Cheat Day

Do you have them? I do. I had one yesterday. I think that the occasional cheat days are good for you....psychologically as well as good for your overall diet. But they do just have to be occasional.

We celebrated Father's Day yesterday, because we figured places would be somewhat less crowded on a Saturday afternoon than they would be on a Sunday afternoon. We let my hubby decide where he wanted to go for lunch and he chose a BBQ place. I didn't do *too* badly there, ate a few fries off of the appetizer platter, got ribs, baked potato and cinnamon apples. I did break down and get a sweet tea though, as opposed to my typical water and lemon. But that meal, although not great for me, wasn't really a scale buster, I still was within my calories for the day eating that meal. After lunch, came home and did my kettlebell workout, so go me!!!

The rest of the day is where it got dicey. We had plans to go to the drive in movies that night. Well, we approach the drive in and it starts to rain, so we looked up another movie and see that we have about 40 minutes to kill. That's when we see a buffet joint, and decide to go in and eat prior to the movie. UGH. I didn't eat a lot there, but the food was greasy and just didn't really appeal to me. I did have a nice salad and fruit though. So even that place didn't do a lot of damage for me. And I did get water...wooot wooot!!!

We get to the theater, purchase our tickets and go sit down. That's when hubby asks if I wanted to get popcorn. Well, the smell of movie theater popcorn overcomes me and me and my daughter come back a few moments later with popcorn and pop for all. Yeah I succumbed and got popcorn and pop for all. I didn't eat *too* much popcorn but did get a cherry coke for myself.

But I figure, it's a day that comes around only once a year, we don't really have anything looming on the horizon for a few weeks until 4th of July. And now, I got all of that out of my system. Can focus on good eating and exercise.

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Wow, that's a workout that you feel.

So I decided to shake stuff up a little. I have a bunch of workout dvds but get bored with them after awhile, so to switch it up a little, I bought a kettlebell workout set. Came with a 3-lb and 5-lb kettlebell and a dvd. The dvd is divided into a warm-up and 4 separate workouts, each approx 20 minutes; there is an all over fat burning segment, an abs segment, lower body and upper body. Tues I did the upper body and boy did I feel it yesterday!! Took yesterday off and this morning I did the lower body workout. Am hoping after dinner to get the fat burning workout in. I will do kettlebells 4 times a week and my stationary bike 3 days a week. Well thats the plan at least.

Foodwise I am doing pretty good, bought a bunch of chicken, veggies and fresh fruit. But my main focus as of now is on my workout. If I can get going consistently with exercise, I am sure food will naturally fall into place.

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Getting back on the horse.....for the millionth time

Once again I have come to the place where I am sick and tired of my (lack of) exercise routine. I do so well for such a while, lose weight, get a ton of positive feedback.....and sit back on my laurels. I am so far away from what I know that I can accomplish. And as I have stated before, I am the queen of excuses. Work, school, kids, husband, taking care of my home. Yeah, so what??!!! I know plenty of other people who tackle all that I do (and some of whom do not have the support of family or a spouse). So if they can do it, why not me??

I think part of the reason I sit back so often is because I never had to work hard at being "skinny" while growing up. Growing up I was nicknamed Olyve Oyle (yes, as in the Popeye heroine) due to my skinniness and long legs and arms. I could eat anything and not have to work out. And I got used to it.

But in my mid to late 20's, my metabolism started to turn on me. I slowly started putting on weight, maybe 5 lbs a year or so. That slow weight gain that you don't really notice until your favorite pair of pants no longer fits quite right. And then I had my "baby" (who will be 10 in December). After her, the weight that had slowly acumilated just wasn't going ANYWHERE.

So over the past several years I have yo-yo'd. I cant begin to tell you the number of times that I have gained and lost the same 5-10 lbs.

But I have a goal. I turn the big 4-0 in September. I want to be in the best shape of my life. Yes, while I may have been skinny growing up, I was nowhere near being fit and healthy. I want the nice shape of having toned muscles and I want my insides to be as healthy as my outside!!!

So once again I am going to embark on a healthy lifestyle. Now to make it last!!!!