Tuesdays are great.  Tuesdays are my usual day off from work, and I love having the house to myself all day!  Sometimes I revel in being uber-lazy (some days just call for a cozy blanket, a good book and a cat on your lap), but mostly I try to use Tuesdays for catching up on all the stuff that gets ignored the rest of the week, like laundry!  I just put my second load in the washer and folded the two baskets of clean (which said cat is no doubt sleeping on right now, since I refuse to settle on the couch where I belong ).

I also rode my horse this morning, and at 1:00 (yikes, 15 minutes!) I have to be at DD's school to volunteer in her classroom.  After that, it's more laundry and tackling the mess in my office.  Oh, joy! I'm downsizing from a desk like this (which is currently buried two feet deep in STUFF, most of which I don't even know why I still have it) to one like this (which will remain CLOSED, and therefore all the stuff contained, 99% of the time. In theory).  

Oops, better scoot - it's almost time for me to leave and I still have to find my shoes and dig out my good winter coat!

Fiona

so many diets...so little time...

Last summer I lost ~40 pounds following Body For Life (BFL).  (Actually, I'm going to be honest, I don't consider that a "real" loss because it was pretty much all postpartum weight. A good thing, yes, but I still had/have a long way to go to be at a healthy weight.)  Anyway, in 12 weeks BFL got me back to my pre-pregnancy weight and a few more, which was awesome.  But even more important than the weight loss were the health benefits I experienced.  For the first time in I don't know how many years, I could climb a flight of stairs without getting out of breath.  On our family vacation, I actually looked forward to the 1/2 mile walk along the lake from our condo to the "good" pool, instead of wishing I could think of an excuse to drive over.  I discovered I LOVE strength training! When I look at all the positives, it seems natural that I should continue something that worked great for me before.

But...

There is a group of women on a message board that I frequent, who are all doing Michael Thurmond's 6 Week Body Makeover (6WBMO) and having results that are, quite frankly, astonishing.  Literally mind blowing. Which means it's tempting, even though when I look at the restrictions the plan puts on your food choices (no dairy, wheat, oils, added sugar or salt, among other rules), I don't think this isn't a plan I could live with long term...or possibly even short term.  OTOH, these gals say they don't feel the slightest bit deprived, and the plan offers the one thing I wish BFL offered - in-depth menu planning and meal structuring.

I'm definitely not going to pay full price ($130+shipping, ouch!!! ) for a program I'm not 100% sold on (after the LA Weight Loss fiasco - save that for another post - I wouldn't spend that kind of money on ANY plan, really), but if a steal of a deal comes up on ebay or craigslist, I might just snag a copy and see what useful ideas and recipes I can incorporate into my BFL lifestyle. 

Fiona

 My 29th birthday is exactly 100 days from today!

On my birthday, I will be in Onederland. I will make it happen!

Fiona

(act like you've been here all along...act like you've been here all along...)

Guess what DH and I snagged on Tuesday?  A Wii Fit!!!    I love this thing already - it actually makes exercising slightly like a game.  Not that I don't enjoy a good sweatfest of the more traditional variety, but kicking DH's butt at the HulaHoop contest is just so much FUN!

I'm shooting for 30 minutes, 5 days a week in addition to my regular BFL-style HIIT and strength training workouts.

Fiona