September 22, 2013~~ Day 7 of the 28 day challenge

Well...  we started the 7th day of the 28 day diet bet and we're doing fantastic.  Of the 7.3 lbs I'm supposed to lose, I have 1.9 lbs to go.  Curt has another 3 or so lbs to go on his 12.7 lbs.  Its amazing how sticking to the diet and no alcohol works!

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013~ Day 1 of the 28 day challenge

So here is what we're doing.  Since we can't seemed to find anything to get us motivated, I had to go searching.  And I think I found just what we needed to get us moving!  I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but I found out through another blog about a website called www.dietbetter.com, but the part we like it the diet bet.  You bet anywhere from $10 to $500 that in 28 days you can lose 4% of your body weight.  If you do, you split the pot between everyone else who also loses their 4%.  For me, that is about 8 lbs.  For Curt its about 13 lbs.  So we found one that suits us and bet $30 each.  Right now, there is $19,000+ in the pot so this could be fun. Now that we have money on it, we have to do it, right??  Today is day one.  We could have been doing it already but it was a no kids weekend, so we ate a little bad and drank a little beer and watched a whole lot of football. 

So goals:
STICK TO THE DAMN DIET!
EXERCISE DAILY, time permitting!
NO MORE ALCOHOL


Here's what we ate:
Breakfast:
C: coffee (shame on him....)
J: key lime pie yogurt, til I realized it was not Dukan friendly!

Lunch:
C: cheese, chicken wings, jalapeno sausage
J: buffalo chicken

Dinner:
C and J: meatloaf

Beverages:
C: ?
J: ?

Exercise:
Not gonna happen today.  I'm fighting off a lovely cold, but can't my life in general count as exercise?  I'm wrapping up several huge orders and I think by the time that my day is over, I've have more than 20 packages going out and one of those has 23 things in it!  Not to mention, I'm babysitting 2 toddlers today, I have a juggle around a DirecTV guy in there and somehow get out to Ethan's school and get him picked up at 3:30 and amazingly get him out to a court ordered alcohol class that is ridiculous to begin with... And then back home to eat real quick and get everyone moving on homework and get Berlyn to a school performance at 6:30.  I'm not even putting in here the part where Curt had to take off an hour early so someone can be here with my niece and nephew that I babysit til my brother gets here to pick them up and then kids need to be picked up from volleyball and play practice and get all those package down to the post office.  Sigh....  welcome to my life.

Monday, Sept 2, 2013

Well, I've picked up working out again.  Walking mostly, but at least its something.  Curt and I hiked 3.2 miles up to the top of Table Rock in Boise on Friday morning to see the annual hot air balloon launch.  It was amazing!  And the climb up was really hard on Curt.  The climb down was awful for me.  My knee just can't stand that kind of manipulation.  It hurt til the middle of Saturday. I'm going to try to post pictures of that in a few days.  This morning I woke before Curt so I creeped out of the house and went for a 3 mile walk/ jog.  My ankle is doing much better.  It's a little stiff in the morning but as far as working out, it feels pretty good.  I have reached 10 lbs. lost, with my lowest weight so far this morning.  Curt, weirdly, keeps going up drastically and down a little.  This morning his total loss is 7 lbs.  I think he's starting to feel a little down about it.  We're going to try to get exercise in for him too.  His work schedule makes it hard, but he's going to just have to do it.