My sister Lacy's gentle prompting ("Dude, you're all way too disgustingly fat!") has led our family to participate in a "Biggest Loser" competition for the next four weeks. $10 to buy in (we're a very cheap family . . . several of my siblings were considering sitting this one out because of the 'steep' entry fee . . . I think my Mom was scouring the newspaper for a "Buy One Get One Free" coupon, but to no avail.)
This means I woke up this morning and weighed in first thing (before peeing, of course). Then the girls and I headed downstairs and I did 15 minutes of Tae Bo . . . I would've done more, as I was just pleasantly feeling the burn, but me doing 15 minutes of exercise means Ellie had been screaming non-stop for about 14 and a half minutes. Maybe I'll attempt something during her nap.
Annie and I then ate a typical breakfast of oatmeal and yogurt (well, typical for her, I tend to skip breakfast or grab a granola bar around 10AM . . . no wonder I need to do this!) Then I came up and blogged. If only blogging burnt more calories! Maybe I could get a Thigh Master or some other convenient sitting exercise type apparatus . . . 'cause I bet those are ridiculously effective! ;-)
Anyway, do me a favor, anyone who runs into one of any of my family . . . feel free to feed them a doughnut. Do enough damage and I might split the winnings with you!
Edited to add: I was sitting on my office chair playing with Ellie, when she suddenly threw her little self out of my arms and landed on her head on the carpet below us. I'm pretty sure my heart stopped. She began screaming, I dived to the floor next to her, trying to soothe her while not picking her up for a few seconds to make sure her neck worked and all. I held her for a minute or two until she started to settle down. It was pretty quick from screaming to complete calm, so I'm assuming she's fine. I immediately called my Mom ('cause that's what one does in such a situation, "Please assure me you dropped each of us on our heads at least once and we all turned out relatively okay!"), and she gave me the typical 'concussion check list' advice. Then said, "Well, it's nice Ellie never naps for longer than 30 minutes, you won't have to wake her up during her nap to check on her!" Always seeing the bright side.
Oh, and Annie just ran from the room crying out, "I have to pee!!!!" There's a giant puddle on my bedroom carpet, so I'm thinking she was a little late on that. Sigh. Good times. I have to go get the carpet shampooer . . .
7 comments:
Wow, potty training is icky.
So, did you get to my co-workers already? There has to be a reason one person brought in a big bag of bite-size butterfingers (my favorite candy bar) and another guy offered me the cookie that came with his lunch cause he didn't want it (white chocolate macademia nut). I don't think $50 is worth this torture. Tonight I'm going to go buy lots of healthy food and then run on my treadmill, lift weights, do tae-bo and possibly borrow my friends new Turbo Jam! I'll probably do each of those for about 5 minutes before either I am very bored or I think my heart will explode. But all together that will be 20+ minutes of exercise so I'll consider it a success!
And the new guy made chocolate chip cookie bars. Goodbye $10 buy in!
Someone PLEASE explain to my sister that one day of a less than stellar diet will not ruin a whole month long venture!! Whiner! :-) (She's been trying to convince us that she couldn't do this contest because she's going to an All You Can Eat place for her birthday mid-January.) You'll do just fine a majority of the other 26 days of this month . . . and we'll all have our less than 100% healthy food days, and I'll still end up kicking all your trash in the end!!
Good luck with you contest...I just saw a picture of me from about 7 or 8 years ago, and man, was I much thinner!
Nothing like a little healthy competition to get things going, right? Good luck with everything!
And today one of my vendors brought me Krispy Kreme. I'm not saying a couple slip-ups will ruin a month of eating well, I'm just saying I think the Universe is opposed to me eating healthy and therefore is throwing treats in front of me at all opportunities.
That's 'cause the Universe loves me way more than it loves you!
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