Catching up

So this post will be all about yesterday, because today hasn't really happened yet. Other than my darling Mr. Man letting me sleep in this morning - he's so wonderful! I was TRYING to rally myself this morning to get Little Miss when she woke up, but the stuffy head just kept taking over and then he got up and I was out of it for another two hours....CRAZY!

YESTERDAY
Little Miss and I went with our buddies Big Momma & Godzilla (Big Momma has two darling little girls and is incubating a third...when the third shows up we'll have to call her something else 'cause she won't be Big anymore...sad for my creativity...AND the two little girls LOVE Little Miss, tending to terrorize the poor darling with their adoration, and I call the couple of them Godzilla. ANYWAY...) to Marineland in the morning and wandered around the whole park looking for the beluga whales. What's that? A MAP?!? TOTALLY overrated! If we'd HAD a map we would have taken the SHORT route and not have found all the other cool hidden rides and things we did that I totally intend to drag Mr. Man back to ride on one day before the season's over. AND would have used up many less calories to boot. ;)

THEN we headed back to town, hit McD's for lunch - Little Miss can totally down a grilled cheese and apple slices happy meal. Okay, okay, so she only ate half the sandwhich, but for being such a tiny tyke that's pretty darn good! - and then home for NAPTIME. I LOVE naptime.

I spent 30 minutes on the Wii Fit, mostly rhythm boxing and super hoola hoop, my two new addictions (I'm not feeling up to an extended run yet - head's too stuffy), and then 45 minutes yogilates.

Soccer last night, too. I played like a BUM. I know I played lousy because there's this wonderful player on our team who can be quite..."encouraging" at times if you're slacking off, and she was HOLLERING at me the whole game!! I'm all GAH! I'm SORRY, I'm TRYING!! Anyway, a stuffy head will do that to you. AND I was trying to supervise the care of Little Miss by a 10 year old on the sidelines from the opposite side of the field - that was a little distracting.

In total I was probably on the field 1 hr 10 mins.

TODAY
Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 177.9
BMI - 28.59

I FINALLY broke the upward trend. SO weird. Maybe it is just a measure of the amount of snot in between my eyes??

Stuffy nose, day two.

Still sick. Lazing on the couch is apparently not fixing me as fast as I had hoped. No matter, I don't really feel all THAT horrid except first thing in the morning and...now, actually. Day's winding down, I'm exhausted! Sinuses feel about a thousand times worse than they have all day... Oh, who doesn't love a good cold???

Maybe my recent weight gain is just pounds of GUNK stuffed up in my head. That's certainly what it feels like.

Anyway, at Little Miss' naptime today I felt pretty good, though hungry, and so:

TODAY
30 minutes Wii Fit "aerobics" - mostly rhythm boxing and super hoola hoop, with some stepping to warm up. I'm addicted to rhythm boxing - SO much fun! Anyway, I worked up such a good sweat today I left footprints on the balance board. hahaha GROSS!
45 minutes yogilates

Wii Fit measures
Weight - 179.0 lbs
BMI - 28.77

Sooooooo...seriously, besides the head cold I don't know what's so different this week that I keep gaining weight. I'm not overly concerned at the moment - weight does fluctuate all over the place day to day, and in women different times of one's cycle have an effect (aren't you boys just all so darned glad you had a chance to read that?? LUCKY!!!). If Auntie Flow comes to visit in the next few days we should have our answer. ;) hahaha OR if the snot-brigade LEAVES and I'm suddenly that-much-closer to a "normal" BMI (GARBAGE!!) then WOW apparently snot has quite the weight to it!!

Regardless of what the measurements are showing let's just all pray for me that I can fit back into a few of my clothes such that I have something to wear to school when it starts up again next week! ;)

Illness blows....my nose!

This morning I woke up to the sounds of Little Miss crying, waiting for one of her wonderful parents to come and rescue her from the prison that is her crib, and felt as though my head had been run over, back and forth, back and forth, by a mack truck throughout my sleep. Thankfully, with Mr. Man working later hours this week he's happy to get up and spend time with Little Miss, so he did this morning, and instead of getting up to go for a run with my incredibly over-stuffed-with-snot-and-gunk head I went back to sleep.

I know, I know. It might sound lazy, but I HATE having a cold. I want a cold to get in, do it's business, and get the HECK out as soon as possible, so I spend as much time as possible when I'm sick doing as little as possible so my poor ailing body can fight the good fight against whatever on Earth is infecting my innards and causing them to leak out my nose.

Too bad yesterday I didn't know I was going to be sick today, or I would have gone for a run then. Huh. One of those hindsight's 20/20 moments, I guess. Maybe I should just start overacheiving a bit regularly and run EVERY DAY, so then when I have a sick day, or week, it's not such a big deal. And maybe I'd be oh so wicked-uber-hot faster, too. Huh. What a novel idea. Work begets results. Who knew??

I think I'm really onto something here!

In the meantime I won't bore you with the tale of how Little Miss and I messed up my Wii Fit goals and Mr. Man made it worse and then fixed it - I didn't get to tell you about my weight gain yesterday as we were trying to outsmart the Fit and get my goal set back as something feesible instead of a BMI of 0.85 with a weight of 5lbs. Serious. It was weird.

TODAY:
45 minutes yogilates - I watched the first 20 minutes or so of the intermediate workout today to see if I think I'm ready. I think with the cold and the whole...yeah I'm not ready to try and do that stuff yet. I'll need Mr. Man to be on standby to help me get out of some of those moves! I don't think my legs will ever be that flexible! BUT I'm going to give myself another good while on my beginner DVD and then actually TRY the intermediate. One day when I'm NOT sick. Maybe my birthday.
A whopping 15 minutes of Wii Fit aerobics - light, low intensity, got my heart going without killing my poor stuffy head. And I do LOVE the hoola hoop game, and the rhythm boxing makes me feel tough. ;)

Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 178.6 lbs
BMI - 28.70

Boo for being heavier, BUT it's just a scale so doesn't really matter. We'll do another picture of the spare tire next month and see how the progress is going that way. My darling friends tonight tell me I look good - Mr. Man must have paid them good! ;) hahaha KIDDING! I KNOW I'm hot. ;)

Monday, Monday

So it's Monday. The weekend was a write-off for exercise, as it often is, but I DID make an effort to NOT eat like the pig that I can sometimes be known to be. I was never in danger of being thought of as one of those girls on a date who doesn't eat. I could out-eat most of the boys. Ever heard of Fuddruckers pound challenge? Piece of cake. ;) Well, actually, 1 pound burger, bun, large chili fries (I hate chili, by the way), a fountain drink, and wowzers that's not a small sundae. I totally earned that t-shirt, though, and yes, I most certainly AM man enough!

Mr. Man, I don't think I mentioned, graduated with his BSc in Compuer Science this past spring (HOORAY!) and pretty quickly got a job which rocks my socks, BUT because of the nature of the company and what he does his hours are a little bit all over the map. A couple weeks ago it was 7am-3pm, last week 10am-6pm, and this week we're at 11:30am-7:30am. Anyway, so it's difficult to get the swing of things routine with his highness dropping in and out whenever BUT, TODAY, with the darlin' not having to be at work 'till almost noon we had a good morning. :) There was enough time to sleep AND hang out before he had to get ready for work, which is OH so nice!! So with THAT said:

TODAY:
Ran WITHOUT my BOB stroller first thing this morning, because Mr. Man was home!! Started the running a wee bit closer to home than I usually do, ran the ENTIRE path, there AND back, no breaks. Took about 25 minutes. I wanted to die. I've decided that the path THERE is mostly slightly uphill, which means coming BACK is easier, but by the time I get to coming back I'm OH so dead friggin tired from running uphill all that way.... And apparently, as awesome as my stroller is I can run an eensy bit further without pushing it along. Who knew?? And obviously, when I wasn't running, I was walking either TO the path, or on the way home. Walked about 25 minutes - out for 50. (I definately did something faster today because I went the exact same route I always do and shaved about 10 minutes off my time)
45 minutes yogilates.

Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 176.4 lbs
BMI - 28.34

Laaaaazy, yet productive.

So today was good. I didn't almost accidentally kill anyone, though I was a wee bit apprehensive about Little Miss eating peanut butter n' jelly JUST IN CASE she's got some hidden peanuts-cause-death thing no one told us about which as she's still alive appears to be a non-issue...AND she didn't eat like, ANY of the sandwich, grrrr, and I dealt with a bunch of laundry and I tidied the kitchen...and I watched a LOT of t.v. I had a very Friday day. Which is fine and dandy, 'cause it's Friday.

Tonight's game was good today, too. We won 4-2 (I would post if we lost, too, but we haven't since I started this thing...I PROMISE we lose sometimes, just not recently!) against the league like, coordinator guy - always satisfying to beat the team of the guy who has all the everything to stack his team. Oh if only he'd taken some of OUR players. At least when he yelled at our players he was just kidding, and we yelled our kiddingnesses back at him, so it was all good. LOTS of fun. And it looks like this year, for a change, we're actually going to get a team together for indoor which is OH so exciting! Usually everyone says they want to and then they all back out - but this time we're taking their money early, threatening not to give it back, and people are STILL chomping at the bit to play wit us, so I'm thinking it's going to work out - YAY!

TODAY:
45 minutes yogilates
1:20 soccer (I was off twice, figure in total that's 10 minutes off two 45 min halves.... I feel like I need to be uber thorough in my reporting to the cyber that is space)
Lots of lounging and T.V., but mixed with folding and putting away laundry, tidying that kitchen of mine, AND hanging out with the one and only Little Miss.
Wii Fit Measures (and NO, I didn't actually get up and weigh myself uber early as I threatened...these are from about 3:30 which is what time I get to it after Little Miss takes a 2pm nap instead of a noon nap):
Weight - 177.0 lbs
BMI - 28.45

BOOYAH!

Okay, just have to warn you, BUSY weekend loaded with family stuff starting tomorrow, so I'm going to do my darndest to be an active cat but I may not get to posting about it. So sad for all you lovely people out there who I know spend your whole days waiting for the evening to come so you can come and see what wonderful tales of my exercise I've written for you...but I think you'll get over it.

MUAH!

OH yeah! And I just remembered, I TOTALLY knocked this chick over on the other team tonight! It was a thing of beauty. She even had the audacity to have the same name as me and she was a super obnoxious player - hey, I'm not usually catty on the field but she was annoying - and then she was wide open with the ball so I ran at her, OBVIOUSLY with the intention to get the ball, and I think she thought she was tougher than me or something so she lost the ball and kinda' jumped at me or into me or whatever and she TOTALLY fell flat on her....yeah that. It was beautiful. The ref called me on it and everything! There's a serious sense of awesomeness and satisfaction after knocking someone over in sports. Why is that???

The Fates are against me

So the week started with a way-too-busy and sleep-deprived weekend and has been non-stop ever since. Before today I'd only managed 9 minutes of yogilates the whole week, and Mr. Man was SO nice last night to point out that TODAY is Thursday! WHERE did the whole week go?!?!

Yesterday was not a BAD day, but it was one of THOSE days, you know? All the LITTLE things went wrong. Like, I went to pay tuition expecting a huge line and paid $2.50 for and hour's parking and went and there was NO line, which was nice, but I was all done on campus in 15 minutes! Hello, where's my $2.50??? Stupid metre. Then I went to the bank machine in the grocery store to deposit a whack-load of cheques from my work over the weekend, put my card in the ATM and...nothing. The screen was completely blank. I DID get my card out, but no deposit. THEN Little Miss wouldn't take her nap 'till 2:30 (same today - what is WITH that child?? I TRY to be regular with her! GAH!) THEN I got a message about working last night and that maybe we wouldn't have to but oh-wait, had to JUST IN CASE people came, so couldn't get it done during the afternoon, so had to spend nap-time getting ready for work, which was fine. Then drove Little Miss to my pals' house so they could watch her 'till Mr. Man got home from work so I could go to work, and on the way there was a bicyclist right where I needed to turn right and a car on my bum...soooo I pulled FAR over to the right, BEHIND the cyclist so as not to cut him off and cause him to drive into the side of my car while still prepping for my right turn AND ever-so-considerately getting out of the way of the wonderful human being(s) in the vehicle behind me...AND they passed me, honked at me, and flipped me off. WHAT THE HECK?!?! OH and the best thing is that right before I left for work last night I got a shipment in of work stuff and the box is FULL of all the wrong stuff because apparently I mistyped the same thing THREE TIMES when ordering it. AND I need it by next Tuesday and it won't get here in time now.

Yup, it was one of THOSE days yesterday.

So I did NOT get out for a walk, a run, a jog, I did not get time to take my body test on my Wii Fit (it surprisingly didn't scold me today - it usually does. Maybe it thought it would go easy on me since I've just previously been scolded for missing three days over the weekend...yes, I'm a trooper).

TODAY...
has been better. Except the weird nap time thing. I do EVERYTHING I can to make Little Miss' days the same and last week we were all about noontime naps - you may have read about it: I LOVE NOONTIME NAPS!! THIS week....no idea. She's all over the place. Today she fell asleep drinking milk from a bottle at 2 and I put her down and she WOKE UP and stood up and was all HI-MOM!-I'm-SO-ready-to-play-now, so I picked her back up, did a round of the house hoping she'd doze back off, and she didn't. So I put her down and left her screams, and it took her 40 minutes to doze off and a good extra 20 to be completely out of it. INSANE! I'm going to have to wake her for dinner!!
I DID take the opportunity, finally, to get in 45 minutes yogilates
And this morning we went out for a run. Funny story about that - ran a little further today and thought I was going to die, and as I was JUST finishing my last strides of "running" my little old man friend from the other muddy muddy day, when I FIRST ran the whole path, was right there, fixing his car!! So Little Miss and I stopped to chat. EXCEPT I had JUST stopped running, and hadn't walked it off yet, so my poor little heart's beating twenty-trillion miles/minute and I honestly thought I was going to pass out. So here's Mr. Chat-It-Up going on about how he can't fix his car at his condo because it's not allowed and the only thing I'M thinking is, dude-I-hope-you-have-a-cell-phone-to-call-911-'cause-I'm-going-to-pass-out-and-you-can't-lift-me!! I hope I wasn't rude to him when I finally figured out something that at the time seemed a good way to get back to moving - I can't for the life of me remember what it was - and then Little Miss and I made our way SLOWLY back home. I honestly thought I was at least going to puke, if not collapse, let the stroller full of baby roll away from me into the dam-outflow in the river, and come to and wish I was dead.

Yup. It was a REALLY good run today. Note to self - they're serious when they recommend you take a few to "cool down" - remember to do that. ALWAYS.

Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 177.7
BMI - 28.56

Maybe tomorrow we'll see some progress...I'll get up SUPER early and weigh myself! hahaha

Yikes - Four Days

So I kinda' dropped off for a few days - Little Miss we think MUST be teething, which of course means I'm not getting any sleep AND it was a busy weekend anyway so regular exercise habits were completely thrown out the window. It was kind of sad. Wii Fit reprimanded me today, so no one else has to :P

Great weekend work-wise, though, in case you were all wondering. And today was on its way back to normal. Little Miss is still sleeping a bit funny, so like, NOT sleeping as much as she should, but Mr. Man and I seem to be working it out okay.

TODAY
Went for a run on the path. It was muddy today - lots of rain last night! But that's okay, just makes it fun to hop over puddles and push the stroller through and splash up my legs.... Yup, that's FUN.... My shoes were stark-white 'till I ran through the mud last week. OH well. Anyway, did THERE the whole path, and BACK...probably 3/4 of the path. I forgot to look at my watch, so can't report on that. Walked whatever I didn't run, and was out a little under an hour.
9 minutes yogilates (Little Miss woke up...didn't get it all done, obviously).
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight - 177.7 lbs
BMI - 28.56

Go CHIMPS

Okay, first off, what the HECK?! The coach for the other team tonight was SUCH a nice guy, then he got frustrated and yelled across the field at our best player, called her an idiot, swore so loud a spectator on the other side yelled back to "watch your language", and yeah, was just being ridiculous. Like, DUDE! It's ladies soccer! This stupid league doesn't even have PLAYOFFS for pity's sake - who CARES if you win or not?? Half the league have never played before and the rest of us have been playing forever! GET A GRIP!!

What a loser.

Now that THAT'S out - too bad he'll probably never read that, eh? GROW UP! - SO much fun tonight! Soccer is fun when we play well and we DO happen to have a team of pretty good players so when we play well we win. I really don't care all that much - as I said, there's no playoffs so it doesn't count for anything other than kicks and giggles - but it's a nice bonus. And tonight we won. We played AWESOME. We played a team of girls younger, thinner, faster, and we beat the PANTS off them! It was awesome. I played SO good...most of the time. hahaha Anyway, final score 6-3. HUZZAH!!

TODAY
45 min yogilates
2 45 min halves of soccer...one five minute rest sooo 1hr25min soccer. (Yeah, my poor old-lady back is KILLING me).
WiiFit Measures:
Weight - 177.7 lbs
BMI - 28.56

Yes, that's right. I weighed myself at the usual time and I magically lost that mysterious 2.6 lbs that was hanging around last night. CRAZY! I've always known my weight fluctuates all over the place, but that seems like a lot in a day. I should take the tests alternating, afternoons and nights, so we can see the progress yo-yo all over the place, eh? Back and forth, back and forth.... Wow, sometimes I think I amuse myself a little too much.

I need to take a shower.

I hate 5:30am

What a LOOOOOOOOONG day! Mr. Man accidentally woke up Little Miss this morning at 5:30 as he was finishing his getting-ready-for-work routine and he didn't have time to get her back to sleep because that's not PART of his routine sooooo Mommy Red to the rescue!! Finally got her to sleep around 7, but then it was too late for me to go back to sleep because Girlie was arriving at 7:45. AND not enough time to do yogilates to wake up because Girlie is often a few minutes early......

(There IS a point that actually relates to the subject of this blog...stick with me!)

THEN Little Miss DIDN'T TAKE A NAP AT ALL today!! She was up again by 8:15 and that was that! Not a WINK of sleep. So, needless to say, I didn't get anything done and I didn't exercise at my usual time, nor did I weigh myself at my usual time.

TODAY
45 minutes yogilates
20 minutes walking Girlie to and from day camp
Wii Fit measures:
Weight 180.3 lbs
BMI 28.98

That's right - 180.3 lbs!! I'm up 2.6 lbs from YESTERDAY!! I was so pleased to have lost 2.4 lbs since starting to keep track on Wii Fit I posted it as my status on Facebook and in a DAY I gained it ALL back!! What the HECK?!?!?! I was NOT bad today! Now I have to come up with something else to put for that stupid status thing - GAH!!

So I'm kinda' hoping that I'm just 2.6 lbs heavier EVERY day at 9:15 than 1:15!! Cross your fingers for me that Little Miss takes a NOON nap tomorrow and then we can test the theory. Otherwise I'm off food for good!!

(Kidding, duh.)

Body Mass Index Bunk

BMI has got to be one of the stupidest things - I don't know WHO dreamed it up, though I'm sure I could find out fairly easily - but OHMIGOSH what was he (I guess it could have been a she....though it seems difficult to believe a woman could be that out to lunch)ON?!

So BMI is supposed to be an indication of your...fat status? What would you call that, anyway? There are four categories: underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese, and your assignment into a category basically defines your level of health.

RIDICULOUS RIDICULOUS RIDICULOUS!! According to BMI most, probably all (the successful ones, anyway) body builders are obese. Football players are off the scale. World-class gymnasts are often classed unhealthily underweight. And on and on and on.....

Now, of course, I'm listing some seriously elite athlete types here. But the whole BMI sucks thing is actually true for a HUGE number of us regular types!! I, for example, have rather large legs, even underneath my femoral fat ;). My calves are hard as rock but I can't do up a pair of hooker boots without busting the zipper to save my soul. My BMI is less than two points from obese. What about a skinny person? It can work both ways - know any skinny skinny girls we all just hate 'cause they can eat whatever they want and still look killer in skinny-leg jeans? Have you ever seen them in shorts? Skinny skinny girls with serious cankles?? BMI may put them in the underweight or normal category, but if you were to actually look at the percentages of their lean body mass versus fat mass they'd be overweight.

How do you fix BMI? Somehow there needs to be a way to account for body composition. There's not with BMI as it stands. That's that.

Now, I'M recording my BMI for a bunch of reasons. One, it's Wii Fit's main measure. Two, I'm interested for my own sake to see just HOW thin I'd have to be to get myself into the "normal" category. Three, hoping that anyone who's stuck with it as a measure can see my regular-joe case of it being garbage and look for something better (ask your doctor for a body composition test - let me know if you want a list of what's out there!). AND there's a bunch of other reasons why I record it, but that's all I feel like inundating you with for today.

Sorry I haven't bothered to back up my claims with any scholarly anything - I'm feeling lazy at the moment. I can pull out the books, if you'd like verification, though - just leave a comment and let me know!!!

TODAY
Walked Girlie to day camp, walked to the path and I oh-so-can run the whole path and almost all the way back without stopping to talk to old people! (I wasn't being antisocial - there was no one on the trail this morning!) Soooo...walked for about 35 minutes and ran for 25.
45 minutes yogilates.

Wii Fit Measures:
Weight - 177.7 lbs
BMI - 28.56

I LOVE noontime naps!

Today was another wonderful day. Not so much with the overachieving, but Little Miss went for her nap at noon, stayed down 'till TWO and I got OH so much done!!

TODAY
Yogilates 45 minutes
Approx 30 minutes walking (walked Girlie to day camp, walked to the mail box down the street, took a short after-dinner walk with Little Miss & Mr. Man)
got TONNES of laundry done ;)

Wii Fit Measures:
Weight - 177.3 lbs
BMI - 28.49
Body composition? Yeah, that's where BMI is the STUPIDEST thing out there.

Muddy Paths and Old Men

I had SUCH a great day today. This week my friend is dropping her daughter off at my house WAY too early so I can walk her to day camp down the street and around the corner well after my friend is already off to work. Today was our first day. Girlie arrived about 15 minutes earlier than I expected, bombed me out of bed, but from there it was a great day. We (Little Miss and I) walked Girlie to Day camp for 9:00 and then we walked (I walked...Little Miss rode in her uber awesome B.O.B. stroller - EVERYONE should have one)to this awesome trail we know of and then I ran the trail there and back and then walked home. From there the day was just awesome. Got lots done, Little Miss took a nice long nap, erranding....GOOD day! hahaha

Anyway, and I've run this trail before, but never all the way to the end, and never EVER to the end and then started back. I'm thinking, though, that I made it so ridiculously far today because I kept bumping into chatty elderly exercisers out for their morning constitutionals. How FUN to stop and chat with the elderly and active!! I got comments on my super-duper stroller, my GORGEOUS wee baby, talked about the insane amount of mud on the path today, working for the local factory near where I live pre-retirement....So I got to talk to lots of people AND I ran further than ever today! I wonder if I can run that far pushing a stroller if I don't meet up with any chatty people so I can catch my breath on occasion...probably not....

TODAY
Walked approx 30 minutes
Ran (probably closer to a jog) approx 30 minutes
Chatted LOTS
Yogilates 45 minutes

Wii Fit measures
Weight: 178.4lbs
BMI: 28.66

Sabbath = Day of "Rest"

Nothing to report, today - it's Sunday. BUT of course, instead of resting I had my inlaws over for dinner so spent the day after church getting ready for that whirlwind (our neices are INSANE and adorable and we love them!).

Just wanted to leave a quick note, though, so you know I'm not actually slacking off - God TOLD me to rest today - and say THANKS: I've had a few people through comments, e-mail, facebook (those who know my super-secret identity, muahaha) respond to the blog with encouragement and I thought you should know I REALLY APPRECIATE IT! I'm only 5 days in, but I'm enjoying this so far, so let's keep our fingers crossed it keeps its appeal!

Anyway, thanks again, a zillion times. :) Looking forward to a long blogging relationship with anyone who is reading as I get rid of the doughnut...slowly...but surely! It WILL go!

Jelly Doughnut

So we finally found the camera!! YAY! I don't think I told you it was missing. Would you believe, it was hanging where it belongs in its case on a hook. Mr. Man and I both checked there multiple times and couldn't find it. Morons, occasionally. Good thing we're so lovable!!

Why does this discovery concern this little corner of the interweb?? I'm FINALLY able to take and post a darling picture of ME with my spare tire!!! I'd love to officially call this the "before" picture stage, but I guess before was really last Sept 7th, when the Little Miss made her debut. Actually, last September was AWESOME: I lost 35 lbs in a month! ;) MOST of it during labour. Yeah, I don't recommend that for the general public's weight loss....

Okay, so brace yourself, because here I am....TWICE, even!

Anyway, so that's where I'm at now. I'm an okay size, for sure, but I have some extra...fluff that HAS to go! Especially since I go to school with all the beautiful people - it's really difficult for a girl to be the chubby, frumpy, old-married-mother in all her physical education and kinesiology classes! I should have been a computer science major like Mr. Man - MUCH better for the self-esteem! ;) (No offense, computer genius people out there!! If it weren't for you guys, well, so much wouldn't be the way that it is, and I like how it is. So THANKS!)

Today, for exercising turned out to be a write-off, unfortunately. Little Miss went for a nap, but we were expecting Mimi & Grandpa (my ever-so incredibly wonderful parental units) at any time and I didn't want them to walk in and be greeted by my rear pointing up in "down dog"....turned out to be some miscommunication and I totally had time, which is unfortunate. NOW I don't - I need to get some sleep (also important for health and all that jazz I'm aiming for) and I have a couple things to do still sooooooo....

TODAY:
14min Wii Fit Yoga
Weight -179.7lbs
BMI - 28.88

And the BMI rant is still coming, I PROMISE. It's just been a busy day and I needed to get that out of my system first. One day when nothing happens to me I'll tell you why BMI is so stupid, and then also why I'm chosing to a) take a gander at it and b) post it. :)

Soccer Score

SO much fun, the game tonight. Helped a lot that we won 3-nil. AND that when I full on with both hands shoved the girl playing against me after taking her elbow in my face repeatedly every time the ball came towards us during the game the ref didn't see. OR he pretended he didn't see, 'cause we know he'd seen her pushing me around before. Anyway, it's incredibly satisfying to do something so not allowed in the rule book and get away with it. hahaha And now my life has turned to crime.... ;)

Soccer game - two 45 minute halves = 1hr30min playing time, with three 5 minute breaks for 1hr15min.

I think I'm going to take a break from this whole kicking my booty thing for the rest of the night. ;) Mr. Man rented two movies I want to see - HOORAY!

The ever-losing battle against adiposity.

Did you know that a baby is born with all of his/her muscle cells already formed and that those are IT?? You can work out ALL you want, you're NEVER going to build another muscle cell. We can increase the size of the cells, but never get more of them.

FAT cells, on the other hand, increase in both size AND number. And once you've increased the number of cells it's ridiculously difficult to get rid of them. Shrinking your fat cells is easier than actually getting rid of them.

Doesn't it seem like a bit of a cruel joke, this whole skinny thing, then? Like, we're all predestined to be fatties. Not that I believe in destiny. I'm literally trying to work my rear off fighting against my chubby fate!

Anyway, that hit me as something to meander in thought about yesterday after I finished yogilates (YAY!). It's driven me nuts since I learned it last semester in my human growth and development class - I'm on a mission to kill all extraneous fat cells, especially the scientifically-proven-to-be-hard-to-zap femoral fat (the celluliteish stuff we lovely ladies refer to as our thunder-thighs), just because I believe somewhere inside me that I can do it!!

TODAY (so far...)
Little Miss is ASLEEP!! Hooray!! (Angels are singing the hallelujia chorus......)
45 minutes yogilates
14 minutes "aerobics" on the Wii Fit (SO much fun - not sure how useful it's going to be to actually lose weight, but it's in the house for Mr. Man)
TONIGHT - soccer!!!

According to Wii Fit:
Weight - 179.5lbs
BMI - 28.84

I'll give you my whole little rant about BMI in another posting - one with a picture of me so you can see I'm not actually near as close to obese as that ridiculous measure would have you believe. I don't think many people would call me overweight, actually, but there you have it.

If we win the game tonight, I'll be sure to post about it 'cause it's OH so exciting and much more fun when we win! ;)

In the beginning...

Little Miss

So I'm a normal girl, I think. Well, with a few exceptions, but exceptions are actually normal, aren't they? Anyway, that's besides the point.

As with what seems to be most girls out there I have been struggling, at least mentally, with my weight forever. I'm not a big girl, but I need some work. I'm bigger than I was before I had the Little Miss, 11 months ago, today, actually. So, I know I had a baby less than a year ago, but I'll only be able to say that for another month. What, really, is the hold up?

Actually, I'm finding it incredibly difficult to balance everything I'm trying to do in my life such that I can exercise regularly. I was good to go before Little Miss, but SHE'S so active I find I spend all my time chasing her around and I don't find time to clean the house AND exercise.

Anyway, I was working on some business stuff on the computer today and found myself surfing away from topic to my friend's blog where she's posted some of her exercise accomplishments, and I, being a lemming, thought it was a GENIUS idea to blog about my exercise pursuits in the hopes that I will stick with something out of a sense of obligation to anyone who may be unfortunate enough to be reading this rambling on and on and on of mine. SO, that said, here we go:

TODAY
I got a whopping 5 minutes in on our WiiFit. I had intended to play around the aerobics section for 5-10 minutes to warm up before getting into my new favourite thing, yogilates, but Little Miss cut her nap short by an hour and fifteen minutes sooooo I have yet to do yogilates. I'm planning on doing that before I head to bed, though. SOOO wonderful, and relaxing. I'm currently addicted. Took away some serious back pain I was experiencing that was hindering my running inclination from becoming a habit, and made Friday night soccer quite painful, actually.