My Life Now

I was MUCH happier with this weeks weigh in.  Lost 1.2 pounds - that’s more like it!  LOL!

Yesterday I went home and heated up leftovers for dinner for DD#2 and myself.  The older kids were at theater practice, and the hubby was working.  After dinner, DD#2 and I went for a 25 minute walk.  I could have gone longer, but she was getting a little tired and I had to get back home to make dinner (not enough leftovers to reheat) for the second shift (kids and hubby).  :-)  I plan to walk everyday a minimum of 25 minutes with the baby (yeah, she’s still my baby even though she’s turning 6 next week).  It’s good exercise for the both of us, and we also get to spend time together and talk while we walk.  She got a huge kick out of it.

I also did some ab work in the morning and again before bed.  I have the Yoga Booty Ballet DVD’s.  I’m not crazy about the DVD to tell you the truth, but there is a segment on abs and I decided to try it.  It’s a short segment, like maybe 5 minutes.  Which is good because I can get it in before work, and then before bed.  The first time I did it, I really didn’t feel anything.  I felt like I was wasting my time.  I gave it another shot because I thought maybe I was doing the exercise wrong.  The second time was a tad more challenging.  The third time - OMG!!!  The exercises were the same, the intensity that I was doing them was the same, but I could really, REALLY feel it in the abs.  So I’m going to stick with this workout twice a day until I’m ready to move on to a different work out.  My biggest problem area is my tummy, and I know I will probably always have a little extra skin, but it would be nice to have it as tight as it can be.

I know I will need to step up the exercising, but this is a start for now.  I need to work up to 4 activity points a day in order to get in the 28 a week that WW suggests (especially when going into maintenance).

Small NSV:  I was sitting on the couch watching a movie with the hubby, and I was feeling snacky.  I had some points available, and some AP’s.  I’m trying not to eat after 7 though, and it was already 8:30.  I drank some diet iced tea instead, and that didn’t curb the urge to snack.  But I still resisted, and before I knew it the movie was over and it was time for bed!  I knew I really wasn’t hungry, so I wasn’t denying myself - I was being true to myself.  And that felt good because any other day I would have probably caved into the tempation, and probably eaten something that wasn’t healthy.

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