Rain, Rain, Go Away...

Yeah, its raining. I get in a funk when it stays gray out for a long time. Were on our second day and I am surprised my mood hasn't changed for the worse. When its cold and wet and yucky I usually want to snuggle up with my knitting and some comfort goodies of the warm and oohey gooey variety. Not so this time. Today I don't feel bad, however I am feeling another strange feeling. For the second day in a row I'm actually missing my walk... and that bums me out.

I have never liked exercise. NEVER. Period. What is this new found love for it that I have? I have been doing my walking and belly dance faithfully and yesterday (because of my foot and the rain) I substituted walking for The Biggest Loser workout on my Wii, which I loved by the way :) I wanted more. What???  Strange, very strange indeed.

Today I am going to do the Wii again and my Bollywood Dance DVD and look like a major fool hopping about with all sorts of jiggling parts (and sooooo NOT in a sexy way jiggling) in front of my honey.  I hope he doesn't eat directly before he witnesses my grand display of the massively unfit and overly large. I wouldn't want him to suffer ill digestion at my expense. The point here is I think this whole fitness thing may have actually sunk in. I mean really the only sweat Id ever let any other human see me break would be when I'm pushin out another baby, and I'm modest even then!

At any rate Im gonna ride this wave of feeling the git up and go before it passes. And hey, with today being hubby's day off its a good thing about the rain, cuz that just means Im stuck inside with the best snuggle mate on the planet :)

Hummmm... do you exercise in front of your significant other?

I'm In Love... Or At The Very Least Awe

I was doing my usual early morning thing, waiting on the baby to wake and having my green tea while I check out up dates from bloggers I follow, and scoping out new ones that catch my eye when it happened. I stumbled across a blog many of you prolly already know about but I LOVE it! It has everything I could ever ask for in my quest for fitness.

Trainer Mama had me hooked from the first paragraph. I am in love with the information, how its put together, the pictures, the food, the recipes... for me it has it all. It was like discovering something I had been looking for that clicked. Earlier on this month in my new lifestyle change I was reading Susan Powters book The Politics of Stupid and although I love the information and I think Susan is dead on with what shes saying, I just *cringe* dont really like her... ummmm... delivery? Or attitude or something.

Any how, while I clicked with Susans philosophy I didn't feel like she was  a good fit for me in the way I would like. I am a person who gets slightly obsessed with something I am focusing on. Ok a lil more than slightly. I love information and tons of it. I read everything I can and enjoy seeking out whats going to best work. I am also a person who needs upbeat and inspiring people to keep my momentum up when I feel less than inspired myself. I think this is what attracts me to the "Blogger" world; the opportunity to read such meaningful articles and posts by people has on more than one occasion gotten my fat rump outta my chair to get fit.

Trainer Mama was an ah-ha! site for me. Like shes the big sister in my fitness family. The sister you always strive to be more like :) Its like the site walks with me hand in hand, showing me cool new exercise things I may not have thought about but would have a blast doing, i.e. weighted Hula Hooping! And what fun for the kids as well! I am hooked on seeing what she eats everyday. I mean every day. We get to see what it is and she provides pictures and recipes! At any rate I hope if you havent dropped by this site you might just go take a peek :) I LOVE IT!!!

Ok, enough raving I'm getting my fat booty up and going to do the Biggest Loser work out game for my Wii. Due to my ouchie foot from yesterday and the fact its raining hard out I am stuck indoors attempting to break a sweat. I haven't tried the B/L workout game yet, Ive watched it, haven't tried it and I'm thinking Jillians going to make me cry.

What are your favorite weight loss blogs/sites?

*goes out singing "Big Girls Don't Cry..."...*