I was home alone, no one expected...I was wearing comfortable exercise clothes. I snuck ( is that a word?) down the hallway to the seldom used bathroom. There, hidden behind the shower curtain was my coresecrets exercise ball. I can't think of another place to put it in this small house. :) I wrestled it out of the tub, down the hallway and into the living room. I placed it on my exercise mat on top of the wooden floor. I was doing great...grunting and groaning along with the AB Assault video...
They make it look so easy!! No one on the video had the ball go shooting out from under their behinds when trying to do crunches from the side. No one on the video had to get up and chase their ball across the room after using one foot to hold the ball and pull it closer while doing side crunches. ( I think I pulled to hard and caused it to POP out from under my foot) Most certainly no one else had their ball go bouncing merrily down the hallway when doing some contortionist move that consisted of lying on the back and picking the ginormous ball up with your feet and placing it in the hands then lying straight back with the hands (and ball ) behind their head. What monkey made up that move anyway?? The workout definately works, this morning I was so sore I could barely sit up in bed. I'm sure it was from the workout, well almost. It could have been from the part of the video where he says "walk the ball back and lie with the top half of your body on the ball." Yeah, right. Hey Gunner, a word to the wise, you might want to tell the public that they should not attempt that move unless wearing some non skid shoes. Also might want to add the word SLOWLY in that phrase also. Because going backwards seems to build a lot of momentum and doing so while wearing socks, is a recipe for disaster. I didn't know a fat girl could fly, but I swear I went around with the ball and it spit me out about 5 feet away from where I left the surface of the ball. I remember looking under the couch in a daze wondering all sorts of weird things like: How'd I end up on my stomach, why is there a corner of a sandwich under here, and do dust bunnies multiply like real bunnies? I think I might have a slight concussion from my experience but thrill seeker that I am, I'm going to try again tomorrow.
I got off my flat ass(yes I ment to say flat with an l) and went walking today, while ds was at all-star practice. (Yep he made it !) I refuse to spend any more money on fatting food at the concession stand so instead I went walking around the ballfield and only stopped to buy a water. So I walked 3 miles and drank 2 bottles of water. 2 big for me. The best thing is we are practicing 5 nights a week for 3 weeks. I should really be in the habit by then...
Tomorrow the exercise ball and I'm going to get ds up to work out with me, that should be interesting.
Hah!! I have found a new home and a way to save money. I love it at extrapounds.com:)
Saving money is a big thing in my life right now! I have canceled my online Weight Watchers Membership, or I will as soon as I remember my stinkin' password. They are emailing it to me even as I type.
I didn't used to be such a tightwad but I've had to rethink a lot of things in the last 3 years. When my ex, always referred to now as 'The Troll' ,had his midlife crisis I had to find a way to return to school, keep this house, and keep my son involved in all the things he loved. Thus budget cuts,(and a damn good lawyer!!)
When people ask how I'm losing so much weight I want to tell them "Duh, can't afford to eat!"
I was searching the activity section to see how to post Pilates. I have been doing the core secrets workout and need to record it so I will motivate myself to do it. I found mowing the lawn, boy that burns lots of calories! I may have to forget about fixing the riding lawn mower. Although I have an acre and the temps are going to start hitting the mid 90s this week.
I was diappointed however to see how few calories Sexual Activity burns. Don't look!!! I promise you will be disappointed. I wonder who they surveyed to arrive at this number? Was it a man? Did they purposely set it low so they could ...umm.... participate more often. Was it a disgruntled wife married to a troll like my ex who knows that no matter how much he'd like to call it an activity, it's not going to last long enough to build a sweat?? I mean it's measured in number of calories burned per hour. Uh really if your doing it right only 140 something for an hour?? Are you sure about that? I mean you could burn more calories than that watching tv for an hour... come on...
ETA of course it's been a long time so I may be overestimating the effort expended.
how can I lose weight if I'm always at the ballpark?
How the heck can I lose weight if I'm at the ballpark every night from 5:30 to 10?? I can eat there of course, either a hamburger, hotdog or nachos..wash them down with a diet moutain dew...if I am really hungry I can add either a order of fries or cheese sticks...ugh.... They did add chicken sandwiches... I'm sick of those after 3 or 4 days a week times 6 weeks. I hope it ends soon, if my son makes allstars I might gain back the orginal 80 something pounds some.
My name is Leah. I am the divorced mom of a 10 year old boy named Stone.
I was recently told by several friends that I needed to find something to do that didn't involve or wasn't about Stone. Yeah, right! Like I have extra time for that. So this is supposed to be about me and my crazy life. Wierd stuff and people just happen to me. I don't go looking for them, I swear, but they find me.
