Keeping Busy..

Sunday:

• 1 hour of Cardio/Strength Training
• Calories ~1400
• No booze J

The weekend was overall pretty successful. Even with Saturday evening out, I still kept my choices pretty fair. I could still do better though.

It was nice to get out and have a chat with Ron about his goals to now start on this program with me – the living the healthy lifestyle. We are not married, for both of us, this is our third serious relationship and although he talks about getting married, I’m not sure if that is what is important to me in our relationship. What is, is being compatible and enjoying our time together. We absolutely love doing things together outside the home (more information on that comment to come). He taught me to golf (I suck still), fly fishing (I’m pretty wicked at fly fishing and can almost outcast a lot of men) and the love of travelling to warm clients (we have a time share in Mazatlan). Before US, I spent most of my life on others – but this past 5 years I’ve been able to get myself back together again. However, Ron is retired, I work full time. Ron does not have very much enthusiasm to get things done and that is because since he retired  he has gotten into the habit of doing nothing. Once you start that, it is hard to get the motivation to get out there and do stuff. He still owns an acreage outside of town which we rent out to a lovely young lady with horses and cows. And since I work downtown, it made more sense for us to live in the city (I really didn’t want to do that winter commute thing anymore and all the work that comes with living on an acreage). But this means he doesn’t have easy access to his shop stuff and if it is cold and miserable out, he doesn’t get out there to do any hobbies.

Getting little Katie was to help him with that, but with winter here, he tends not to get her outside and work her like he should be doing. Anyway what my point is, is that I’m excited that he actually wants to start taking walks with me, eating more healthy, etc. Being active a part of my active lifestyle that I'm trying so hard to incorporate as a daily regime. And if I don’t buy the chips and crap for him, then I don’t have that temptation inside my house. He will want to go out “drinking” less often, and when we go away on our vacations, he  will more easily come on the walks with Katie and I. I am very susceptible and can easily fall prey to his laziness when we are camping or at some tropical location.

On the weekend, I get up at 7 to feed the girl, then I juice my stuff, and start cleaning up, maybe look through some recipe’s, then get my butt downstairs to exercise. Since I used to live on an acreage, I have almost a fully equipped exercise room – actually it just takes over my living space down there. I have an older elliptical – it works fine except the electronics and so I have no idea how fast I am going or the distance, but I don’t care about that really. I have a Treadmill (that we bought for the dog but I use more often than she does), a BowFlex TreadClimber, a Bowflex machine and Bowflex select tech weights (no I’m in no way affiliated with Bowflex – just like their stuff). Along with a Stability ball, tons of bands, etc. not to mention the DVDs J

So I have lots of choices to get my butt in shape down there. Usually I spend an hour to an hour and a half down there doing my stuff. Then when I’m done, I’m upstairs cleaning, cooking, whatever and Ron (who gets up around 11), sits on the couch and watches sports, naps, watches sports. It used to really anger me that he would just do nothing while I did everything in the house but it no longer does. Well I do sometimes get upset but after awhile you really wonder why you spend so much energy being upset about something that isn’t going to change. Now don’t get me wrong, he isn’t like this all the time, just 6/7 days J If I ask him to help, he will but not on his own. Not aware of anything outside of his own TV world. And I guess I HATE to ask for help.

He tells me I need to learn to relax, and some days I agree with him, but for the most part, I enjoy keeping busy. If I was to sit around and do nothing all day, well the house would be a mess, dinner wouldn’t get done, laundry, etc. And I get bored - that's the real key here. I don’t like TV much, nothing of interest on there, I do love to read, but after awhile, that makes you sleepy and in order not to fall asleep, my first thought is that I have to munch on something.

So I just keep busy. All weekend long.

Then Monday comes, and I sit in front of a monitor for 8 hours and when I get up to go somewhere, I can hardly move I’m so stiff and sore. Damn I’m getting old.

I guess this post was just another little bit more information about me.

Hope you are all having a FANTASTIC week!

Sandra

I’m going to YOGA tonight and my friend already told me she won’t be going so I’m outta here early to catch the train and walk. Unfortunately it’s snowing and cold but whatever, I’ll soon warm up.