Today I finally got around to beginning my goal of improving my lifestyle/health/diet. I need to eat healthier, exercise more, and dance WAY more. Also, I need to practice my instruments (heh heh) more. Luckily, my work/health insurance provider is AWESOME, and has created a FREE (with insurance, of course) entire incredible system to help me out with the first three (health/diet/exercise) items. It includes a lot of groovy extras to help me be more organized and conscious of my lifestyle, and also has a menu planner, an exercise planner, a walking planner, a health journal, and material for reading. I can pick which exercises I want to do, how often and many I will do, and find out how many calories they typically burn. I can pick menus/food items to eat, get recipes, shuffle ingredients and amounts, and find out how much each protein, calories, fiber, etc each item has. It's impressive. Also, it's damn time consuming. I just spent about 3 hours getting started and entering in my data. Admittedly, future use will take less time, but dang! It's a good thing I burned 360 calories just by sitting on my butt perusing/entering data on the site! Yowza!
I'm stoked because it turns out someone actually reads/read my blog. Cool! Thanks Brooke!
Well, the camping trip was not as active as I had hoped, and I never actually got to swim, even though I spent most of Saturday dressed in my swimming outfit. HOWEVER, I did get to spend a lot of great time being silly with my family and some choice friends (thanks to the Meehans & Brooke for coming along!), and enjoyed getting out of the city for a bit. We have resolved to try again in a couple weeks. The drive-in idea was a total bust. Everyone flaked out. Brooke and I had fun at Skot & Maggie's BBQ though, and enjoyed precious moments watching a snake rescue,
My band will MOST LIKELY be playing on Friday the 13th at Keystone Cafe. Yippee! I enjoy playing music for people who dig us. It's very fun. Plus we get free beer and dinner. YAY!
Come on down and cheer us on! Buy me a beer! Heckle us!
Now I must go move around and perhaps PERHAPS go ride my bike for 30 or so minutes. Then, dinner at my sister's house, hopefully followed by Bananagrams and Master Boggle.
Slainte-
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5 comments:
yes you have a reader... I would actually call myself a fan.
Good luck on the lifestyle changes... I am trying to do the same so maybe we can encourage each other. Or give our food to Dennis.
Camping was fun. I cant believe we went into a convenient store sporting just the bathin suits... SWEET!
Heck yes it was fun! We looked freaking HOT in those bathing suits, too!
We can help each other out fo sho! It's easier with helpers! Dennis is into helping too, by encouraging me to get off mah ass and go play outside. He's awesome.
2 fans!!!! Good for you Holly on the lifestyle changes. Half the battle is in getting started. I didn't do the district thing but have been trying to work on it myself this summer. Feels good to be doing something again as it has been a long, long time - too long. Perhaps we can get a work motivation/support program going as there are also a lot of people doing WW as well.....
Keep us posted on whether you are playing on Friday.
"Swimming Outfits"....hummmmm that does conjure up many images....
Was lamenting the fact of quitting certain things to facilitate losing weight and as my mother and i walk out of the store i notice all the ice cream...that went well...
@Susan: Thanks! We *should* get together and harass each other, ahem, support each other while we try to improve our selves. I'm mad today because the website I'm using won't let me log in. ARGH!
@ Mindriot: Totally! It's so rough! But why would YOU need to lose weight? Or are you talking about in your brain? heh heh.
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