WiiFit Friday update # 4

I feel like I don't have much to report. I've been doing my WiiFit some days... other days not. I have the standard excuses. Too busy. Sick family. Had company. But I know that even when all these things are going on, I could be working harder at this. But I'm not. I hate that.

But anyway..here's the rundown:

Friday - no. I had a hundred and one things going on that day.

Saturday - yes, but only 25 minutes.

Wednesday - yes. 30 minutes. Woo hoo! But the last couple of minutes were me doing Lotus Focus.. which I basically did so I could sit down. So I don't see that counting for much! I also had my legs folded on the floor. I'm not flexy enough to get them up on the board with me. Maybe when I was 12.. but not now!

Thursday - yes! I did 30 minutes in the evening. It isn't my favorite time of the day to do it, but I was glad I at least did it. Did a little bit of yoga. Not my thing, but I will continue to try it.

I devoted an entire post to eating. It hasn't been pretty. Check it out here. I don't plan on spending an enormous amount of time discussing numbers or every morsel of food I ate. Or many if any more whole posts devoted to dieting..that's not my main focus as a blogger (not that I know what my main focus really is sometimes... anyhooo...) But my point in sharing at all is that I need to get rid of my middle, where most of the extra lbs are. I am trying not to be fixated on numbers or sizes, BUT obviously those correlate with getting to where I want to be. A flatter middle so I am at less risk for disease.

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a weighty topic

I've been doing this WiiFit carnival thing on Fridays. It's a good thing. It's keeping me motivated to get on the WiiFit when I would rather not. This hasn't been a great week for that, but this post isn't really about the working out part.

It's about the eating part.

The thing I've been stinking up at lately.

In the past when I would talk to most people about my need to lose weight, they would mostly just ask 'why?'. And then I would laugh and go into 'it'. When my hubby and I married, I weighed a hundred pounds. That's all. At 5 feet, 2 inches, I was pretty much skin and bones. I've gotten past the skin and bones stage. Well, my middle has. My arms and legs are still fairly slender. Otherwise known as an apple shape. And if you've ever read much about this or watched Dr Oz or anything like that, you'll know that the apple shape is the worst because the fat is concentrated around the middle. And belly fat is largely responsible for diseases like diabetes. Both my parents had/have it.

So having said all of that... I am having the worst time with the eating part of this WiiFit thing. I can blog all day about how good or bad I've been at exercising. But my eating is out of control. And since I'm not blogging my weight, I don't get much accountability built in. So! I'm thinking about blogging my actual weight weekly as a deterrent to eating everything in sight (like I did yesterday).

Some people refer to it as the weather report to catalog their numbers, but I'm thinking about just putting my weight down every Friday when I do the WiiFit update. I'm thinking I will weigh every Friday in the morning after breakfast, since that's when I tend to do my update. And it's right about that time today.

So today's number is.... 140.5. My goal is to lose at least 15 lbs. It puts my middle in better proportion with the rest of my body and reduces my risk for other things as well. So it's not always about the number itself, but the info behind that number.

I'll usually try to document these on Fridays, but today I just wanted to get that off my chest, so to speak, so it doesn't take up all of Friday's post.

beyond sad today

I don't have much going on right now. Sometimes when I have something on my mind and heart it keeps me from thinking or writing about anything else. I've been like that the past few days. I follow Angie from Bring the Rain on Twitter and she tweeted... (oh how cool does that make me sound??? And that question is followed quickly by did I say that right???)...anyway, she tweeted about a family who's baby daughter was just diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the very end of January and she is already in heaven. I just can't shake that. I don't think God would want me to either. I am beyond sad for this family.

We've walked in the same shoes, and yet I can't imagine losing the battle so fast! We were still just getting started on our fight at 2 or 3 weeks in... and theirs is already over. I can't fathom that.

I pray that God would show Himself real to them.. as comforter and as sustainer. I know He will. Please pray for Cora's mommy and daddy and family. Her funeral is today.

100 things list, revised

A few days ago I was visiting Jill's Blog and she had done a meme and it was a list of a 100 things, and she was supposed to make bold the things she had done. I thought it was pretty cool, but then it sort of left me empty because there are stories behind those bold sentences.

So! I got an idea. I thought I would take down some of the ones that sounded like they would make interesting stories or snippets or whatever and go with it. To see the whole list, click here. But this is my shortened list with some chit chat or a story or two thrown in.

Anyhoo... I think I will refer to them by their number on the original list, so if I jump from #2 to #7, you haven't missed anything. LOL

The first one was start a blog. Well..tada! I've done that. I'm not certain of all God's purposes for me to have a blog yet.. but I am excited that I can meet some new ladies and hopefully share a little bit of what God has done and is doing as I write. And of course, some silly stuff along the way, just for fun. : )

#2. Sleep under the stars. We camped a lot when I was growing up. We could not have afforded to go on vacations had we not had a camper. I have pleasant memories of camping in all climates... from hot roll down the window flap weather, to dressing under the covers cold weather. So if that counts as under the stars, then yes I have!

#7. Been to Disneyland. I went to Disneyland in 1984, I believe. We had a wonderful time. And yes we camped near San Bernadino. Crazy, huh?! I remember being so excited to be in the actual park that Walt Disney himself created and walked around in. I was star struck without him even being there.

#18. Grown my own veggies. I've made several attempts at growing tomatoes since we've lived in this house. I looooove home grown tomatoes. I've seen those hanging things and think every year I'm going to order one and grow some tomatoes upside down!

#24. Built a snow fort. Even though I live in Texas, we have gotten some decent snows throughout my life. I used to have a playmate across the street from me and we'd play out in the snow for hours, building everything we could think of.

#34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors. I'm going to take some liberties on this one. I remember once when visiting an older relative, we drove way out in the country (in Arkansas) and the house she lived in as a young married lady was still standing! I've seen pics of me playing at this same house when I was around 2. It was interesting listening to the older gens discussing everything from rocking chairs to where the cat used to lay on the porch. : )

#42. Seen Old Faithful erupt. I was very young. So young that our vacation pics were slides..remember the days??? We have a pic of my dad, who had been dying to see Old Faithful, staring at an airplane while it erupted. Cracked us up!

#49. Seen the Sistene Chapel. I'm going to take liberties with this one too. When the hubs and I were dating, we visited The Precious Moments Chapel. At the time, Sam Butcher was still working on it. We were never privileged to be there when he was actually working, but we could always see work in progress through the years as we revisited it. And the work he's done is magnificent. Sadly the first time we visited the chapel, our tour guide told us that his son had just been killed in an auto accident. He later painted a small prayer room dedicated to the memory of his son. That room makes me cry every time we visit.

#54. Gone to a drive-in movie. Several. Most notably I went to see the very first Star Wars movie at a drive-in in Podunk, Texas.

#69. Saved a favorite childhood toy. Yes! One in particular comes to mind. I had this very odd toy that looked sort of like a small mouse and it had this fake fur stuff on it. It was cute then, but it's sort of yucky looking now. Makes me wonder if the fur wasn't so fake. LOL I had one, as did my cousin, and we played for hours on end with our 'mousies'.

#77. Broken a bone. Yep! I walked right off a step at the vet's office and found myself sitting down in tremendous pain. This was on Good Friday of 2005. The doctor didn't think it was broken and that it should heal. It didn't. By the time I got in to a specialist and got a CT of it, it was almost summer. I got my cast on the day before school let out. I spent 8 weeks in a cast. I had a tricked out ride though. I could go pretty fast. Wheeee! And several more weeks in a boot. The rest of the summer and part of the fall in physical therapy and I chaperoned a field trip with my newly minted foot in September a few days after I finished PT.

#79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person. Yes! On the tail end of the Disneyland trip. I loved the Grand Canyon more than all the other things we did on that trip, COMBINED...well..except for Disney. lol

#85. Read the entire Bible. Yes. But it took me 3 years. But that is ok!

#88. Had chicken pox. I had them in the 5th grade. One of the only times my grandparents stayed at our house. We usually visited them. They gave me a set of playing cards with puppies on them and you'da thought they gave me a million dollars. Simple things.

#91. Met someone famous. Yes. On the same trip with Disneyland and the Grand Canyon, my dad wanted to visit Roy Rogers' museum. And being the huffy, attitudinal teenager that I was, I dreaded that day. Boring old people stuff. But as we walked around I began to have great respect for this man and the amazing life he had led. And the faithful, outspoken Christian life he'd led as well. Pretty cool. And next thing you know, there he was. He used to regularly visit the museum and greet the guests. So it turned into a pretty cool day, interestingly.

#99. Been stung by a bee. More than once, but a funny one was at McDonalds. I got stung on the hand as I was walking in one time. I panicked because the stinger stayed in. I finally found someone to help me get it out. LOL (I wasn't a mother back then and didn't have a clue what to do!)

#100. Read a book in one day. I've done this several times. But the most recent time was when I read Paula Deen's biography. Interesting read. Not for the kiddies though. Wow!

So there you have it... a sort of 100 list. Thanks Jill for the idea! I just messed it up some and had some fun with it.

WiiFit Friday update #3

In some ways, I feel like I don't have much to share. It hasn't been the best week ever around here. I would have felt bad telling my sick daughter that she couldn't watch tv so I could jump around and make a fool of myself exercise. And I was pretty wiped out from taking care of her, too.

Anyway..here's the rundown:

Friday: yes 30 minutes

Saturday: Yes 30 minutes. I did lunges and boxing - both for the first time. Will take me a bit to get used to the boxing thing. I'm not exactly coordinated. The lunges made my legs pretty sore, so that's a good thing. I felt like I could have gone longer than 30 minutes, which is also a good thing, but I had to do something else.

Monday: no It was a crazy day and I never stopped long enough to do it.

Tuesday and Wednesday: sick kid. 'Nuff said.

Thursday: Yes. It was a crazy day, and I got interrupted more than once. The first time, I barely got the machine going and the phone rang. And then towards the end of my 30 minutes and during a run, the doorbell rang. Something about the plumber and water gushing outside bla bla bla. Whatever. My Mii was waiting on me to finish my run when I got back in the house. : )

About eating: I have been eating like there is no tomorrow and that drives me nuts. There are times in my life when I've been 'working out' that I haven't wanted to woof down everything that's not nailed down. Having a little trouble with that right now. Having said that, I went from normal weight to overweight between Saturday and Thursday. Bummer. But on the flip side... the scale on this thing is wonky, in my opinion.

I am still trying to work on some sort of routine. Having different things to concentrate on each day etc. Haven't sat down with it to figure out a good system yet. As I was peeling myself off the floor the other day after doing jack knifes, it congratulated me on doing so well and unlocked more reps. I 'bout threw up just thinking about that. But then it hit me (duh).. 'back in the day' when I used to work out, I didn't do 30 or 40 of something at one stretch. I did SETS. So I think I'm going to start trying to apply what I used to do in resistance training to this and do shorter reps and more sets. Might keep me from tossing my cookies when I do jack knifes! LOL

Another question... doing the tricep work.. I can't remember what those are called.. you hold just under your elbow and then bend the other arm back holding the wiimote. I get that.. but then the trainer chick says that if you get good at doing that, you can increase the weight by holding a water bottle etc.. just exactly how am I supposed to hold a wiimote AND a water bottle. Because it is actully keeping track of the ups and downs of that hand. If it weren't keeping track, I could understand the water bottle comment, but since it does.. I'm a little stumped. Any ideas? This one seems like a waste of time to me. I need weight. I might skip using the Fit for this and use my resistance bands instead. Dunno. It just feels like a lame movement with no weight. But that's just my opinion.

I'm thankful to be able to link up with others, because without it I would have quit a long time ago. And knowing I would be posting on Friday and I told people I was gonna do it has made me step on when I would rather be lazy. So I'm so thankful for this. I just need to stop eating so much and get a move on.

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observations and a 'why'

Today is a quiet day. She's over the worst of being sick and just trying to get back into the eating groove and get her strength back. It's amazing what just one day of being sick can do to a girl. And she's such a thin little thing anyway, so she just looks gaunt very quickly to me when she's sick. I hate that.

So today is all about observations.

Homework isn't any fun when you'd rather just lay around and try to start feeling better. Of course homework isn't fun on any day. But you know what I mean. Not feeling bad enough just to lay around, but not totally with it either. This is where we are today.

And yesterday was a 'kid tv' watching sort of day. Oh joy.

She watches iCarly sometimes on Nickelodeon. It's not my faaaavorite show, but other than benign humor and corny put down sort of stuff, I haven't ever seen anything baaaaad. I guess I haven't been listening hard enough. I caught parts of two episodes yesterday when I wasn't busy taking care of her.

And it made me very sad. I know that I 'know' tv isn't the best and I 'know' I should be more on the alert for trash, but sometimes the reality of it takes me by surprise. I guess that's where I was yesterday.

I won't bore you with plot lines here...because face it.. there isn't much to speak of LOL... and because it's not that important. But I will attempt to discuss a couple of the alarming things I heard/felt while she watched. One of them was about a boy that had never been kissed. A girl mentioned to others that he had not been kissed and he got laughed at at school. Finally the girl goes to the boy and tells him she's never been kissed either. They proceed to kiss, even though they dislike each other and cut each other down in every episode. That just made me sad. Affection and something that perhaps could be shared only with one true love was thrown around like it was brushing up against someone's coat on accident or something. It really disturbed me. And the other weird thing was a thing where, Carly, the girl in the show, is trying to give out prizes or something and mentions this list of strange things but included in the list is a picture of a man that get's pregnant. Hmmm... snatched that one right out of the headlines. I just about died. Boo caught that one too and made a comment that it was a pretty nasty thing to say. But I just kept thinking...why??? Why did they have to say that rather than something else that was just plain ol' silly?

I tend to forget that there is an enemy that is out to get her soul.

It made me wonder.... what else has she heard in that show that I've missed. I haven't sat down and watched every episode of this show with her like I did with Hannah Montana.

Maybe I should.

because she's sleeping

I can sit and type a post now because she's sleeping. My girl is sick today.

And I had to get out 'the buckets'. I hate the buckets. They represent a lot.

I feel weird when she's sick and it's just one of those things. It's so minor in the grand scheme of things.

But it can evoke some pretty powerful feelings.

So that's my day. Helping her when she needs it. Putting her hair in a ponytail for her and covering her while she sleeps on the couch. Jumping if she moves. Washing her face for her 'after'.

Poor girl. She feels so bad. She's growing up, but then on a day like today, she's still so small and vulnerable. My baby.

I hope I don't catch it. : p