Archive for a day in the life

Just Do It!!

Dance, that is! I recently got the Just Dance game for my Wii…and it is awesome. I play with the girl every day,a and just have so much fun and get some good exercise. I love that we can play at the same time instead of taking turns, so I can get in a good workout and play with her at the same time. I cannot do that with most Wii games we play…so this is great. As with most Wii games, you can play it lazy, but if you follow the moves (which is way more fun anyways) than it is a heart-pumping good time about as exerting as a high energy aerobics class. Eye of the Tiger, Pump up the Jam, and Who let the Dogs Out are particularly good songs to get the heart-rate up, so whatever song we do, I always make sure to get those 3 into the rotation! Take a look:

In other, related news, yesterday was my one week weigh in day (the doctor’s office was just checking) and I lost 2lbs, and my chest, hip and waist measurements all showed a 1/2 inch to full inch loss!

Tomorrow, I am going to my hair-dresser and saying “fix me”! My hair looks sorta like a mop…

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What I read in 2009

Sharing my 2009 book list, with some very mini reviews! Certain small people who don’t let me read much interfered with my reading this year and I read a lot less that usual…but I got some good ones it.

1) Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
This is a quick, easy feel good book. Would be great for a vacation..

2) Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy

3) Belong to me by Marisa De Los Santos

4) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Pretty heavy reading, but very good and well written.

5) Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult

6) Addition by Toni Jordan

7) The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

8 ) Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
A very interesting semi-true story of life for an American woman living in Taliban controlled Afghanistan.

9) The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

10) Shanghai Girls by Lisa See*

Loved it, like all See’s books!

11) Forgiving Troy by Thom Bierdz*

12) The School for Husbands by Wendy Holden

13) Any Man: A Fictionalized Account of Something That Really Happened by Louise Corum*

14) Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner

15) Catch Me When I Fall by Nicci French

16) Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

17) Still Life by Joy Fielding

18) Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison

19) Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff

20) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
So good. SO SO SO good.

21) While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky (audio)

22) The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
See number 20.

23) The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

24) The Help by Kathryn Stockett
This was recommended to me by many including several online reading group, and my mother. A wonderful book about the lives of black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

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Charly and the bear, edition 12!!!

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Umm yeah, so somebody is teething!

Here are my two big girls:
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the birthday girl would prefer playing to posing:
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and here she was, 365 days ago, straight from the…you know! My how she’s grown!
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HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY CHARLOTTE!!!

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Getting back in shape 2010!!!

OK it is seriously time for me to get in shape. I am not planning to do anything major from the get go (disordered eating person here), I find what works best for me physically and mentally is to make slow changes, gradually moving towards healthier eating and becoming more active as my way of life (until I get pregnant, but I am done with that LOL!). I have been trying for a while now…but need some motivation. I have always found the best motivation is to tell everyone I am on a weight loss kick…since it makes me feel more accountable and like I am being watched. So, I am involved in a private online group…and will cross post my daily posts there here, for you all to keep an eye on me as well!

I weighed and measured today:

180lbs (I was 189 November 5 when I got my yearly, so I guess my efforts over the last few months have been helping a bit! It was the doctor’s scale which tends to be a bit higher…but I was still closer to 190 than 180 at home back then, though I forget exactly what my home scale said! I am taking Charlotte in on January 4th and will weight myself there again then!)

46-chest

40-waist

44-hips

So, yeah. At least I am curvy! I am always very well proportioned, no matter what i weight…which is a good thing. My womanly  curves help my waist look smaller than it is!

I will not be eating very well today, because the house is still full of leftovers from a brunch we hosted yesterday…but will try to at least limit my portions, eat some fruit, have a healthy dinner (the leftovers are more lunch-ish), and exercise!

I know going back to work will help me with eating a lot, as I’ll be limited to what food I bring, or what food I get for lunch if I eat out (which I often do-but I do now as well…and then come home and snack, or snack in the mall). I am sure I’ll eat a lot better when I am back at work.

Exercise is another story. I have started getting back into it a bit for the last month or so, but am doing it when Charlotte is napping. I have to get accustomed to doing it after she goes to bed…or right after dinner (I could not exercise at home then, but I could run—I am a fair-weather runner though, and so will not be doing that until spring).

So my plan is to either do Wii exercise (I like Gold’s Gym Cardio)  or the elliptical at night after she goes to bed. The elliptical if there is something I want to watch on TV, the Wii if not. Start running again in the spring, and maybe on some particularly warm winter evenings or weekends.

Last night I did the Wii! Some Cardio boxing, some ab work, and some squats.

My ideal goal weight is 145 (which would take me out of “overweight” on the BMI charts) but my short term goal is 160. I actually was 160 a few years ago for a while before I got on the trying to get pregnant roller-coaster, and then got pregnant…and it was all shot to hell…and it is a really great weight for me, in spite of looking like a high number on the scale. For those that weren’t here back then, here I am at around 160:

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I still wear that sweater dress (but usually with leggings now, since it is shorter on my larger frame), so I will do so today and get a picture to compare.

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Nothin’ but some recent pics

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