Workout update

When I purchased my treadmill from Nordic Track I also purchased the "Loose weight with Jillian" iFit card 3 pack. Each card has 24 programed workouts (8 weeks worth) and Jillian coaches/motivates you during each one (the card is programed to adjust your speed and incline and it works without you doing a single thing besides pushing the start button).


- Jillian Michaels... the mean-as-a-bear trainer on The Biggest Looser (my favorite reality tv series) -

Today I did the last workout from the level 1 card. Level 1 was a good place to start but overall was easier than I expected and I hope to get more of a challenge from level 2. I work out 4-5 times per week switching off between a treadmill workout and weight resistance training with some dvds I have. Here is a list of what I have accomplished over the past 10 weeks;

• I have lost 10 pounds
• I have overcome a weight plataeu
• I can now jog an 11 minute mile (I started out with a 14 minute mile)
  
• I haven't gone down a size yet, but my pants definitely fit me better (and go on much easier, even straight from the dryer)
• I am feeling much improved, physically, from where I used to be.

It is exciting to see my work pay off. I know that if I got my diet under better control I would see results even faster, but I just don't have the self control for that yet. Food is a constant battle for me. I do well getting in my fruits and veggies and I eat healthy snacks and well rounded meals.. it is the sweets that get me! They are my down fall.

I have to give a shout out to my friend Angela (AGshorty). She and I are long-distance workout buddies and it is so wonderful to have someone to go through this with and to check in with every day. It has motivated and strengthened me so much. Thank you, Angela!

We are going to California for the Turner reunion on June 19-20. That is 11 weeks away (80 days to be exact) and I'm using that as a short term goal and hope to loose another 10 pounds by then. I average a 1 pound weight loss every 10 days and I hoping to rev that up to 1 pound per week. When I reach that goal I will be just under what I weighed when I got pregnant with Daniel. Reaching your pre-pregnancy weight is always a BIG milestone so I'm looking forward to that.

It's been a while...

I went and got my stitches out on Tuesday and was informed I had a desmoid tumor which is just a bunch of fibrous tissue that can accumulate when there was trauma to the area like a bug bite or pimple. Since it was on my shin and I've never had a pimple there I think it must have been from a bug bite. I'm glad it wasn't anything worse. I also have a mild case of eczema. Joy.

Tonight I am teaching a mini-class at enrichment on budgeting. I've been working hard on it and I'm excited to see how it goes. Also, I am on a really big food storage kick right now and I'm really having fun with it. I found this blog about food storage and this is what drew me in. Watch the 10 min video she put up on Jan. 25th, I found it helpful and motivating. This is such a fun blog to look at and I was immediately drawn into it, it is so addicting.

I have consistently worked out for 5 days a week since the beginning of the year and my weight is stuck. I was seeing about a 1 pound weight loss every 10 days and now I have reached a plateau. I know we all have several weight plateaus and it means I just have to work extra hard to get over it.. but I'm still bummed out by it. Side note: I'm really enjoying my new treadmill.

Let see.. the kids are both doing well. Except that Jacob keeps hitting his head. He doesn't watch were he is going and will run into walls, car doors, fall down the last few stairs.. you name it. He has had two really bad hits in the last week that gave him big goose eggs on his forehead. They look awful and I have to keep explaining what happened to him, lest I be accused of child abuse or something. So far today he has run into a wall and hit the side of his head, let's see how the day progresses.

Bad news: the medical bills just keep coming and keep piling up. I find it very depressing.

Brent is the same old. He doesn't do much.

My week

This week went ok I suppose. My treadmill still doesn't work and the tech guy didn't show up yesterday, so that is being put off yet again. My friend Angela and I have come up with a plan to help motivate each other. At the end of each day we email each other and say what we did for exercise and how we did with our eating. I'm finding it very helpful to have the accountability and support. I worked out 5 days this week. I'm hoping to keep that up so that when my treadmill is finally "running" (hee hee) I can start right out on some nice workouts without delay.

We decided to switch services from Comcast to Verizon. It is exactly the same cost and it will be a faster fiber optic internet, we will get BYU-TV as part of standard cable and we will have a DVR for 6 months free of charge. I've always wanted to try one of those. Hopefully it will be a nice change void of complication.

I got the bill for Daniel's birth yesterday. You know how you sign those papers saying if your insurance doesn't pay up you are responsible? Well, the bill is 6 grand and due in the next 20 days. I'm going to call on Monday and try to be nice while getting our insurance to pay up. Stupid idiots. We have Providence Preferred insurance and delivered at a Providence hospital! How can they not pay that bill??!! I'm a little ticked. I don't need the added stress of all the insurance crap I've had to deal with. I'm glad to have it and have some coverage as some is better than none. But boy am I workin' for what we do get. We got another bill this week for Daniel's shoes. They cost over $800 and our portion is $120. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with medical bills right now. We owe around $3,000 (separate from that 6k bill I just got) and have set up a payment plan to help us manage it. The sad thing is there is more to come I'm sure.

Today we went as a family to the Children's Discovery Museum. Jacob has so much fun there and it was really nice to trade off interacting with him with Brent. Bob the Builder was there and Jacob got to meet him and give him 5. I would say he had the most fun in the water area, since that was all new for him. We were there for only 2 hours but we played hard and then came home for lunch. Both boys crashed and took a nice long naps. This enabled me to have some time to read, take a nap and workout to a DVD.

Tomorrow is expected to be a low-key day, which will be nice.

Thwarted

I feel like I get thwarted a lot. Or I just have bad luck. I was supposed to get my treadmill on the 5th. It didn't come until the 8th. It was supposed to arrive between 11 and 1 pm. 2:30 rolls around and I call they said I was two deliveries away. It finally came at 5 pm. Then, 30 minutes later, I get a call from Brent that he is going to work late (which means he couldn't set it up). By now I'm pretty bummed. We got it mostly set up on Friday night and discovered it didn't work. I was going to call customer care on Saturday, but with it being our anniversary we were busy all day. I called this morning and they are going to send out a technician sometime in the next week. ::sigh:: I am so anxious to get going! Anyway, here are some pictures you'll enjoy.

In the hallway. The box was so banged up from shipping it was about to pop open. Since it weighs 248 lbs I thought it would be wise to keep Jacob away from it. He was dying to play with it. Poor kid.


- All the parts -




- Brent finishing it up -

I'll post another picture of me on it when it is actually working.

Also, I had to post about Daniel. Last week I went in our room (I thought he was napping) and this is what I found. He was chomping away on his crib making little cute cooing noises, it was so hilarious we took a little video to remember forever. What a cutie!



- Look at this grin! He's so proud of himself. -

Then I thought you would all like to see my cute boys in the matching pj's Grandma Turner gave them. Hilarious. Can you tell we just have so much fun?! (Jacob has been carrying around that screwdriver (from when Brent used it for the treadmill) for several days now).