Sunday Stats

A nice gentle day on Sunday. Grocery shopping and date night with hubby. Ethan stayed with his grandma for the afternoon and from all reports had a fun time while we went to see a movie (Red 2, almost as good as the first, I want to grow up to be Victoria (Helen Mirren) ) and had my first free meal in a while. Raisinettes at the movie, guacamole burger at Chili's and some frozen custard for dessert. I actually didn't finish the custard in the end.

Saturday Stats

Stats for Saturday:

Busy day overall, apart from my workout (previous post) I kept on my feet as much as I could doing housework or running around after Ethan.

Actual weight loss has been minimal this week but I think that's because of the weights etc. I've lost 2" off my waist so something is being done right. I've always noticed that the day after a hard workout I'll rarely see a scale drop, I've always assumed its muscles retaining water.

Here we go again

In the last 4 months I crossed the pond again. Living back in Louisiana, it's not something I had hoped for but we shall make the best of it since this is where life has led us.

I started a new job as a Programmer/Systems Analyst with a health insurance company who is very keen on it's employees personal health so we are encouraged in all sorts of ways. We have a pull up bar in the office and I work on the 7th floor so lots of stairs there. I also took one of my kettlebells in last week and plan on throwing some swings in on a regular basis since the rest of the time I am kicked back at my desk.


I finally got my withings scale and i got my body media armband back out of storage so let the geekery commence.

My bells are still my weapon of choice and I'm logging food on my fitness pal. You can also find me on fitocracy these days which is a favourite for logging workouts. Username is Morkai as usual :).

 

Sat workout - swing & snatch ladders courtesy of Tracy Reifkind.

12kg bell

• 1 swing, 1 transfer, 1 swing, 1 transfer (1sw, 1tr, 1sw, 1tr)
• 2sw, 1tr, 2sw, 1tr
• 3sw, 1 tr, 3sw, 1tr
• 4sw, 1 tr, 4sw, 1tr
• 5sw, 1tr, 5sw, 1tr

30 sec rest

• 1 snatch, 1 transfer, 1 snatch, 1 transfer
• 2sn, 1tr, 2sn, 1tr
• 3sn, 1 tr, 3sn, 1tr
• 4sn, 1 tr, 4sn, 1tr
• 5sn, 1tr, 5sn, 1tr

2nd rotation - repeated above going up to 6

3rd rotation - reversed the ladders, 6 down to 1

4th rotation - 5 down to one




Smoked :)

 

Time Flies

Ethan was 14 months old last Saturday. 

As has been pointed out to me my blog has been somewhat neglected. How to fit just over a year into one post? Wow.. what an adventure. 

My precious bobble head is growing up. Looking back at my last post and the pic of him at 6 weeks, he has changed so much. It's wonderful and sad all at the same time. I want to hold that precious little 8lb baby again and yet I am delighted to see my little munchkin dashing around the flat giggling and getting into as much mischief as he can.

He's walking now, took his first steps the day after his first birthday. He's got 8 teeth, all the front ones, weighs 19lbs and is stinkingly cute.

He started nursery in December, currently going 3 days a week it's been a good socializing time for him and they also get up to much more fun, messy play than Mummy does. We've had some of his first artwork home as well. 

Valentines Day

Mothers Day was March 10th in the UK

March 15th was Red Nose Day, our most popular national charity fund raising event.  

Clutching Wenlock and Mandeville; The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Mascots

Still breastfeeding, will keep that up till he is two most likely as the World Health Organization recommends. Still in his cloth nappies, they've been wonderful and I don't regret them for a minute. He spent one week in disposables recently due to a rather nasty bout of nappy rash and I spent every day checking his nappy every 30 seconds cause they stunk. 

I am definitely becoming a happy hippie Mum and have fallen in love with the Unconditional Parenting methodologies taught by Dr Laura Markham and Alfie Kohn. 

My personal health and fitness has been slow going but I think I am finally making some strides in the right direction. Given that Ethan has suddenly discovered my belly button and insists on poking it I have a little more inspiration to get it as flat as possible :) I've been doing a Tai Chi Program called Tai Cheng. I've been a follower and fan or Dr Cheng for a long time now and I'm loving this program. Had an urge to learn Tai Chi for a long time and this is fitting the bill nicely. 

I'll leave you with Ethan's first dancing attempts