Copious Corpulent Chatter

I am about to start again. I bought Tim Ferriss’s new book the 4 hour body and I lost about 9#. Then, my summer got VERY stressful and I gained it all back. Now, I am about to start the PX90 workout in tandem with the 4 hour body. This ‘new and improved’ blog will be documenting my progress! And, I just booked a trip to Hawaii in March so I will have inspiration to ‘get down on it’.

We are going to have 12 people around the table this Thanksgiving! My husband is already home cooking. He has also done 3 trips to the airport today. I am nervous about being around my father-in-law & sister-in-laws. My husband’s family is odd. They are seem to bottle stuff up and then explode at some point. I guess I have sorta become the same way around them. And, they explode at the weirdest things. For instance, I could be listening to public radio and my father-in-law will storm in and yell, “how the hell can you listen to that liberal baloney?!?!”. He never cusses but you feel like he is cussing…Plus, I do not trust him around my daughter. He has anger issues and although he has not hit any of his family members in years, he did hit my husband when he was little (in fact, my husband almost died a couple of times from head fractures). Therefore, I will not allow my lil girl to be alone with him even for a second. STRESSFUL!!

I wonder how the diet will go with them around? I suspect that will want to drink more adult beverages than I usually do.

I am sure that I will sneak away and give you a report soon!

It is about 4:30pm and it is looking like it is going to get dark soon. We have about 6.5 hrs of daylight about now. The gloomy darkness is my newest excuse for eating too much (and the cold is the newest excuse for not moving enough!). My daughter has been asking for her own snowshoes so today, I went to the REI sale and bought her the snowshoes. My plan is to take her snowshoeing post Turkey dinner and then, sledding on the weekend. Did you know that according to my nifty iPhone app, a girl could burn about 308 calories for 30 min of snowshoeing? Or, 264 calories for 30 minutes of sledding! Whoooo — here we go. Maybe I will actually figure out a way to both hang out with my lil girl and move! Too fun. I will report later…

It has been almost a year since I have been on this blog. Well, I am about 5 lbs lighter since I last logged on…However, I am hoping for a little faster weight loss (5 lbs/year is a little too slow!).

Last weekend, I had a couple of friends over for brunch. During the course of the conversation, we all agreed that losing weight was on of our main goals. One of the gals suggested that we all download an iPhone application called Lose it! Then, we came up with a plan: we will lose our weight and all go to Hawaii or Mexico together for my 40th birthday (which is in April).

So far, I have been using my diet app on the iPhone every day. According to the app, I am allowed 1,500 calories a day. So far, I have made that almost every day but I am not moving very much. Right now, I think that I am just going to focus on the food and when I get that under control, I will phase in exercise. More soon.

I am super unhappy right now. My self esteem is in the toilet. Not all of it is linked to my weight but a lot of it is…My husband is a super human and at the same time, I can tell that my weight is getting in the way of our physical relationship. My husband has a body of a Greek god. You might be saying, “lucky you”! Yes, it was great when my body sort of measured up but now, I am walking around with a man about 100x more fit then me. Weird. And, I think that it is weird for him too. Of course, this is about the only thing that we can not talk about because he knows that weight is a hard subject for me.

I think that this is the 3rd blog I have started here. It seems that the amount of blogging I am doing is directly related to how well I am doing on my weight loss so I guess that I should blog more (more blogging = healthier eating!). I am about 190 lbs. I am looking to be 150, meaning I have about 40 lbs to lose. I am relatively healthy eater but I eat too much and I do not move. My biggest hurdle (by far) is finding the time/energy to move. I guess I should go run up and down the stairs now instead of writing in this blog…