A new day

I've put this off long enough but it's time to lose this weight I have gained and to get healthy. I can't blame the weight gain on the stress of moving anymore since we've been in the house for a month now. Granted, I gained most of the weight back before we started the PCS process anyway, but details details....

John and I had talked about maybe getting a Bowflex once we were settled depending on if our new home allowed us the room to have one. We live about 15 minutes from post which isn't bad at all, but it's such an inconvenience I think to pack a gym bag, drive to the gym and back, line up child care or rotate with John so he can stay home with Chance....I just hate it. Which is why I haven't been in a gym in 8 months. It's so hard to keep consistent without a gym partner for me too.

We were in Sports Authority the other day browsing around and looked at the machines they had in the store. Prices seemed okay, but they charged a whopping amount for shipping. Yesterday out of boredom while John and Chance went to see Wolverine, I was looking online to see if I could find a better price online for the machines than what they had in the store. Oddly enough, I found myself on the Sports Authority website. They had the Revolution Bowflexes for about the same price as the power rod we saw in the store. Not only that but the shipping was FREEEEE!!! Whoohoo. I looked around some more online trying to find a better deal, but it would seem as though the Sports Authority deal was the best since it was already marked down to $1299 from $1999, the shipping was free and they included the $159 bench for free right now as well. I waited until John came home and talked it over with him (like he would say no anyway lol) but didn't place the order quite yet. Got up this morning and went back to the page to place the order but decided to check my favorite deal site for a coupon code. I try to avoid paying full price for anything and I love getting deals, so bookmark www.retailmenot.com and check it out anytime you want to order anything online. It's awesome! Well surely enough, they had a 10% off coupon code with a 100% success rate. I really didn't think it would work b/c it said can't be combined with any other offers, so I figured with the machine already being marked down $700 and getting the free bench and shipping-it wouldn't work. But it did! So that was another $130 off. So the order is placed and hopefully it will be here in the next week or so. That gives us enough time to get some of these boxes out of the garage to make room for it.

I hope it's easier to find the motivation to work out. I figure if John works out here instead of going to the gym, we can work out in the garage at the same time. I'll use the treadmill while he uses the Bowflex and vice versa.

I need to dust off the Wii Fit. I unpacked it yesterday to use the scale. It said I hadn't been on it in 136 days. How embarrassing! I can't remember when I was last weighed, but I went to the doctor for something and nearly passed out when they told me how much I weighed. Granted, that was fully clothed but still. Not a number I ever want to see again. So after that, I swore off the scale altogether. I remember that when I started working out when John was deployed, I started at a very unhealthy 152 pounds. I'm admitting that since I need to be held accountable. The weight the doctor gave me last was more than that, but actually if you deduct a couple of pounds for clothes, probably 152 still. I've been changing my eating habits in the last couple of weeks, but haven't really did any sort of exercise to go along with it. The good news is, I weighed myself yesterday and I am down a few pounds from the 152. But I have no idea the span of time that weight was lost since I haven't been weighed in awhile. I *think* the doctor visit was in february, so we'll go with that.

I bought a few pair of shorts the other week at target and while I always buy shorts a couple sizes too big to avoid any muffin top or them being too tight in the thighs, these are already bigger on me than when I bought them.

We went to dinner the other night and ordered an appetizer combo. John ate a couple of the potato skins, but left two on the plate, and I ate all of the little jalapeno pepper bites. By the time our entrees arrived-we were already full. I ate a few bites of my sweet potato and two bites of meat and asked for a box. I didn't even touch the salad and took it home as well. John took a couple bites of his food and asked for a box as well. Portion control is a major issue with both of us so this is a step in the right direction.

Chance is even helping us out in a big way and he doesn't even realize it. Everytime we're out, he would always ask for a Happy Meal. I've really tried to curb the addiction so to speak and the last few times we've been out and he's seen one-he'll say "I know I know, i'm not even going to ask. Happy Meals are bad for you" So this has kept John and I from giving in and eating the junk too.

So I am going to try and keep a log of what I eat and my activity log. I am awful about keeping up with logs, but I'll give it a try I suppose. Might as well start with today!!


Breakfast-
2 pieces of french toast (my husband rocks!)
probably a capful of pure organic maple syrup
glass of organic vanilla soymilk with one scoop of slim fast

Lunch-
a strawberry mango kiwi slushie with a splash of pom juice and flax meal
made it in the magic bullet mugs so it comes out to probably 5 strawberries, half a kiwi, and two slices mango. Still sipping on it even though it's been a couple of hours probably since I made it.

Snack-
5.5oz glass of low sodium V8 since it's the only way I can get down my grapefruit seed extract supplement without throwing it back up. (more on the GSE later!)

Dinner-
John's headed to Subway to pick up dinner. It's way too hot in this house to cook anything. So for dinner I'll have a 6 inch Subway Club on wheat with tons of vegetables. Not the best choice I'm sure, but not the worst. I'll save the other half for tomorrows lunch. I'll drink water instead of him getting me a drink and I opted not to get the chips.

Snack-
a cup of organic french vanilla stonyfield farms yogurt with a few frozen berries and 1/3 cup all bran mixed in.