The Mission
A week has passed — a week in which my wife and I have adopted our new mission: Health.
I hear you laughing. Kiss my rosy white-boy cheeks, mister.
For the longest time my wife has been begging me to motivate the both of us to exercise, eat right, etc. The fact is, both of us need to drop weight. I’ve gained back all the weight I lost pre-wedding, which wasn’t *tons* as such but a lot of it was stuff I gained in muscle and lost in fat and how it has switched places such that now I have a gut again and am a lot more wimpy. So I need to lose that and more, since I never really got down to what I wanted back then, anyway.
So, we’ve been using FitDay to track our calories, which has been really hard since we never knew what we were eating and what calories it had, so it’s definately opened our eyes to what we’re putting in our mouths. Did you know a single bagel is 300 calories? I used to eat 2 for breakfast every day. 600 calories before I even barely got started! Plus the cream cheese. I’m only allowed about 1800 calories/day in order to lose the weight I want to lose, so that’s 1/3 of my entire day gone right there….which isn’t undoable, BUT — considering that breakfast is usually one of the smallest meals of the day….so now I eat a bowl of GV MultiGrain Flakes with milk for a total of about 460 calories instead.
We’ve been exercising although we have yet to settle into something truly effective and useful. We have an old treadmill that we use, but it has two speeds — granny and caffinated granny — so we can’t make much use of it for a Real Hard Workout. We’re thinking of buying a good one, but we have to try to save up for it or something. In the meantime, we’re doing that and also lifting dumbells to exercise and that does some good. Tonight I had my first shot at getting back into Tae Bo by running the Advanced tape and working out to it. It royally Kicked My Ass. But, in a good way, as it felt like I definately had a workout. So, I hope to do that more often.
We’ll see — we’re committed to doing this. We want to go back to Australia in June/July/August and we both want to look good, have money to spend, and do a lot of activites while we’re there, including going out in public and dancing, having fun, etc. If we’re fit, we can do that without feeling bad. Yay for goals, eh? 
