Sunday Check in

Hugh and I had a good day yesterday. He busted out the "Dance Dance Revolution" game for the Wii and has been dancing up a storm. Ya know what? My kid is getting into healthy eating and fitness! He knows he has to get off his butt more and dancing is his deal. I even played some with him. Little goof put me on a really hard fast song by accident - we sure laughed hard.

We went to see Madagascar 2. The adults busted up big. Hugh's a little more mature than most 10 yo boys, and he got a lot of the adultish humor.

We went to the "outlet" mall so I could get him some pants at Old Navy. Then we went to Harry and David's. They had samples of some whole grain tortilla chips. YUM! So we got a bag. 18 in a serving is a nice wad of crunch. Hugh wanted WW super nachos again, so this was all in the plan.

Guess what! - I snuck the black beans in on the boy. Yep. I pureed them as well as I could and dumped the puree in. Told Hugh I accidently added beans and had to scoop them out and missed a few. The majority were in a separate bowl for me. He liked it and was eye-rollingly annoyed at my sneakiness. I hate "lying" to him, but if that is what I have to do to get him to try new healthy stuff and eat more like me - fine.

I also found some of the Quaker pumpkin oatmeal at Walmart. Does it say "pumpkin spice"? Yep. Here I was thinking pumpkin - you know - as in they put some of the pump in the oats??? Nope - just the spices. I could have done that my own self. It was just okay as a flavor. I prefer cinnamon, cinnamon swirl, etc. I'll eat it cuz I bought it, but I wouldn't go after it again.

We are going to cook something different around here today - I'm not sure what yet. I will try to get that Hugh involved so we can put up some interesting pictures.

It was pretty cold here this morning, but I took the K-9 units on a longer walk anyway. I ran part of it. Running is not comfortable for me as in my body flops too much for me to be able to sustain running for long. But I have this "inner runner" who appears to be dying to get out. I used to run a lot for fun as a kid, but as I got bigger and bigger, I slowed down more and more. I want to feel that feeling of running again.

I caught episode one of Ruby on Style Network. Jennette Fulda (Half-assed/Pasta Queen) recommended it. Ruby is morbidly obese and doing a reality show to try to get to a healthy weight. I can relate to many of her issues, so it was disturbing in its own way.

I would LOVE not to go to the gym today, but I can't blow it off. I paid for it!! Plus I am going to put it on hold for December and maybe January...IDK...because I am sick of the running every damned day or so. I need a mental break, not from the gym but from the go go go that has been on-going since about May. I'm gonna lose it if I dont' get to just chill for a while. We'll see what happens. Maybe I'll decide to wait until January to take a break. I"m a little afraid that I'll go backwards on my progress. Grrr. We'll have to see.

Have a great day.
linda