Don't Eat That

You see, I’ve been doing my best to curb my eating habits while I can’t chew.  Instead what I have found is that I prefer milkshakes to yogurt any day.  And, my husband was dead set that we would have a sliding door off of our kitchen so we could grill out without having to heard around the whole house.

Me?  I didn’t really care one way or another.  The best part was that if we were grilling, he was cooking.  But, as it is now, he is cooking anyway because when you can’t chew, it’s just wrong to make a girl cook, don’t you think? 

So, when the house plans are drawn up for the next house, and lets face it, we will outgrow this one sooner than later, if we haven’t already, we will have a a doorway in the kitchen and we will have one more big grill on the deck off the kitchen.  Happy grilling is all I have to say!

Yes, I know, you are wondering how in the heck I know that right?  I mean, yes, I’ve been sitting on my ever growing backside since January and the housework has mostly just remained un-done.  Yea, is that a word?  Un-done?

Honestly, my mom tried for a while but the fact of the matter is, my husband is spoiled.  He is very spoiled and my mother was not the person who spoiled him and she wasn’t near as amused as the cleaning lady was.  The cleaning lady quit.  My mom?  She finally gave up too. 

It’s basically impossible to keep things picked up with two kids and a husband.  However, my husband has become quite the supervisor of our children’s bedrooms and toy room so I convinced him that it was time to practice what he preached. 

So, yesterday, I put my tennis shoes on and we re-arranged furniture, put the kids in separate rooms, gave away a bunch of toys and clothes and I started working on the laundry.  Did I mention that my mom gave up on that as well? 

Today, I put my tennis shoes back on and I hit the laundry, the dishes (it only took me two and one half hours) and I got busy cleaning.  My husband looked at me like I had lost my mind both times I put my shoes on to work in the house.  Basically, the rule is we take our shoes off at the front door.  But, with my healing leg/ankle, it’s nearly impossible for me to get around even in my Croc flip-flops which I love.  The four times I’ve sprained the other ankle, I wasn’t wearing tennis shoes.

And, so, finally, I collapsed in my chair about an hour ago.  And, then I remember, I had not had any food all day.  So, when I got up to search for some grub (and not the ice cream my husband brought home from the store earlier), I was aching, I could barely walk.  My bad foot hurting although I did wear my shoes, my right foot swollen from the latest ankle accident, my back aching from just purely not being used to so much hard labor (ahahaha I just called washing dishes and doing laundry hard labor – what?  It took me about 4 hours yesterday and another 4 or 5 today?)

Anyway, it is time to put those tennis shoes on and get busy with some physical therapy and then hit my EASports 30 Day Challenge come September 1st.  And, heck, why not?  I’ll be 41 just a couple of days later.  Why not ring in 41 with some exercising as opposed to the mono and broken bones, diabetes and thyroid disorder that the ripe age of 40 was so kind enough to bring to me.

So, ladies and gentleman, let’s get ready to rumble……

I made the decision that the broken foot/leg would not allow me to be stopped from participating in the EASports.  My goal was to go through the exercises for my upper body, have a good time and then as soon as my foot was given the "go for the gusto" from my doctor, I’d be ready to hit the challenge and I was aiming for July 1st for that.

Well, it’s addictive people.  I get over there, I am going to watch my kids and husband play a little bit and of course, they are all doing their stuff standing up.  I have to show them just have tough I am at doing the same exercises sitting down.

Now, here’s the pisser………….and you are not going to believe this.  But, I played for almost an hour an a half.  I was so excited to see my calorie’s burned and my graph and all that jazz and guess what?

My sweet adorable husband didn’t switch the profiles over before giving me  the controls and I was so excited to show them how I could kick their tales that I didn’t even think about it.

So, just for the record, I have 120 calories burned as a 6′ 220 pound man instead of myself and surely that should count for something…..yea?

I was stoked about the whole EASports ordeal.  I mean heck, I still am, but anyway, the first day I broke open the box, my whole family went bizerk.  I am bragging on twitter about how much I like it and active_girl from EASports sends me this tweet

“@jareason whoa! Be careful – do not kill yourself. It will still be around for when you’re better!”

And, I was like oh girl, we are fine, we are having fun, this is great.  I mean, even boxing and playing volleyball from my chair was a freakin’ blast.

And, most of my posts so far have been long, this one want me because…….I’ve spent the day in tears with pain meds flowing through my veins.  Apparently even though I was in the chair, I had my muscles tensed up and dear lord the pain.  So, I skipped today even though my 30 day challenge didn’t tell me today was a rest day, it had to be a rest day.

So, tomorrow, I’ll try again with a little less  intensity and see what happens…….I have some Amazon money saved up and I am thinking about order Wii Fit but then I think…it will taunt me and my foot has to get well before I can do that….so I’m going to buy a comforter instead, lol.

OH  well, her girl can’t have money just burning her pocketbook like that, geez.

Ok, so all the zeal in the world would convince you how much I love this stuff.  I mean, happy, zeal, excited, thrilled, and every other word in the thesaurus couldn’t keep you posted on my excitement.

I started to write a second post on day one but decided not because….well I was exhausted.  First of all, I challenged my husband to do the boxing.  Not thinking that it was not going to be as hard for him as it was for me because…duh I was sitting in a chair.  But, I let him handle it standing up and well….he didn’t look near as goofy as I felt like I looked.  And, trust me, I looked goofy enough that I didn’t share the video with you.

So, moving right along. You know you are old as dirt when you enjoying yourself on the EASports and your husband is enjoying it and you look over…and your children are in the floor busting a gut laughing at you.

Well, so there, bust a gut boy but we had a blast.  And apparently they thought it looked like fun because when I broke it out for day 2….those 2 adorable hyena’s had to give it a try.

And, they were pretty doggone good at it considering.

So, I had to give it a whirl again and I liked it even more on day two when I did a lot of game skills in stead of a lot of “real” exercise type activities.

Now, you’ve never witnessed hilarity until you see a woman with a broken leg in a desk chair shooting hoops and bumping and setting in volleyball.

But the boxing?

Nothing is funnier than my kids trying to box.  We have boxing on our Wii Sports but we have never let them use it but I am here to tell you, I was the one in the floor about to bust a gut laughing over their skills.

At least we were all on equal ground.