It's Sunday morning and the rain is coming down right outside the window while I sit here and drink coffee. Jace is eating his breakfast s-l-o-w-l-y... he's been eating a bowl of cheerios with milk and a side of fruit for at least a half hour. He keeps taking breaks to play the drums with the spoon, and play peekaboo with an imaginary friend. I keep reminding him to keep eating, and he does, but then he gets side tracked again. It's just going to be one of those mornings I guess. :)
I'm so happy it's raining this morning, we've needed it so badly with the heat lately. I can just see the grass drinking it up and growing. We're going to have to break out the lawn mower this week I'm sure. This week I'm having some moms and kiddos over to play so I hope it stops raining before then so we can play outside. Other than that... I'm loving it though. I love the smell of rain in the morning, it's just so peaceful and it forces you to slow down and take it easy for a bit.
Tate was supposed to fly in on Thursday night, but Delta delayed his flight out of Florida which made him miss his connection into Charleston and there were no flights until the next morning. It was definitely disappointing for all of us but we made up for it by going out for an early dinner on Friday to celebrate some of his recent work accomplishments. We went to Outback Steakhouse in N. Charleston by the mall. Jace loves the bread there. He ate two loafs by himself. I swear you put a carb in front of that kid and he'll eat it until it's gone and then beg for more, but don't dare do that with meat or veggies... sigh.
After dinner we headed to the mall to look at Express since I had a coupon for $15 off a $30 purchase and wanted to pick up a couple t-shirts with color after my last shopping experience at Ross that ended up being 5 black and white shirts. Tate occupied Jace while I grabbed a couple of things to try on. I forced myself to try on a light brown shirt and a hot pink shirt, both totally out of my comfort zone... and guess what? I loved them. I guess there is a world outside of black, gray, white, beige, and blue!
I do have to say it way my weirdest experience at Express, ever. From the moment I walked in this awkward sales guy was harrassing me. He kept trying to get me to try shorts on, so I said I had no idea what size I'd even wear in them. He kept pushing it, asking why I didn't know what size I was. So I replied "Well I've gained weight since last summer and have no idea, but I'm not interested in shorts anyways...". Here comes the good part. He decided to take it upon himself and GUESS what size he thought I was. Note to all guys out there, don't ever guess a girls size, especially not if you guess too big. Then he wanted to talk to me about why I've gained weight... I was literally running away from him in the store as he's chasing me saying "Well you have to cut out fast food...". I didn't know they hired dietician's at Express!
The girl checking me out didn't want to give me the correct discount and was challanging me that $15 was half of $25. (The shirts were buy one get one 50% off). I had to tell her at least 5 times that $12.50 was half of $25. She still didn't believe me and this took about 5 minutes for her to figure it out. All in after the BOGO sale and the $15 off coupon code I had, I paid $27.50 for $55 worth of clothing. Not bad, but they really just mark clothes up to mark them down there... I wouldn't ever pay $55 for those two t-shirts I got. I love Express, but that was by far the weirdest shopping experience I've ever had there.
Maybe it was the clothes shopping, or maybe it was the sales guy guessing I was a "4 or a 6", or maybe it's a few people asking me how I've been doing on being healthier since I posted about it a while back... but the next morning I decided I needed to really get on track with getting more fit before summer hits. I said I would be healthier a MONTH ago... and I stuck to it for the first week and lost a few pounds quickly. But, then Tate sabotaged me. I'm not kidding. Bringing home 2 big bags of Checkers or super-sized value meals from McDonalds at 2 am twice in one week is a total sabotage. Who makes good food decisions when they're woken up in the middle of the night to their significant other having just flown in, and he's got BURGERS and FRIES and SODA. Oh yea! Of course I was going to eat it... every. last. bite. And since then I've been completely off track and back to where I was, eating junk food like it's my job.
I've realized that for me, I can't just try to eat healthier. I have to also work out, otherwise I lack any motivation to make healthier food choices long term. I realized when I woke up yesterday that I had a Jillian Michael's book on our shelf that I'd never read. I think I must have picked it up second hand meaning to read it and never got around to it. The book is called "Making the Cut" and it's geared as a 30-day workout plan for people trying to lose 10-20 pounds. I don't want to actually do the program, but instead just take pointers from it and use some of the exercises.
In the beginning of the book it has you give yourself a quick fitness test to see if you're ready for the work-out plan. The first test was a push-up test, you had to do as many as you could until exhaustion and compare that number to a chart. Well I guess I can do an "average" amount. If you're a glass half full kinda person like me I was like "Whoa, I'm not poor or very poor, alright!" This morning my chest hurts... sad I know. But that's what happens when you haven't worked out in almost two and a half years. The other two tests were a one-minute sit up test and a wall sit test. For both it said I was "excellent" but that's not really a fair assessment on my physical fitness since I've just always been one of those girls that has too much muscle in my legs and abs that never really goes away. Don't worry there is plenty of fat covering it up. :)
So anyways, it basically said I'm ready for a fitness program... no more excuses. I decided the first step is to bring our eliptical in from the garage and put it in our master bedroom for now so that I can workout everynight after Jace goes to bed. I usually watch TV in bed for a bit everynight anyways, so I'll just workout while I watch TV instead... simple enough right? I hope so. I'm going to try to do some of the workouts from Jillian's book too so that I tone up a bit. I'm also going to make a point to go for a walk everyday with Jace regardless of what else we've got going on that day. He loves walks and it's better than sitting at home baking cookies. Then hopefully I just will make a few healthier food choices because I won't want to "ruin" my workout.
Speaking of food choices. According to Miss Jillian Michael's I should be eating about 1400 calories per day. Is she nuts?? I eat at least double that, everyday. I guess I could cut back a bit, but at 1400 I'd end up starving and having no energy to chase Jace around. I get crabby if I don't eat every two hours or so. She did say that if you're one of those "always hungry" people that you need to focus on eating more fats and protein in each meal, and avoiding carbs almost completely. Makes sense I guess. I'll try that and see if I can make it a little longer between meals, and therefore cut down on caloric intake.
I'm also going to avoid wearing comfortable flowy clothing for a while. No more "comfy pants" when lounging around the house. Only yoga pants of jeans. No more flowy maternity-esque tops on hot days. Tight tank tops and t-shirts only. And I'm going to force myself to wear shorts. (gasp!) It's way easier to over eat and skip workouts if you're in loose clothing, but when you're in something more revealing and tight it keeps you a little more on track. Besides I usually end up looking 10-15 pounds heavier in flowy clothing anyways... especially when it's 85 degrees out and I just look overdressed.
My goal is still to lose about 15 pounds and tone up. But more than any "number" my goal is really just to be able to fit into my old jeans without having to lay down to button them up and to be able to wear tight shirts and feel comfortable. Last night I decided to go for a walk with Jace, but then it started downpouring rain and we got totally soaked. Not a good start to my workout plan. Oh well... there's always tomorrow. ;)
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