A frustrating day....and some highlights too

Today I did not have to work, but I still spent most of the day on my computer...which is totally annoying by itself. I have been trying to build myself a website for my Million Dollar Body coaching page, and to make a very long sob story short....it has.not.been.going.well.
So I probably spent 6-8 hours on the computer today, and have really nothing to show for it.

As a highlight, little Maree bursts into the bathroom this morning while I'm in the shower and says "I DID IT MOMMY, I DID IT". What did you do Maree? "I BLEW A BUBBLE". She came in about 6 times during my shower to tell me she had blown a bubble. As I was getting ready, she then declared "I'm a big girl now mommy". Yep, she can officially blow a bubble...although technically she is sucking it in to make a very loud pop, rather than blowing the bubble out. When she shared her new skill with her brother, he started practicing, and then he was able to blow a bubble (out rather than in). So all day, they were blowing bubbles.

And...finally...something to add to my list of "things I never thought I'd say as a parent"

To Maree... "please stop pretending to burp"
"Why do you have your brother's underwear on......again"

1 week closer

Well that week just flew by! Now there are only 23 days until Cabo. Yesterday we got a call saying that our flight home had been changed. Turns out that instead of getting home at 6:45pm, we now get in 4 hours later, and have a 4 hour layover in Phoenix. Was a little miffed about that since I booked the tickets (with the most minimal layover time) back in June. Oh well, not much we can do about it.
Workouts and eating have been good since Monday. I was going to take just Saturday as a free day, but then when we had the family dinner on Friday, sledding on Saturday, and a family lunch on Sunday, well, basically it was like 2 1/2 free days, although I didn't do nearly as bad as some of my free days. I did happen to get on the scale yesterday and was completely disappointed by the number. For one, I don't even know why I get on the stupid thing...well, that's not completely true...I just wish wish wish for a low number and if by chance it is low, then I feel great all day, and get a new wind of motivation. However, if it's higher than I had hoped, I get irritated, and go eat a bowl of cereal!!! Logically I know that scale weight is a horrible measure of what is really going on in one's body, but the only time I am really good at staying off of it is when I've been eating like crap.
Anyway, the workouts are still fun. I've been combining Power 90 sculpt workouts with Turbo Jam cardio workouts. Yesterday during the sculpt video I did a total of like 70 pushups, 27 of them were consecutively.
Steve has fallen off the Power 90 wagon as he "dislocated" his shoulder while sledding (2nd year that's happened). Speaking of sledding, during this ride where said shoulder was "dislocated", Steve was going down on the tube (big sledding tube with no hole in the middle) with little Maree. He thinks that he has more control going down on his stomach, laying on Maree. However, the place where we sled has 3 humps, so you can get some good air. So they start going down, hit the hump, fly through the air, land....and Steve is trying not to crush poor Maree underneath him, so he lands somewhat on his shoulder (hence the "dislocation"), and proceeds to roll OFF the tube leaving Maree to continue down the hill by her happy self. Mind you, she's not hanging on! Also, where we sled is not really a sledding hill, it's just a place we found one year after discovering the actual sledding hill was really crowded. So at our sledding hill, you have to either stop yourself before you get to a barbed wire fence, or well, hit the fence (not a good plan). Now when the adults go down, this is not really a problem because our feet reach off the tube, and you can slow yourself down at the appropriate time, and the first couple of times we went down, the snow was so powdery that the tubes just stopped. However, after packing down the snow after a few rides, the trail was getting faster and faster. So, here comes Maree down the hill by herself. If we had known she would be going down by herself we would have stood at the end to make sure to stop her before reaching the fence...however, we were no where close, so we stood there watching in slow motion, praying that she would not fly right into that fence. Luckily all was well, and she slowed down, and was SO exciting that she went down by herself! She thought it was great fun.
Soon after this event with Maree, Aaron had climbed to the top of the hill (quite a feat in itself), and was going to go down by himself. Steve as staged at the bottom to catch Aaron. Aaron got some great air on the jumps and was coming down FAST. Steve was standing in an area of the snow that had been sledding on several times, so it was all packed down. So Aaron is approaching Steve going faster than usual...and I'm thinking "oh dear Lord this is not going to end well". So Steve, doing his best to stop him, throws all his weight into the inner tube, stopping it in a heartbeat, meanwhile Aaron comes off the thing like a missile, flies through the air and lands up to his shoulders in the snow....with his feet in the air. Kind of like a cartoon. Steve yanks him out of the snow, and all I can see is snow sticking out of his ears. Anyway, he was okay, and eventually thought it was cool, although he asked Steve "why didn't you catch me". We then had to talk about the laws of physics etc.
Just to give you a better visual...here is a video of Steve on the same hill 2 years ago....

I love UPS

UPS brought me my new boots today, LOVE them! Also brought me a new game for my PSP, yes I do own one of my very own. I love getting packages!

Today I did a new workout video. Technically I'm doing Power 90, but because today is cardio day, I figured I could do any cardio video. I like the Turbo Jam videos, so I did the Turbo Jam cardio. Wowser!!! I burned 600 calories (including cool down), and got to a fitness effect of 4.8 on my watch!!! 4.8!!! That was about a 40-45 minute workout, and it was actually pretty fun. It's also low impact, so that is a nice change.

I haven't had a free day since last Tuesday (day before I started getting serious), and I'm really ready for one. Usually I have 1 free day out of every 7 day period. I plan on taking one on Saturday, as hopefully we are going with friends to take the kids sledding ...well, and go sledding ourselves, it is a blast!! Then we are having a family dinner, so it will be nice not to have to think about food!

30 days until Cabo

Ask, and ye shall receive....

God bless my dear husband. The other day while perusing the Victoria's Secret website for some swimsuits for Cabo, I came across a great pair of boots. I've been looking for some brown boots for at least 2 months, and haven't found any that I liked, until I saw these Skechers on VS
I emailed DH while he was at work, and gave him a "birthday" hint for these boots, in brown, size 8 :) . My birthday isn't until April, but I figure it's always good to plan ahead. So my swimsuits came ( I picked 2, and planned on sending 1 back), and luckily the cheaper swimsuit is the one I really like, so I'm sending a $70 swimsuit back. The boots are only $59, so I was thinking I would just exchange the swimsuit for the boots. When I tell my DH my plan, he says, "but you said you wanted those for your birthday"...once again with the look (reference Suunto watch buying here) that says....I already bought those for you. And so I ask, "did you buy them for me"...mind you it was only a day after the email, so I didn't think he would act that fast. He just smiled...and I knew he had bought them. He says they are my Valentine's present :) Yippeeeeeeeeee!


P.S. Would someone please tell my dear sister to continue blogging...she's fallen into the non-blogging abyss.

Day 3 of clean eating and exercise

So DH and I have completed 3 days of exercising together, which is just great, especially for DH. Today we did the P90 sweat 1-2 and ab ripper 100. I had not done the P90 sweat (cardio) yet, and was thinking that it might be too easy, but boy was I wrong. In the 40 minutes I burned 377 calories (that was the 35 minutes of cardio and 4 minutes of abs). I got to a training effect of 3.4 on my Suunto t4 watch, which seems like a good number.

Here's a funny video I found of the Power 90 sweat 1-2, they condensed the whole workout (including abs) to 6+ minutes.




Eating has been good too. Even DH has given up regular soda and is trying diet instead...this is HUGE for him. Last night he cooked up chicken and green beens for dinner, and he's even been having cereal for breakfast...usually he skips breakfast altogether.
I ordered some Victoria's Secret swimsuits, which are on the UPS truck on their way to my house as we speak. When they get here, we are then taking beginning progress photos.

Okay, DH just downed a glass of chocolate milk claiming it was for muscle recovery (I've previously blogged about the benefits of low fat chocolate milk for a post workout recovery drink). I tried to explain that the chocolate milk should be saved for post weight lifting/resistance training workouts, but he insisted that his muscles were sore.

:)

Getting serious

Although I worked out yesterday, I had decided not to start my serious clean eating until today because I still had so much junk in my house from all the holiday festivities. So last night we went to the grocery store around dinner time, and I was already starving, and the one thing that sounded good was Arby's chicken fingers and curly fries. DH readily agreed that this should by our final meal before jumping back on the proverbial band wagon. It was so good, and was followed up with a bunch of chocolate. So now I have that out of my system and am ready for the clean eating for the next several weeks (with free days mixed in of course).
My abs are quite sore from the 4 minute ab ripper 100 video yesterday. I'm actually pretty surprised at that!
Today I think I will try another Turbo Jam video...then DH and I are suppose to do cardio tonight, but we have a family dinner planned, then I was invited to a friends birthday party after that, so we'll see if DH will do it on his own. I'm thinking not, but I could be wrong.

Happy New Year!!

Wow, 2008! I now get to say that we are going to Cabo next month, wooohooooo!!!
My Dad had wanted to see some of the Beachbody/Million Dollar Body videos so he came over this morning to do a workout with me, and DH decided to do it too....so it was all 3 of us working out in our living room. We did the P90 circuit 1-2 which was a good workout. It was fairly short (29 minutes), and definitely a good place to start for beginners....maybe a little too easy for me. Then we did (just Dad and I....DH thought he was going to vomit) the 4 minute P90 ab ripper 100, which was 10 reps/10 different exercises for a total of 100 reps.
DH has decided he is going to do P90 with me, although I think I might try to do some of the P90x as well as it is a little more advanced than the P90. DH hasn't worked out in over a year, so P90 will be a good starting place for him....and he's not aiming to lose weight (he's a stick), but rather, add muscle. It should be interesting to see what we can do in the next 39 days.

Happy New year!!