Life at the Beach

Well today has been an interesting day.  My husband who has hurt his shoulder had two doctors appointments today.  One in the morning and one later in the afternoon.  Well the first one was close to home and we ended up with 3 hours between appointments.  Well you may think no big deal go home take a nap, do a few things, talk a walk on the beach, but no we had no stairs!!   We live in an apartment and on the second floor and we had NO stairs!!!!!!   That is our apartment upstairs on the left. 

NO STAIRS!!

So we killed some time by going to lunch and then hanging out at one of our friends house for awhile.  Well we left the house at 9am and by the time we got home they weren't even close to being finished.  In fact, the picture above was from 430p.  Well we had no where to go and just wanted to be able to go upstairs so we could one be in the A/C and two watch TV.  Well the workers didn't really speak English, our office staff had decided to leave for the day(which is totally typical of them), and our maintence(who would have a ladder) was no where to be found.   So my wonderful and hurt husband decided to climb up the back balcony, which was no easy feat and go through the sliding door (cuz we never lock it) and get the card to call the emergancy number for the office.  I thought that he was going to kill himself or at least add another injury to the 2 that he has already.  However, he got up there and after some words between us he found the card that I left on the living room table instead of putting back on the fridge.  I called the number and of course no answer.  Luckily I saw the maintence man and was able to communicate with him that we had no stairs and would like a ladder.  He went to check on it and 15 mins later came back with a ladder.  My little one went up first with her no fear self and I followed closely behind holding both her drinks with my purse wrapped around my neck.  UGH!  Well at least we were home.  Well, the next problem comes to the dog!!!!  He hasn't been walked since this morning and there is no way I can get him down that ladder to walk him so my option??   to put him out on the balcony and try to convince him he won't get a spanking for doing his business out there......not an easy feat, he didn't like this option.  Well it's 11pm at night and they are still working!!! and they are at the top now putting on the railing and it is supper loud of course it's Kaley's bedtime and there is no way she is going to fall asleep!

Tomorrow we have no plans to be in the car as it is extremely painful for my husband with his injuries, so we hope to go to the beach.  Oh yeah, our beach right now has 3 feet of sea grass....how delightful...life at the beach..gotta love it!!!!!

Goal # 2

Well, I am on my way to completing goal #2.  It has been taking longer than I had hoped to lose weight but I am losing at a rate of 1-2lbs per week.  Nothing to really complain about.  But now in this Biggest Loser Era I want to lose weight faster!!!!  However, do I really want to commit to working out 6 hours a day to lose the amount of weight that they do.....NO of course not.  I want to be able to exercise my 60-90 mins when I do exercise and count my calories and for it to be enough, but in reality it is not.  If I want bigger results I have to put in the extra effort.  I was going to start doing that this week but something was always happening to distract me from exercising.  The truth is that since I got home from Disney World I haven't actually been out even walking.  It's only been 10days but enough is enough time to get back out there.  Luckily I have still been losing weight.  I am now down officially 24lbs total but since I have begun this journey this time in March 2010 I have lost 19lbs.  That is in 12 weeks.  I hoped to have been down closer to 30lbs in that amount of time but I am happy with the lose.  Oh well. 

So I was watching Jillian Michael's latest show where she moves into someone's home for a week.....mostly out of complete boredom as there was nothing else on......but the one that I caught this lady lost 32lbs in 6 weeks.  That is a little over 5lbs a week.  Now she was a single working mom so you know that she wasn't working out 6 hours a day.  It showed that she worked out in the morning, maybe every morning and then ran after work with her co-workers 3 days a week.  The problem with these types of shows is that it doesn't show everything that they really do or what types of foods that they eat.  I know. I know.  low fat, low carb, calorie restricted type diets with whole grains.....blah blah blah.   WHY is it that all the people on these types of shows just happen to like any kind of vegtable that they are given....YUCK is what I say to that.  Now I know that they are good for you and I should be eating more and I do like some veggies but just some.  Why can't they put people on these shows that are like that and show how they can accomplish weightloss or can overcome there aversion to veggies.   I don't know what to do about that problem.  The other thing that I struggle with is no matter how much I watch my calories and no matter how good I am doing I still have a craving for sweets.....especially ice cream.  Now my craving isn't as bad as it used to be but I still like to have sweets and like I said especially ice cream.  On these shows it always seems that they never have this struggle with sweets either and they just have this epithany about not eating them and how they are bad for them.  Anyways, that enough of my little rant for now. 

In the end I am still doing good as I am still losing weight, which has been my goal.  I never put a time limit on reaching my goal so I have to just celebrate what I have done so far.  I would really like to lose that same 30lbs that lady I saw did in the next 6 weeks.  I don't know if it is really possible but I am going to give it a good shot.  My plan is to workout in the morning at the little office gym.  Take my little one swimming for a little while in the afternoon and then walk in the evening with the dog after my husband gets home.  We will see if I actually do all this, but it is the plan.  Oh and by the way the little leaves for the rest of the summer in a couple weeks so I probably won't even go to the pool after she does.   Also, I have a birthday coming up in about 3 weeks.