Our Family & Our Life

Dear Diary, I drink copious amounts of water. Probably about 80 ozs. a day or 10 glasses because that's what the "experts" say to do when trying to lose weight. I've never had a problem drinking water but recently I've increased my intake especially when working out at the gym. Lately I have been noticing that I am up to 1.5 lbs. heavier once I get back from the gym. That seemed odd to me since I do sweat a fair bit (sorry, TMI) but a few hours later I would be back to normal so I didn't give it much thought. Today I was surfing the net looking something up when I came across an article about a lady who worked out 3 weeks a month and then took a week off. She noticed that she lost the most weight the week she didn't exercise. Strange, eh? Well, it turned out she drank too MUCH water. Go figure?! Her body was retaining water the three weeks she worked out and it was eliminated the week she didn't exercise therefore she lost more weight. I t

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Dear Diary, Here's a clue of what's coming up really fast!!!! Yes, Mommy is more excited than the little miss...

Dear Diary, Well, Punxsutawney Phil , the American cousin of Wiarton Willy, saw his shadow this morning so that means six more weeks of winter. I'm OK with it if this is winter, bring it on ! PS - Happy Birthday my Ziggy!! The big boy is now 11 years old. (Mom & Dad, you better not have forgotten...)

Dear Diary, Saturdays are the busiest days of the week, are they not? With Isla having swimming lessons until Feb 21, we have to schedule our outings around her lessons. They are going well and she loves them! This week she learned how to go below the water but the little miss wasn't co-operating, she refused to close her eyes. Work in progress but she went down the slide with her daddy. Here are some photos: After swimming we went to the park for a bit of fun... The last photo is a bit funny. Colorado grass in January is apparently rather prickly and the little miss didn't like it all, she cried. Poor girl... We went home for a spot of lunch and rather than go back to the gym (I was there at 8:45) for strength training together as we originally planned, we couldn't resist the summer weather and decided to go for another walk and pick up a few things from the store. By this time Isla was exhausted but she fought sleep, as usual. She finally slept after so

Dear Diary, Time for my weekly excuse. It's becoming all to common the last few weeks but I promise myself to change that starting today! Including this morning, I've been to the gym twice this week. It wasn't that I didn't feel like it I just couldn't. I had some nasty headaches. I felt sick to my stomach and all I wanted to do was sleep however with an 11 month old, that's impossible during the day unless she's sleeping. I think it was caused by the fluctuation in barometric pressure. So I didn't go at all and I was kinda good with my eating so I didn't gain weight again, just maintained. The plan for the coming week is go at least 4 times first thing in the morning before Colin goes to work. I've cut down my cardio time to 30 mins. for the week and I'll bring up to 35 mins. the next week but I should still be able to get 2 hours in this week. A little story from yesterday. The weather was summer-like again and I really wanted

Dear Diary, Although she is tolerated by Pearl.... .... Isla's love for the cats is not reciprocated by Dixie. Pearl, Isla & Dixie Sorry for the dark fuzzy photos but they looked much better on the camera after I took them!!!!

Dear Diary, HELP! I'm struggling. I knew it was too good to be true when the scale told me I was down an additional 4 lbs. last week. I must've weighed myself on a very empty, shrivelled up stomach and no blood coarsing through my veins. I haven't been able to get back to that weight since I posted about it. But I'm not going to change my ticker on the right of the blog because I'm determined to reach 12 lbs. by the end of the week. If I don't reach my target, I'll change it to reflect my actual weight. For the last three days I've been up and down on the scale between 167 and 169. There is no consistency. Why? I think part of my answer to that question is because I've been a bad snacker last week and even up to yesterday. Today I am determined to put that bad habit behind me and kick things up a notch, AGAIN! I tell ya, losing weight is hard work! The treadmill is getting boring and I think I'll start some DVD's at home for a ch