Day 10 - a tenth of the way there

I'm terrible at getting anything done towards this on Saturdays. It's 11:30pm and I just now did my pushups(12 of them) and that is all that I did. I kept meaning to get to my ab exercises, but I just never did. It seems to be hard to get around to it with the kids home all day. A lame excuse. I'll do better next Saturday, I promise.

Today's weight, taken at 11:40pm is 268.8lbs...oh yes and I just ate some chocolate chip mint ice cream...and probably more than I should have...

Day 9

Today's weight, taken at 7:30am, is 266.2lbs.

I didn't get up to exercise this morning. I kinda didn't get up right when my alarm went off and then next thing I know it's almost 7am, too late to start now. I'm kinda not sad about that, because last night at bed time, I promised my son that today when Ella was napping we would play with his trains, just him and I. And now because I didn't get up early and exercise I wont feel like I need to have a nap. First thing after breakfast this morning, the boy asked me if Ella was tired because he wanted to play trains. I told him he would just have to wait for Ella to take her nap. I'm hoping that maybe during Ella's afternoon nap that I'll get my work out in, even though all the other kids will be home from school. We'll see how it goes.

This weeks measurements;

Chest 51
waist 50.5"
Hip 54"
Arm 13.75"
Thigh 28.5"
Calf 16.25"

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..Later that day....
So her it is 10:26pm and I am now just finishing up my work out. Better late than never.
For interest sake I just stepped on the scale and it read 268.8lbs

Day 8

Today's weight, taken at 7:30am, is 266.8lbs.
So it seems that there is some progress being made. SO very tired this morning. I really need to work at getting to bed earlier. It's so hard for me, as I am a natural night owl. And there are always so many things to get done once the kids are all in bed. Since I've been doing this I have been having a nap and that doesn't help with the going to bed earlier. But I am too tired to make it through the day with out a nap. James usually comes and hangs out with me in my bed and plays games on my phone. Sometimes he even naps with me. I guess I'm still getting sleep. But it would be nice to use that time when Ella is napping to spend some one on one time with James instead of sleeping...So some how I'm going to have to get this all sorted out.

See you tomorrow.

ps Today I did 12 pushups. It nearly killed me to get the 12 in, but that might have had something to do with the 11 month old trying to climb on my back.

Day 7

Got up this morning without a hitch. Kathryn has been getting up with me. She's awesome. She told me that she'd be my sidekick to keep me in gear. Today we did something different. We worked out to a DVD. It's one that I have used a number of time, so I am used to the routines. Kathryn was struggling to keep up, much like I did the first few times that I tried working out to it. We'll keep at it though, and before I know it she'll be kicking my butt. It was a great work out and I really felt like I had accomplished something. We'll be doing it again tomorrow. In fact, I might just replace riding my bike for a video work out. It's much more enjoyable and I feel like I get more out of it. When the weather gets nice, then we'll start riding outside.

Today's weight: 268.2, taken at 9:25pm.

Day 6

It's 8:44am and I haven't yet done my workout (although I did just shovel the driveway and sidewalk...that must count for something). I was up in plenty of time to do it, the problem was, I was up with a sick baby, that just wanted me to hold her. Once I had her asleep again at about 6am, I tried to lay her down so that I could do my work out, but she woke up and just cried. So I held her instead. Now she is finally asleep in her own bed, and I know that I could totally do a workout, but I am so tired that I just can't bring my self to do it right at this moment, even though it may be the only time I'll have a chance to do it today. So I sit here having an argument discussion with myself about the pros and cons of not doing it right now. But even as I do so, my eyelids are drooping, and I am having a hard time staying awake...so nap time it is. And I'll just have to see what the rest of today brings. As much as I want to stick to my 100 day goal, a sick baby trumps everything else. So I am going to just have to be OK with this and not let guilt set in.

See you tomorrow

Day 5

Yesterday was my rest day, so there was nothing to report.

Today was legs and hips day....ouch. First little miss Ella was up at 5:50 this morning. My alarm was set to go off at 6:15, and of course she wasn't interested in just going back to sleep, So I was up extra early. My legs are still killing me from Friday's work out so I wasn't able to do a full set of most of the exercises, but I gave it my all.  Fun stuff. I then went and rode my bike for 10 minutes. I know I wanted to do 20min, but I'm just going to have to work up to that.

Today I added my two push ups making it an even 10. The last one  was a little tricky but I was able to do it.
Weighing in today at 271.6lbs, taken at 8am. Got a long ways to go. But I'll just keep at it.

See you tomorrow.