just some stuff... and nsv and a couple pics!

ok.... so..... i have another nsv to report!!!

we've been trying to get more fit as a family. as i said before, my husband has been on sick leave for two months and just went back to work. my son is on meds that make him eat a lot and he's not as active as he should be (he's 11). and my daughter... well, she's active and skinny as all get out so she really doesn't need anything but anyway..... and of course  me.... i'm the banded one needed to lose these last thirty something pounds to reach my goal.

so night before last we decide to use the netflix to tv through the wii and do a family workout. we chose a cardio dancing workout. it had good music and lots of funky moves. my son got sent to his room shortly after we started it becuase he couldn't stop laughing and disrupting everyone else's workouts - sigh! the other three of us stuck it out and did the moves. even the ones that we didn't quite get. what can i say? none of us are dancers! lol 

it was a mini workout. a ten minute part of a 10 minute at a time exercise video. well, about 6 minutes in my husband couldn't take it anymore. he had to sit down. all huffing and puffing. my daughter and i kept going and finished out the workout. then we decided to do another fifteen minutes or so of another type of workout. i tried and tried to get my husband to join in but he said there was no way. he had had enough. he said he was "wore out".

so here i am.... thinking to myself, "omg! is this really happening? my military husband is worn out and here i am still going strong? are you kidding me???" well, it wasn't a joke. it was real. i was making it!!!! it made me feel great!

we talked about it later (my husband and i) and i told him i totally expected that i would be the one left behind by him not vice versa. he said he thought that, too, but it didn't turn out that way. i am still shocked.

it's two days later and i can still feeel the effects of that workout. we're going to do another one tonight i think.

last night i went online and ordered zumba transformation set on ebay. it comes with six different workouts and the sticks. my daughter is excited about this cuz she has begged and begged to do zumba with me (which i still haven't gone to a class yet) and i have to keep telling her that if i go she can't go cuz kids can't go. so now she's excited i'll be doing it at home so she can do it, too.

i'm so glad that she's active and likes working out. hopefully she won't end up down the obese path that i did. 

i'm so ready to lose these last 30 something pounds to reach my goal. now if only my mind would think about that when i'm eating those reeses cups i'm addicted to right now. sigh!!!

so here are some progress pics....

this was last christmas 2009

and this is this christmas 2010:

so there's the evidence of 56 pounds gone! it makes me feel good to see these pics!