Active!!

So here is an update on the moobs (man-boobs)... I gotta say that I am still a solid "A Cup" but the moobs should be scared!!

Jeremie and I started the South Beach Diet last week. It is rough and it takes A LOT of work and a lot of shopping!! I have never eaten so many vegetables in one week in my entire life!! It seems like I spend all of my times preparing meals because they are all chock full of vegetables so I have to spend a year and a day cutting, steaming, sautee-ing and what not. The work is worth it though! I lost 6 pounds in one week and I am already down another 2 pounds in week 2! Next monday we get to move on to Phase II of the diet which reintroduces bread. Most people are excited about that and while I LOVE bread I have found that I miss sugar the most! I don't only miss it... I have intense cravings for it! I dream of sugar, sugar, sugar!! We can have Splenda or sugar substitutes, but it just isn't the same. =( As much as I miss it I just think of my results over the past week and that helps keep things in focus!

So... many of you know about my love/hate relationship with my Wii Fit game. It is good times and I really do enjoy it, but there is only so many times that you can take little Japanese child voices telling you that you are obese before you get a massive complex!! Not only do they call you obese but it has a really condescending tone and your little Mii character gets squatty and fat when they say it. Plus... when you step on the balance board for the first time... it. groans. IT GROANS!! Like I am some giant whale that is going to break it because I way 16 tons!!

Anyhoo... I got the Wii Active for super cheap at Costco the other day and tried it for the first time. It took less time than the regular workout on the Fit and I sweat a million times more! I put it on the low impact setting, but got the perfect workout for somemone as out of shape as I am! Plus.. the trainers are very encouraging throughout and I know that it is dumb, but sometimes it is nice to hear that you are doing a good job as opposed to being snickerd at behind your back by Japanese children.

So... MOOBS WATCH OUT! I am on the 30 day challenge on the Active and the diet has produced incredible results thus far. Your days are numbered moobs. Mark my words, your days are numbered!

Hibernation....

Well... It's that time again!! The Olympics are on again so I will be going into hibernation for the next 2 weeks!!

I don't know why I enjoy the Olympics so much, but they have been something I have looked forward to ever since I can remember. I think it has something to do with the fact that my father is a sports nut and he always enjoyed the Olympics so I was exposed to them at a very young age, but more to do with the fact that I am ultra competitive!! =)

I get kind of annoyed when I remember that I had to read in a book... when I was in SECOND grade... that my own first cousin was an Olympian and one of the elite divers of the world in his day. No one ever told me that and that is kind of lame. You'd think that would be something that is mentioned every now and again, but no. I had to read about it in school. Anyhoo... he was also the US Diving judge at the Beijing Olympics so the tradition continues and gives me a personal connection to the olympics.

I am sure that I will really geek out about something that I see or read about in the next two weeks that I will post here so stay tuned for Dave's Super-Duper-Olympic-Geek Blog for the next 2 weeks.