The First Post

This is the first post in a series I'd like to think of as the flip side of  Brent's Healthy Blog.  You won't find any fancy charts and graphs of my journey nor will I be posting my daily weight.  Here you will read about a fat girl's journey to getting fit, the good, the bad and the humorous.

A little bit about me.  I am an awesome mom with two great kiddos. I work in HR and I really like what I do. My architect husband enjoys biking, hiking and all things that torture me.  Truth be told, I hold him back, but he loves me anyway. He's only lost me in the woods once, so I keep slowly following him up the trails, barely breathing.

Brent has registered for some insane bike ride that will either kill him the weekend he turns 40 or be the greatest accomplishment he has done.  With all his training, I felt the need to also eat better and try again on the losing weight thing.   Next thing I know we join a Health Club and they just have to go and make it so easy, so easy, to actually fit working out in to your life.  Childcare center, cafe, spa, rockwall, incredible pool, yoga, oh, and they sold me on this thing called TEAM Weightloss.

Three Weeks Later, I am going to the gym to my class three times a week and learning that almost everything I thought I knew about food was a lie.  A part of TEAM Weightloss is a nutrition class.  So I bring home all sorts of crazy ideas and Brent is lovingly following along. 

Breakfast: Mango/berry/spinach/carrot/protein powder shake

Snack:  Nuts and Jerky (Not My and Brent's Nicknames)

Lunch:  Tried a gluten free tortilla wrap with turkey, lettuce etc. - This tasted like ass.  When I said so, Caitlin asked why I had ever tasted butt before.  Good point my daughter, good point.  I ended up unrolling it and putting it in a sun dried and tomato tortilla, I am assuming with gluten.

Workout:  50 minutes on the Treadmill, while Brent and the kids went to the rock wall at the club.  While walking (alive) I Watched an episode of the Walking Dead. It was so good, not the walking, sillies, the show.  It made those last 15 minutes a breeze since the episode was crazy!

Dinner:  Disaster - Attempted Artichokes which required watching YouTube videos to figure out how to prepare, cook and eat.  Note to self, if we have to do all of that it's probably not for us.  Who decided to eat this thorny thing?  I told Brent that I imagine that early man was out of all their other food and desperately grabbed this thorny bulb and ate it.  Conclusion - we are not artichoke eaters.


Keep coming back for my updates.

Lisa