It's Only Tuesday and I'm Exhausted

Welcome to hell week. Things have been crazy around work and I couldn’t find a minute to post yesterday. Posting on weekends is a slim to none chance anyway, but I can usually find a couple of minutes through the week – not yesterday! I was wrung out by the time I got home. Of course, Katie decided it was a good night to stay up late and cry unless Mommy was the one holding her. I think kids have this built-in radar that says, “Ooooh, Mommy’s exhausted. Let’s see if we can make her go insane and nudge her right over the cliff unless she lets me cling to her like a giant mollusk.” God bless them … LOL.

Tomorrow is my weigh and measure day. I do it the first of every month – check scale weight and body fat %, then take my chest, waist, hips, upper arm and thigh measurements. I think I did okay this month and I’ll be happy with the results. I didn’t mess up very much at all on my eating plan (unless we count the experiment from hell) and didn’t skip any workouts. I think I deserve at least an “A” for effort :)

I’ll post results tomorrow and hopefully I’ll be able to talk about some of the stuff I read on Tom’s web site over the weekend. I started going through some of his back archives and catching up on stuff. As a former member of Curves, I was stunned to find out one of their 30-minute workouts only burns approximately 184 calories. If you follow their recommended only three times a week exercise schedule, that’s only 552 calories burned through exercise in a week. Do you realize that’s only about two slices of pizza? Good God, no wonder I wasn’t getting anywhere. However, he did have some positive things to say about their program that I’ll share with you tomorrow.

Back to the grindstone …