Dear Lord..

Barbara Streisand's "Duck Sauce" The worst part is..its catchy and easy to learn..
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Still Kickin

I've missed a couple days of blogging, I've never been very good at that..but I'm still keeping up with my exercising!
I'm down six pounds, that three pounds a week which is a pretty decent amount.. If I keep this pace I could be at my goal weight of 180lbs by Feb 2014 I'd be turning 30. =)
You know I've always talked to myself about skinny people eating mcdonalds.. the ones that don't exercise, etc but.. so what, who cares?
I'm not skinny and even if its not fair that's life. Besides I bet those skinny girls don't eat mcdonald's three times a week..
I am happy to say that today I had candy for the first time in about two months.. and didn't eat nearly as much.
I also joined postcrossing.com, sending post cards all over the world. Keeping busy..

I also upped my sweat points quota on Just Dance 3 from 500 fresh start to the intermediate level of 1000 points a day and last night I danced for an hour! worked off 2400+ points.
I'm slowly getting better~

Good Day.

Today I ate way too much...but I also swam for an hour and walked for an hour and a half at the faire..spent a little too much money but its gone, I had fun, so no point worrying about it.
I've been working on my Day Zero project list, this blog and now I've added another activity.. restarting my food diary on caloriecount.com
Today I've eaten almost 2500 calories and I'm not even done yet(I bought ice cream!)
I'm also missing alot of key nutritional points, but this is the beginning and this is to tell me what I need to work on. So here we go.

Loot from Faire:
1 Pink Dog
1 Pink Pig
I technicolor light saber. Whoo!

I also went to the thrift store today, picked up a new pair of pants, two shirts, some hair ties and a pair of shoes. $8. =)

Video Proof!

So today I decided to present video proof that I am exercising.. This is the video of me playing the Regular version of Wii Fit + Hoola hoops. I stepped up my Wii workout from ten minutes to 15 including strength and yoga exercises now.Vid 1 I've also revamped and relaunched my Day Zero Project, which can be found here. If you guys make any lists feel free to add me! Day Zero

Soreness.

The Wii Board Remembers. I can tell that this is going to help encourage me. I stepped onto the wii fit + board today and the first thing it said was "Too busy to excercise yesterday Rebecca?" Okay..that's mean.. First of all I excercised my fat ass off and second..wait.. am I actually defending myself to a Nintendo product?
The truth is, yesterday was a Just Dance 3 Fiasco that I kinda of liked. I picked what I thought was a three song set and danced away, even did the steps, starting to jump.. although a tiny part of me screams with the windows shake.. <,< After five songs I was tired but I was determined to finish the set! It couldn't be that bad, right? By the time Whitney came home I was glaring at the tv and by song seven I finally called it quits with a primal shout of "Fuck you Just Dance!" Turns out that sweat set? Was non stop.. and my 7-day goal of 500 "Sweat points?" Yeah I did that..five times over. Needless to day today is a break. I know I just started but I also know I'm severely out of shape.. I checked in and did ten minutes of Wii fit though.
Another great thing about Wii Fit? Today I scored a 26 "Wii Fit Age" Down from 34! I'm sure it will flucuate from test to test but its good to know I'm not a total write-off. The tips of the day are nice too. Today I learned that while hot showers will wake you up, showering for too long can actually raise blood pressure.. I guess I won't be taking so many of those long hot bubble baths anymore...

One thing that concerns me, is that I've gone from one extreme to the other. Either I will over eat, or under eat. Even though yesterday I slept in four hour intervals due to..personal issues I still didn't eat enough. Two cups of Oatmeal and a poached egg is barely a meal, let alone an entire days intake, but you don't have to get on me about it. I know.
Today I've only had two hot dogs to eat but I have had a huge glass of this fruit pulp that Whitney bought. Its a hippy thing, but it taste good and the Wii board says natural sugars and protien after a work out are key! ...The Wii Board says.. this is getting surreal..
Oh, and I had Kraft Dinner-didn't eat the whole box..ate alot of it, but not the whole box.
Now I'm gonna have another poached egg and score some of that juice before it goes bad(the fridge finally died and we're waiting on a new one)..then decide whether or not to do Just Dance 3.. I wanna do the whole seven days but...uugh.

Testing One, Two, Three.

Entry 1. This is day three of my weight loss .. I don't want to say attempt because that implies failure and.. I CAN'T fail at this. Lately I've been feeling 'Just like mom.' Not in a good way.. I find myself bitter and easily frustrated, or I will notice my movements are constricted. Mom died at 52... her grand daughter wasn't even in kindergaten... She had Heidi when she was 26. I'm 28 and I don't see any children in my immeadiate future... but the average life span of my generation is 100.. That's what I would say.. My mother was the third youngest of thirteen children.. the second to die. Now I'm not saying my mother died of neglect, though towards the end she was on so many medications a healthy die was the last thing on her mind.. My mother tried diets, wait loss plans. Excercise.. everything but gastric bypass. She wasn't a lazy woman.. she worked two, sometimes three jobs. She..was not lazy.. But I am. That needs to change. So This isn't a weight loss blog..this is a Quest to save and prolong my life. I can't fail or the world will end.. at least for me. Too Early. I have to live a long and happy life, for my mother and for myself. I've been catching myself saying things aren't 'fail' or "never easy" so I said to myself "So What?" If like was easy dropping fifty pounds wouldn't be considered a success story..it would be ordinary. So what if I can't find batteries for the remote, the VCR doesn't want to work with the tv.. Too Fucking bad. On Saturday I got up and I stumbled upon a faded VHS tape. Richard Simmons Sweatin to the Oldies. My mom loved these tapes, she had the whole set and loved Richard Simmons, I used to do the tapes with her. At the time I set it aside and got to thinking about it.. then I decided I'm gonna use it! So what if its dorky? I was so excited! I..hooked up the tv and the VCR/DVD combo..but I didn't have a remote! So I fiddled with the menu, nothing. I found the old Phillips universal remote.. it didn't work.. Each step made me frustrated and I wanted to say fuck it but I didn't, I couldn't. Called Phillips, got the code, programmed the remote, turned on the tv and.... the VCR wouldn't work.. I could have cried.. sat down, moped for a minute then remembered, mom had two.. Bless that woman for her love of prerecorded entertainment. Second one worked like a charm and after all the rummaging through boxes, lifting trunks and putting things away I was already bushed..but I did twenty minutes worth. I decided to set up Whitney's Wii, and Xbox in the livingroom, hopeful she wouldn't get mad (she wasn't) and started Wii Fit +. Its great, just from two 2 minute yoga lessons I could feel a differences.. My Wii Fit body age was 34! Not good.. but Sunday I went back and did 10 minutes of excercises (Each one is approx 2-3 minutes) and Whitney came home. That was when I found Just Dance 3! The thing I like about Wii Fit and Just Dance? They both have work out programs and goals. Just Dance 3 only has a 7-Day schedule but Wii fit let's me set up to a year. I picked six months and a twenty pound drop(That's the highest it would go). Now its day three. I haven't touched Sweatin to the Oldies because Just dance calculates my progress, but I do plan to mix it up. Tomorrow I'm excited to try Strength Training.. So that's where I stand right now, this is more a recap for myself so I can track my progress and I know I'm wordy, so to anyone who read all of this, thank you. Activity for today: Just Dance: 6+ songs. Goal is 500 'Sweat Points' actual amount done 2700+ (That's the last time I think Sweat is a routine.. damn you nonstop.. It was good to push myself as far as I could go though!) Food eaten today: 2 Cups of Peaches and Cream Oatmeal. 1 Poached egg. Future Plan for the day: I wanna make a gameboy dress when I'm skinny.