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This afternoon, while I was watching Baseball the kids each came down stairs and sat down to watch with me. It didn’t take long before each was snoring. I guess Melissa really tuckered them out at the splash pad while I was out on my long run this morning. It was so cute I snapped a quick picture with my phone. Instead of use on as my picture and the other as a bonus I thought I’d make them a single picture.
Today was a day of outside fun. After running around during the morning we had a nice BBQ lunch before heading out to the splash pad for the rest of the day. We topped it off with a trip to the local outdoor pool. It was a great way to spend a Saturday.
Today we have a picture of Violet enjoying a nice cup of chocolate milk. We had a nice family dinner while out and about. After the Kids and I met up with mommy down town after work.
Last Friday I stated my plan for getting back on track with my running and by extension my weight loose. As the days slipped by I did find myself running more, I got out for 3 runs since my last Fitness Friday post. Of course over that time I tried to watch what I ate, but it seemed when I had the choice of being good and being bad, I always choose bad. So each morning when I’d get on the scale to get a feel for how I was doing it didn’t look good. Though as Friday approached and I knew I’d have to face the blog I started getting a little better, and with last nights 10.27 run I managed to come in lower than I expected. A lower. This weeks weight is 224 lbs. That’s a loose of 2.5 pounds, a number that is probably unrealistic to expect to repeat next week. I’m thinking about taking fat burners and finding something on the internet, I’ve read about this alpha lean 7 reviews and I’m curious, I could try it out, can I get the same result or more? Unless of course I stop the evening freezer raids for Freezes and the occasional chocolate bar on my way home from work.
The key I’ve been told by many different diet plans is to track my food. Record every thing you eat so that you can see where the calories are coming from. Every morning this week I’ve said today is the day I will log my food, then I’d have a granola bar and a bowl of cereal for breakfast and say, tomorrow I’ll start. Today marks a week of saying that and I know that has to stop, so I look at the calendar and think Monday, have one last weekend without being accountable for what I eat. Or even, why start Monday, the family is heading off on vacation in 3 short weeks, do I really want to track while on vacation? Maybe I should wait till we get back or maybe after my vacation ends and I get back to work?
It’s that kind of thinking that I need to change. I need to start tracking now, I need to stop waiting for tomorrow and start living for today, so I will not wait till my vacation is over, I will not wait till Monday. I wont even wait till tomorrow morning,. Once I’m done this blog post I’ll sit down and write what I’ve had today, as best I can and keep track from then on. To be clear, I am not planning on changing what I eat, not yet at least. What I plan is to write down what I eat, what ever it is. To take owner ship of the calories I’m consuming. Then when I have a log for a week or two, then I’ll begin trying to change what I eat. In the past I’ve not longed because I would eat questionable things, and it was easier to ignore them if they weren’t on paper. That changes now.
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Today we had another trip to the local park, and once again I have a picture of one of my children playing. Today ‘It’s Violet on the slide.
Today I came home to find Violet with her hair done up with bows. She wasted no time to showing me that her Rapunzel dolls here was done up too. So I set them up in her chair and took todays picture of the day.
Summer is a time for playing outside so tonight after dinner, our little family headed out to the little playground near our house to play. After playing a little Jacob got out his bike and chased around after some of his friends. I captured him as he rode past me chasing after them.
Today Violet insisted on bringing her baby and stroller to T-Ball. Of course that meant most of the time she ignored it and I had to carry it. Though I did get today’s picture of the day while she walked away from me pushed her baby.
Today we look at Toronto Transit Tracker. A handy app that uses real-time information about when the next streetcar will arrive. the next Streetcar will be arriving. There are 3 tabs to the application, Favourites, Streetcar and Map.
Today we wrapped up the long weekend with Mommy a little under the weather, so to help out, I packed the kids up in the wagon and headed to the local Domino’s to get dinner. Got to love the $5 walk-in pizza deal.