The Challenge

Are you up for it?
It's awesome. It changed my life. I'd been on a plateau and after doing this in the weeks before Christmas, I lost almost 10 pounds and am going strong (well, except for that devil sugar-and I am working on it).

My friend, Monica came up with this. I will forever be grateful. She is probably one of the healthiest and most positive people I've ever known. She's always wearing a smile.

I almost didn't join her challenge, because we had a vacation and the holidays coming up.
(And lazy, oh am I lazy.)

I am so glad for that little push inside me that said, "do it!"

Here are some of the things we are going to do to earn points everyday:
excercise 30 minutes a day
one dessert a week
no soda/sugary drinks
no eating after 7:30pm
reading on chapter of scriptures or a book that makes you want to be a better person
a weekly challenge
and a bonus item worth points each week
We are starting January 3rd, 2011.
If you are up for this- let me know! Email me with your email address. You can find my email on my profile or you can decipher this:    143themrs{youknowwhatsigngoeshere}gmail{dot}com

Look forward to hearing from you!

Oh, PS-you should probably know this-I am letting a lot of my friends know about this also, so you might be getting an email from me with a different address on it.
And-the winner of Monica's challenge came up with a chart to track our points and shared it with us. I'll be tweaking it a bit and getting it to everyone who does the challenge with us.

Challenge Details Not Coming Today

A great friend and her family came to town.
We are visiting
and so, no details today.

Sorry.

(They're all written up, I just need to tweak them a bit.)

See you soon!

Oh Squat.

Image from here. (This is not me.)

Oh Squat.

About 32 hours ago, I did a ton of these plus many lunges and some heavy weighted, one legged dumbell deadlifts. And a bunch of other stuff.

And my you know what is aching.

And a stiff.

But I love it.

It means I did something.

I did something good.

And the pain will go away in a while.

Hopefully.

Soon.

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The last 11 weeks before Christmas, I participated in a fitness challenge that my friend started.

I didn't put money in the pot, because I knew I would lose. (Vacation and all - I'm not that down on myself!)

Guess what? Even with the vacation, I still came in 4th-woo hoo. I think I would have been a lot lower in the rankings, if people had not stopped sending in their points. I wonder if they just gave up or just got busy.

I surprised myself with the discipline I had.

And this week, I've surprised myself with the discipline I've lacked.

It's not like to old days, when I could knock out a bunch of goodies in no time flat, but I've eaten more sugar than in all the previous 11 weeks combined.

This morning I woke up with a headache.

I'm pretty sure it's from the sugar.

I need to get back on track.

So, I think I am going to start my own fitness challenge.

January 3rd until March 13th, 2011.

Ten weeks. Seventy days.

I need to make these healthy habits more than habits.

I need to make them who I am.

Want to join me?

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By the way--BIG CONGRATS to my wonderful friend (who frequents this little blog). She was the big winner! She lost 9 pounds and won the pot. And is very excited to have her Saturday mornings back for sleeping.

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Challenge details to come tomorrow. You know you want to do this. Do it, do it, do it!

My Worst Holiday Moment This Year

Picture found here.

If you've read here in the past few weeks, you'll probably know that my time and I have been stretched thin.

So, I've done a lot of delegating. But couldn't delegate everything & was up late Christmas Eve finishing that which I did not delegate.
Namely wrapping. I was a tired wrapper. I was not taking pride in my work. I just wanted to get it done.

Now, please imagine my eleven year old son picking up a present from under the tree and kindly carrying it to his father to be unwrapped.

And with my freshly rested eyes, I said, "Oh man, I did a really bad job wrapping that one. Yuck."

and

mr b said, "I wrapped it."

Guilt = much.

Christmas breakfast = humble pie.

Years of grief they will give me = many.

I am so sorry mr b.

Mele Kalikimaka

I hope you've had a wonderful Christmas!

I've been gone.

But now I'm back.

Guess where I was?

Woo hoo!

And I am still running on island time.

I will be back and writing.

I promise.

Mele Kalikimaka!

With Love,

the mrs

ps-Becky, blogger has a pubish post option and you can schedule your posts.  Pretty cool, huh?
Those last 6 or so posts were all done way ahead of time because I knew I didn't want to pay any attention to becomingversed (no offence intended) during our vacation and prep time.  From my lack of time and posting this past week(since we got home), I'm thinking I should have preposted quite a few more :).

Sunday School

New Season

It's a new season at our house, and I'm not talking winter.

Two of the kids are signed up for basketball.

We usually don't do winter sports.

We usually take a break.

But they started a new program

and I like my kids to run and play

so

we

are

now

back to practicing

and going to games

and all

that goes with

having kids in sports.

I'll let you know how it all works out.