Improving the spacemom Part 2 March 2, 2006
Posted by spacemom in : Spacemom , 2 commentsA while ago, I wrote about improving myself. this is an update, a kind of accountability for that. I have been faithfully working out twice a week at the gym. I have added weights to my routine and I think I am starting to see muscle definition on my arms. I like that.
I have slacked in the eating department. I need to start tracking my calories again. I have lost 6-7 lbs. Only 5-4 more to go. That is great news, except I have been holding here. I stopped tracking my calories and I think that is the biggest thing. I need to do that to make sure I am eating right. To make sure I am not sneaking one too many treats in. I don’t diet in the sense of only eating the grapefruit nonsense. I diet in the sense of making sure I get the most nutrition out of the least amount of calories. Add the exercise in and it is like a science experiment. How many calories in minus how many calories out divided by the ratio of muscle to fat….
In other aspects of my life, I have also been changing. We are slowly changing the house to what we want. That is a nice change. The house we stayed at in Atlanta had such amazing color palates. I went to the Benjamin Moore site and set up color palates for the living room/hallway/staircase. I may end up repainting the stuff I just did. It depends on how much I like the new colors.
When I exercise, I have been reading. I miss that part of my life. I used to be able to sit on the couch on a weekend and read away. That is gone with the kids, but I was able to read on the airplane! and I
read when I exercise. I have finished 5 books this year. A web friend is trying to read 50 books this year. I think that is a great goal. I’ll set my personal goal at 30.
The last improvement is time for Dr. Jay and I. We got an email yesterday that Dr. Tom is giving a talk today. Would we like to join them for dinner at the local Cambodian restaurant? I was able to call a new
babysitter that the girls have met. She said she could come with the 24 hour notice. I am so happy. I am scared to have the girls be with a new sitter, but our current (good) sitter is too far away. She can
only get down her by 6:30 and this dinner is at 6:30. So we are going out tonight, without the girls, on a weeknight on a short notice.
So that’s my update. Slowly, I am getting better with everything. slowly
