And I am going to try to save more money then I have been doing. We should be able to save almost a $1,000 a month and we only get $150 saved a month. So that needs to change, mainly I need to do things that don't cost money and I need to stay home instead of shopping a few times a week. So far, so good on that goal.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll update on my darling 2 year old Allison next time and talk about her adventures and her terrible two's!!! Until then.....
We took Allison trick or treating on Halloween. We only did two cul-de-sacs. The last house we went to scared the little bear. She went to grap candy out of the bowl and the fog blower blew onto her and she ran away as fast as she could! she was pretty much done after that and it was cold for Halloween.
For Thanksgiving we went to visit Cindee and her family in Jacksonville Illinois. About an hour and a half south from here. It was great. We had good food, went and saw A Christmas Carol at the theater, spent time together with the whole family (though we missed Michael and the Hunsaker Family), spent the night and came back home the next day. The monday after thanksgiving was no fun here though. I got the stomach flu and was sick in bed for 24 hours. I then managed to pass some form of it around to everyone in the house, Allison was the only one who didn't get much of anything thank goodness. But for the rest of the week someone else in the house was sick. But eventually we all got better.
Then came Christmas. We put up the tree and decorated it as well as the rest of the house a few weeks before Christmas. We also realized that we couldn't put any Christmas presents under the tree without Allison throwing a deadful fit for not being able to open them. So the only presents we put under the tree are the ones she helped us wrap. Everything else had to wait until after she was asleep Christmas Eve Night. One of my favorite things that we do on Christmas is bake cookies and bring them to friends. We also read the birth story of Jesus in the Bible on Christmas Eve and we read The Night before Christmas. Christmas Day we opened presents. Allison had a moutain of presents to open and she ended up waiting to open her presents until she was ready and after she was finished playing with the previous present. I will have pictures soon! But Christmas was great as it always is.
Then came New Years. I was determinded to stay up till midnight, but as my luck had it I fell asleep 10 minutes before midnight. I woke up 10 minutes after midnight. The night was uneventful for us. But January 1st is the family annual finger foods day!!! We make lots of delicious treats and snack in two waves all day and into the night. Cindee and her family came to visit that day. We exchanged more presents, played games, hung out, and shared good food.
It is now January 8th and the Christmas decorations are all put away. Both Allison and I are sick once again. This time I think I have a sinus infection and my throat has been hurting me for 4 days now. Allison is just stuffy but she also has this nasty cough and coughs up stuff, but then swallows it instead of spitting it up. We are going to the doctor this afternoon to make sure we don't have anything that is in need of any antibiotics.
Goals for this year are to get Allison to sleep in her own room all night long with no problem. also to get Allison potty trained. I have a weight loss goal like everyone else does and I want to lose 35 pounds. I'm aready down 5 pounds, but I think it's from being sicj so it doesn't count. Jason and I both want to go on a vacation. An actual vacation and not just to visit other family members. So we are going to do that this year!! And I am going to try to save more money then I have been doing. We should be able to save almost a $1,000 a month and we only get $150 saved a month. So that needs to change, mainly I need to do things that don't cost money and I need to stay home instead of shopping a few times a week. So far, so good on that goal.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll update on my darling 2 year old Allison next time and talk about her adventures and her terrible two's!!! Until then.....
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