Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8
Saturday:  267.4  Yesterday:  267.8  Today:  268.2
Change today:  +0.4 TOM   Loss-so-far: 11.6 lbs.

I know it’s my TOM but geez these weight fluctuations are driving me crazy!  I feel like I’ve lost that one same pound about twelve times now!

Yesterday Hubby and I went shopping for these liner things that you put inside a bike tire (between the tire and the tube) to protect the tube from being stabbed with little annoyances like sandspurs.  Each set is 20 bucks, but they are totally worth it in terms of tube-replacement and rear-painage.  He already had a set in his bike tires, so we got a set for me and a set for Kevin.  Thus, we did not actually ride our bikes, nor did we do our home-project-thing that we were supposed to do.  But, we did something else health-and-fitness-related.

We shopped.  My husband loves thrift stores and on our way to the bike store we went past one of his favorite stores and there was a big ol’ sign out front that said, “Half-Price Sale!”  Oh, that was just too tempting to pass up twice, so on the way back from the bike store, we stopped to check it out.  Right out front was a mysterious-looking contraption that Mike recognized right away - I had no idea what it was.  It was partially folded up, so even when he told me what it was, I had a hard time visualizing how it worked.  It was priced at $59 so our cost would be $30.

He unfolded it.  I tried it.  We bought it.

On the way home, I spoke to Kevin (son) on the phone.  Here’s how the conversation went:

“Hey Kevin, Dad and I bought something at the thrift store that you and I can use.”
“Really?  What is it?”
“It’s something that Chuck Norris uses.”
“Dude!  Really?!  You got a Total Gym?!”

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Now how could he possibly have known that?  Hubby tells me it’s because it’s the only product Chuck Norris endorses.  I don’t generally watch infomercials but I could have sworn I’d seen him in several, lol.  Anyway…

I found some videos on YouTube posted by a personal trainer, telling how to use this thing.  It looks pretty cool.  We start training tonight!

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