Anybody know the name of a good jump rope repairman???

I just tried to jump rope in the bedroom....I really tried...hard! But it kept getting stuck on my feet! My jump rope must be broken! That's the only explanation I can come up with!! Well, I can't say that I didn't TRY to workout today!

UUGGHH...I feel the beach slipping right through my fingers....no pain, no bikini!  And right now I'm feeling no pain! Oh well, I guess I can try to stay positive and say that I've at least kind of kept my weight steady this whole time. That may be more than I would have done without blogging about it!  I'd probably be up 5 or 10 pounds just from not being semi-careful!  So I'm going to look at this last month in a positive way! I need to go back and read some of my older posts and try to get motivated again! I wanna be skinny!!!!

Anyway, some cool articles can be found on naturalnews.com.  Thanks so much to my friend, Jane, for introducing me to it!  I've been reading  How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days on the website.  It's written by Mike Adams and it is extremely informative! I especially like day 4 where he talks about transforming your blood. It's quite a read!  Check it out if you get a chance!

Thanks for checking in!!!

So is life getting in the way of working out or is working out getting in the way of life?

UUUGGGHHH......I started out kind of strong...and here I go...making excuses, finding other "more important" things to do, etc! Deep down, I truly believe that one can find time for ANYTHING that is important to them. There really should be no excuses!

Examples: (from my own life)

Oh, sorry, I was so busy yesterday I didn't have time to call you back!
When you truly think about it, there's always five minutes here or there that can be used to call someone back. Unless it's someone who doesn't get the clue that you have to hang up and keeps talking and talking! That can be tricky!

I didn't have time to make the bed when I got up this morning.
Really, you didn't stand there watching your coffee brew so you could scoop up the first cup before it was even finished? That was at least two minutes you had free!!

And my most recent excuse:
I just had NO TIME to excercise because my car blew up and my husband had to drive me around and then we had to go car shopping and then I had to sell my old car and then I had to get the title transferred...and then...and then...and then....
Hmmmm...I do somewhat remember making time to watch the Amazing Race during that "CRAZY" week of mine!

So I should be sitting here blogging about the excercise I performed, not the excuses I made!!! It's too easy to "pretend" life is getting in the way!  I do believe there is one exception.. if you have kids, that's a DEFINITE BONAFIED excuse maker! Kids are WORK!  I don't know how you people do it!!! But, for me, with a houseful of canines, not kiddos, THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!

So, I come to you with my tail between my legs, saying that I am LAZY and I'm not focusing on the task I promised myself I would! But this is a promise to myself to change that starting....uh...well, maybe tomorrow...I'm kind of busy today......

Thank you God....

Church today was great.  I must admit, I get more from the children's moment thatn from anything else.  It's so darn cute and the kids give such sweet, innocent answers to the questions...I just LOVE it! I've always felt like I relate best to kids and dogs anyway. Too bad they don't have a dog's moment! Anyway, they always design the children's moment around the topic for that Sunday's sermon.  Today's topic was realizing God is present with you and trying to be more aware of that presense every day. Miss Lois (the leader) asked the kids to name some things they were thankful for that God has given them.  She wanted, though, only things from the time they got up this morning until the moment they were sitting there with her. Some of the answers were, "getting out of bed this morning, watching mommy cook breakfast for me, having a car to drive us to church so we didn't have to walk," (ooh-yeah...that one would have been MY answer, too... I hope I didn't startle anybody when I cheered)!! One girl said "fish,".....yeah...there's always one in the crowd that doesn't quite get it!

I promise to try to spend my week thanking God for all the wonderful things in my life.  I think I'm pretty good about that anyway(although it has been a learning process for many years to become like that), but there's always room for improvement, right? So I thank Him for many things-one being this blog as a way to get my feelings and issues down on "paper" to share with many friends at one time! And I thank Him for giving me the strength to change some of my habits recently...(how's that for a transition into talking about weight loss)?

I have DEFINITELY reversed my soda habit.  We would keep cans of diet soda in our fridge all the time and I would have at least two per day.  Since I started this blog, I drank what was left that first weekend and I've only had coffee, iced tea, green tea and water. That's about 20 days.  And it wasn't really too hard.

I have PRETTY MUCH broken the drive-thru habit.  Sometimes I'm on the road so long that my lunch is long gone and the orange, fuzzy monster in my tummy starts growling.  I have indulged in one or two double cheeseburgers here and there at times like that.  But, for the most part, my packed lunch gets me through if I eat a little at a time.

Remember I talked about liking wine? Well, after a few nights of 2-3 glasses of wine and having to curtail the munchies, I've decided if I want a glass of wine I will just have ONE! And I told hubs to monitor me.  Of course, I have goblet-sized wine glasses so I left myself a loophole if I need one!  "Yes, honey, I know it's filled to the brim, but it's only one glass...that's the rule!"

The excercise habit-whew-now that's another story!! I CANNOT seem to get into it!  I don't know if it's the fact I'm running around all day long and I just collapse when I get home or what? This is something I must CHANGE if I want to lay on that beach in Hollywood! Because, remember, I am ONLY hurting myself by not excercising.  I WILL NOT GO ON VACATION if I don't complete this task.  And then I'll be a grumpy grumpmaster!! I am trying to put pressure on myself by opening up and saying all this on the blog.  I NEED the pressure! I WANT the pressure!  Because once I hit "PUBLISH POST" it's out there forever!! Thank you, God, for inventing blogs!!! (Uh....I think)!!

Have a great Sunday!!!