The Best Way to Stay Accountable

I figured something out last night: if I tell my 4 year-old that we are going to exercise, she won't let me NOT do it. Once you tell her someting, it is pretty much set in stone (this is why we never tell her when we are going to see her cousins until we are packing up to leave...heaven forbid we tell her the day before and we wake up to one of us being sick!). She was hopping around last night saying she wanted to exercise. I then said that we could exercise together and even dance a bit. She got very excited and talked about it the whole time until I put the Zumba DVD on (we did "Rush" which is only ~25 minutes). She got in my  way a bit, but she was so cute trying to do the moves. It was a lot of fun and I still broke a major sweat. She kept yelling out, "Mommy, we're doing it!". So cute! We got to do something together and I got my workout in before she went to bed which meant I actually got to relax after she and her sister were down for the night. I sat down to watch "The Biggest Loser" feeling satisfied that I had done what they preach (even some exercise is better than none).

Falling Off the Wagon...

Argh! Since coming home from my trip I have done no workouts and my eating choices have been a bit all over the place. Add in that I was sick this weekend and am still suffering a scratchy throat with a developing cough, I am not happy about how things are going. So, I am going to wait until next month to check my measurements (there's no point if I haven't put in the effort to whittle away the inches). I am gonna get this going, I swear! I went shopping yesterday and once again got a lot of great food (salad greens, meat, fruit, veggies, etc...). I think I will do my cooking later at night when the kids are down so that dinner is ready for the next day. Once I start doing that, the eating will become more regulated (and less expensive!).

I also want to get my home in order and purge it of all the unnecessary stuff we have. That will help a lot too because I keep feeling guilty like I should be cleaning stuff out instead of doing other things. I need my physical and psychological health to match ;)