TGIF!

Stupid Blogger ate my post. It was good, too.

Anyway, checking in with the 4 Mile Super Challenge from Leslie Sansone. It's an older one, so she's not as silly, and the cueing is decent. James Brown is nowhere to be seen!

I'm going out of town this weekend, so I'll pop by when I can.

TGIF

Yeah, it's cliche, but totally fitting. I'm glad it's Friday, and I'm glad I don't have to go to work Monday or Tuesday. We're going to visit my folks this weekend, and one of my former best friends is getting married. We'll go to that.



I've been trying very hard to find a card for the happy couple. One that would say, "You picked the wrong guy, and you gave him the wrong finger." Surprisingly, cards like that don't exist. That may be a new business venture for me. I won't go into the reasons why I'm not over the moon estatic, but hey, I'll be there, so I'll shut my face up and plaster on a smile.



Checking in with Leslie Sansone's 4 Mile Super Challenge. I know that I've expressed annoyance with Miss Leslie in the past, but she's perfect for pregnancy. I don't like getting my heart rate too high, so I've stopped doing Firm Cardio. For a while, I was doing Firm sculpting, but I moved away from that, too. For no particular reason, really. I just didn't feel like doing weights, and lugging around the fanny lifter. I'm going back to it because I'll be lugging a baby around soon enough. I need to be strong!

It's Been A While

But I have a really good excuse - I'm knocked up!

I'm 21 weeks along now (5 months in regular people terms). I was so freaking shocked that I just stopped posting. Not that this isn't a good thing - it's awesome! We just weren't expecting it to happen so quickly.

Needless to say, my weight loss journey is on hold. I didn't exercise for the first 3 months, but I've been doing Walk Away the Pounds and light sculpting for the past 2 months. It's been really helpful. I feel so much better with this pregnancy than I did with my last. Even Leslie's incessant chatter doesn't bother me. Well, not as much. I'm only human.

I decided maybe I should start posting again. The world needs me. By world, I mean the people who read this blog, so essentially no one. I don't really care.

My posts may be a little more general and not quite as fitness related. Daily musings and what- not. I'm still undecided. I haven't found a blog to stalk that talks about prenatal fitness really, so I may just have to start one.

Wednesday Weight In

Bad blogger! Friends, it's been a hectic week - but I promise to do better! I'm checking in to report that I lost 1.6 pounds. A little shy of my 2 pound goal for the week - but who cares? Woo hoo! 4.6 pounds in 2 weeks - I'm working it out!

It's Friday - Yay!

I'm so glad it's Friday! This week has gone by quickly, but I'm really tired. I think I'm still tired from last Saturday. Hopefully I will just get a chance to chill tonight.

I did really well at the Japanese place last night. I ended up getting the shrimp hibachi with steamed rice and veggies, and a 1/2 c of miso soup. I used 12 of my Flexxies. Yay for me. I was going for just sushi, but I knew that if everyone else started getting rice and chicken, I would regret it. So I made my choice and was fine with it. I really would like to get to the point where I don't agonize about everything I put in my mouth. (That's what she said.)

Anyway, I'm on this healthy(ish) food kick and last night I mentioned that I hadn't been to McDonald's since seeing this Big Mac experiment. This one chick got all up in arms and wanted to know how I could believe the experiment since I didn't see the entire thing with my own eyes. She's a super picky eater and eats Mickey D's quite frequently. She really got pissed, which took me off guard. She wanted to know what food is supposed to do - I'm like, "Uh, decompose?"

I don't want to become this overbearing healthy food zealot, so I'll slow my roll when talking to other people. Obviously, they don't want to hear it. I can only do what's best for me and my fam, but it does dismay me that people are so obviously killing themselves. I was doing it right along with them, so maybe I'm too gung ho. You know, like the person who just got out of rehab and they're trying to tell everybody how to live their life? That's me!

Would You Spend $120,000 on Bottled Water?

You lucky, lucky readers:

You get to hear from me 4 times today! Yeah, I don't have much to do - what about it? There is an interesting post on Elastic Waist about how stingy you are when it comes to your health.

I get a lot of shit about spending more money on organic food, or buying workout clothes, or special workout shoes. I actually chalk this up to ignorance. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, I mean it in it's literal meaning. People don't think about what their bodies do for them everyday. Not to be all preachy, but we have been blessed with healthy bodies and sound minds, and I want to take care of mine. If that means that I spend $4.00 on organic pears, I'm OK with that.

I used to feel the same way. It's just food, right? WRONG. Now I have my moments of weakness (see previous post), but I wholeheartedly believe in putting whole foods in my body. Not Frankenfoods that I can't pronounce, or sound vaguely ominous. (Yellow lake#5? What the hell?)

I read that Americans take a lot longer to decompose when we die because embalm ourselves from all the preservatives in our food. Freaky, right?

I Don't Wanna Work, I Wanna Play All Day!

So, I have a ton of things to do and no motivation to do them. It's monsooning outside, and I just want to go to sleep. Since I'm doing away with mindless eating, I'm blogging instead.

I am going to meet friends for dinner tonight, and I'm a little nervous. Japanese food by nature is fiarly healthy, but we're going to a Japanese steakhouse, which can be tricky. Lots of oil and margarine. I want hibachi, but honestly, I don't feel like trying to determine how many points is in it. Lazy, I am.

WW lists 1 cup of hibachi shrimp as 5 points, and a cup of veggies as 4 points. (Allotting for the oil and margarine, I assume. ) But I bet they aren't counting that awesome orange ginger sauce that they cover the shrimp. Did I mention it's awesome?

I just started over with Flexxies, and I have 33.5 left. I'm not really digging using all of my flexxies up on one meal, so I may just get sushi and miso soup. I'm really going for the company anyway.

My problem is that I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. I'm really trying to change that. If I screw up tonight, I'm afraid that I will toss the whole healthy eating thing out of the window. Intellectually, I know that if I ate what I really want tonight (filet) I could just hop back on the wagon and do well tomorrow. But then I will have screwed up my points, and it just wouldn't be the same.

Why am I so hard on myself? I'm a reformed perfectionist. If I can't do it right, then I don't want to do it at all, which is really a silly way to handle food. If this is a lifestyle change for me, then why shouldn't I eat the things that I want in moderation? Why do I have such little faith in myself?

I'm so afraid that I will fall off and then I will be the same size a year from now. I'm so serious about trying to make change, but it's scary. I've failed at this before, and I don't like that feeling.

I will succeed!

Ugh, sorry about the angst ridden post. I should put on my flannel shirt and party like it's 1994. Notice my uplifting proclamation at the end. Imagine me pumping me fist in a very uplifting manner while I shout, " I will succeed!" No? OK then.