Where do Fat Women Exercise?

We signed up at a health club this last week and I’m already discouraged.

First of all even though I have been riding my stationary bike at home and using my Gazelle a couple of times a week I obviously have not been putting enough effort into it.

10 minutes on an elliptical machine and I’m breathing like a fish out of water. Last Thursday I spent 15 minutes on a recumbent bike and my legs hurt so bad on Friday I could hardly get out of bed.

I guess I really do need to go the gym cause I’m in far worse shape than I thought.

Which leads me to my second discouragement; so far I am the only fat person I have seen at the gym. Well fat female person, I have seen a couple of hefty guys but not any women or girls who look as if they hit the plus size department for clothes. I mean surely there are other heavy women that go to the gym. Most of the females I have seen while not stick thin are certainly not fat, heavy, or even very plump.

Sigh! I feel very inadequate at the gym and only hope if I keep going I will feel better about myself, improve my fitness level, and shed at least a few of these extra pounds.
I really need to start back to Weight Watchers too, but there are only so many hours in the day and I’m already stretched to the limit, maybe when school is out for the summer I can sign up for a few months and see what kind of results I have.

Play Along

Got this from Angie W's blog. I haven't posted for a few days and thought this was fun.

Current Clothing: Blue Jeans and long sleeve red t-shirt with denim collar and cuffs.

Current Hair: Usual curly mess with black head band holding it away from my face. Also roots are showing, made an appointment today to have it touched up. Gotta color that gray.

Current Mood: Tired, dreading tomorrow cause it’s the start of my workweek.

Current Refreshment: Bottle of water

Current Annoyance: BIL!!!!!!

Current Avoidance: Laundry, school work that needs graded

Current Smell: None

Current Thing You Ought to be Doing: Laundry, grading, oh and maybe I should be thinking about what’s for dinner

Current Thing or Things on Your Wall: In this room ... calendar, clock, really cool painting of setting sun over mountains –we picked this picture up in a market in San Antonio, the artist painted it with cans of spray paint and it is awesome, also needle point pic with the Preamble to the Constitution on it, and my cork board with lots of stuff on it.

Current IM person You’re Talking to: None, I don’t really IM people very often.

Current Jewelry: Wedding ring on left hand, Amethyst ring Toby bought me for Christmas about five years ago on the right hand ring finger, simple gold chain …. All jewelry I wear everyday.

Current Book: A Darker Crimson by Carolyn Jewel. So far so good, but I haven’t had much time to read this week.

Now you play along!

What a Way to End My Day

What a way to end my birthday!

The 19yos, who should know better, was swing a pole around in the bedroom. I know, I know, but don’t ask me, I’m just a clueless female. Anyway, he managed to hit the 15yos, right across the nose.

Yep, you guessed it! Blood and gore was the result!

So I wrapped up my birthday playing Dr. Mom. After cleaning and disinfecting the area, I found one cut and one pretty deep scratch. They took forever to quit bleeding, but I made the executive decision that no stitches were required and steri-stripped the cut.

Oh, the glamorous life of the mother of four boys, oh uh better make that five, can’t forget to include the Dh *bg*

Well it’s official! I’m going to be a MIL.

My oldest son asked his girlfriend to marry him yesterday and gave her a beautiful ring. I guess like father like son since my Dh gave me a ring on Valentine’s Day too, 24 years ago.

They didn’t set a date yet, but I’m thinking it will most likely be sometime this summer.
She has to graduate from high school and they need to find a place to live. My son still lives at home and as much as I love his girlfriend they are not living with us. We already have six people sharing one bathroom, and I really don’t think it would handle seven.

I’m very happy for them but it kinda makes me feel old. Before I know it I’ll be a grandma. Of course my Mom was already a grandma twice over by the time she was my age.

Oh and Happy Birthday to Me! Yes today is my birthday!

Why?

Why I am doing this? Good question! It seems to be the thing to do these day although how faithful I'll be is an even bigger question. I must have at least a dozen journals around the house that were started with good intentions but written in only a few times or very sporadically and then abandoned. hhmmmm how do I get this thing to start a new paragraph. I can see this is going to be a learning experience.