Get Active!

I am a gamer. I love to play games. I am lazy. I hate to work out. When you can combine something you love with something you hate, good things can come about :)

Yes, I caved. I have been wanting this since I heard about it months ago but was hesitant.

So there was a tax free sale at Superstore and we had nearly $100 worth of PC points to use so basically it only cost us $10 using $60 worth of PC points, whoo hoo!!

Problem number one. I am very heavy thighed. I mentioned I hate having my legs covered with fabric and this is one of the reasons. My upper thighs are insanely huge; well I've seen bigger at my weight but for me they are out of proportion. I tinkered around and could not find a good solution. Sure enough they have an addition to make it smaller, but not bigger. Sigh. Finally I figured out a way to pin it into my pocket and that worked. Not perfect but good enough :)

So I got my profile going and I am now part of the 30 day challenge :). Whether I want to or not, I'm exercising! And it was a lot challenging than I thought. I was sweating minutes into it. I was impressed that it only took 22 minutes and most of that was watching the videos and tinkering with the darn nunchuck. I was really sweating but feeling energized at the end of it. I think this is something I won't mind doing daily. Plus you can customize workouts so I can do an extra one in for an added boost.

Oh yeah, I love it! The kids love it too. Mark keeps saying he wants to start working out and now he has something he can use to help him (if he wants to, that is).

So I did a lot better today in general. I was up at 3:30am, cleaning the house and gathered up a carload of stuff to drop off, then I cleaned for an hour in the basement, picked up all the junk around the back steps and set up my gardening table. I want to spend more time outside this summer. Then I ran errand and by 11am, I hit the wall. I was so tired I thought I would fall asleep driving. I didn't get enough sleep and I felt so pumped and full of energy that I totally crashed.

I did well low carbing all day. When I dropped the stuff off at 5am I was going to cheat and get breakfast at McDonalds but I just got a large diet coke (only a buck, whoo hoo! Of course that's probably why I crashed when I did, duh!). I had eggs for breakfast, steak and red pepper slices for lunch and pork roast with mashed cauliflower, green beans and broccoli for supper. I snacked on some pepperoni sticks and cheese and more red pepper (so good!). And I exercised burning over 200 calories :)

I'm feeling a little better like maybe I can do this. I just need to buck up and stick with it. I need to work out my problems with exercise instead of food.