trying to get a nut to move your butt

Greetings from the wonderful village of Moncton!

You know how when you are trying to eat healthier and things come up that you can't? This is happening this weekend. 

Abby and Erika are making their first Communion this weekend and apparently they are having a big "shin-dig".  Well, at least there will be veggie trays.  And cake... with ice cream.... together.  In one big piece.

I am being distracted by them playing Just Dance 3 right now.  They downloaded a few songs and one of them is Walk Like and Egyptian.  I think I might have to try it later.

I was able to start the gym last week.  It would be great if he would do it all the time.  I can do the twice a week and feel better paying $40 a month than $65 at Yvon's.  It is fun and it doesn't feel like you are at a gym.  It's all core and body work.  I just really like it.

Our team came in fourth for the Biggest Loser contest.  I still blame myself because if all this crap wasn't happening to me, I'm sure I would have had a little extra off to bring us up over the POINT FIFTEEN PERCENT we needed to get third place.  Le Sigh.

Not to much new to report this time around.  I should probably go get ready and head out to town to get ready for tomorrows shin-dig!!

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"sorry, no funny quote today" ~ c. fleiger

End of Chapter 1

As the "Biggest Loser" comes to an end, I can say that although I thoroughly enjoyed it, I didn't give it my all.  As most of the time, I made excuses.  I think I missed 4 classes and only 2 of them I truly couldn't go.  The official final weigh in is tomorrow night. I would like to say I lost at least 10lbs out of this, but I will find out for sure, tomorrow.

As one door closes, as always, another opens.  I have decided to "join" Weight Watchers.  I use the term "join" loosely as I am only following the points system on-line.  www.exercise4life.com has pretty much everything you need.  There is a points calculator, calculator to let you know how many points you can have per day and restaurant pages (although American).

I have been going through my house the last few days and making notes of how many points each item is. So far I have only been surprised that a whole package of Mr Noodles is 10 points.  And if you follow the %daily serving, it's 76% of your daily sodium intake!

One of the trainers of the "Biggest Loser" has made a commitment to have an extended month of classes that are similar to the classes we had for the contest. That starts Thursday and I signed up to take this class.  

It's still the 2 nights a week, but I am swearing to myself that I will put more effort into this.  As of now, I still have 56lbs to go for my first long term goal!  And I wanted to hit that by my birthday in august, but at this rate, I don't think it's going to happen.  But it will!  

I had a friend post a little visual she uses for her weight loss adventure. It's 2 jars with marbles in them.  One is the amount of pounds she wants to lose, and the other is the amount she lost. Takes from one and puts in the other.  I kinda like that idea, I think I may steal it :)  I thought of trying it with loonies but I would probably spend them.

Well, I am off to finish figuring out points for whats left in the house, which shouldn't take too long, there isn't much here.

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"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks" ~ j.e. lewis