"Find Your Strong!"

This is a good motto for me today because I think I actually did it.  I think I just might have found my inner strength.  When my alarm went off this morning and instead of hitting snooze (10 times) I told myself that "no one else to going to run the fat off" and I got up and did a workout.  I started with workout #2 and then finished with #3.  I felt really good during #2 and it seemed to fly by, but I think that was more due to the fact that during the walking / catch my breath part I was searching Foxtel for shows to record and boy did I find a blast from the past.........

The treadmill isn't the only thing that causes me to catch my breath :)

After finding my 21 Jump Street gem to record I finally found what I was actually looking for - The Biggest Loser on channel 10, USA series and not sure what season, but I haven't seen it yet.  It was on a few weeks ago on a Sunday, but the past few weeks something else like the racing has been on and those things take allllllll day.  Anyhooo, I have found it again and am excited - easy to please I guess.

The second half of my workout didn't seem to go as fast, but at least I made it and without any changes so I was really happy with that.  I was about ready to fall off the treadmill at the end, but noticed that I wasn't far off the 6 kms so I just kept going till I got there.  I felt good after my workout this morning.  I wish I could capture the feeling in a jar and sprinkle some on me every morning I didn't feel like working out, I would be out of bed in a flash! 

*HRM Stats* 

• Duration : 1 hour 10.04 mins
• Calories : 765
• Average HR : 159
• Maximum HR : 180
• In Zone : 16.44 mins
• Distance : 6 kms

Not much else to report except that my computer died from old age and I was devastated because I have 15 months worth of photos on that computer waiting to go onto disc.  Luckily the hubster works with a computer wizz who is going to take the hard drive and burn everything off it for us - all I want is those photos!!!

I am using my son's laptop at the moment luckily he has a spare one, what, doesn't everyone?  His aunt (my sister) got him a laptop for Christmas last year for high school, but the school actually provided him with one as well so now he has 2

*Weigh-in*

I lost 1.8 kilos (3.9 lb) this week which I think was due to me actually tracking for a whole week.  I didn't miss a single item that went into my mouth including that delicious white chocolate Magnum ice-cream I had on movie night.  I find the counting calories so much easier than the points, yes, I have left Weight Watchers again and am back to counting the calories.  

The calories just make more sense to me - I know how many I am eating and I know how many I am burning.  It was a good first week of counting calories and I know I can keep it up.  I did it for a week so why can't I do it until I need to????  There is no reason why I can't continue counting and tracking for as long as I need to.  It's not even hard, I just made it a priority.

Moo-hooo-hooovie Night!

On a Wednesday night my husband works the night shift so once all the little ones are in bed asleep, child #1 and I have a movie night. The last few weeks we have been watching the Ace Ventura movies.

We watched Pet Detective first which had a few funny bits and we both had a laugh. My son had never seen it before and I hadn't seen it for a loooong time - well over 10 years ago!

*Before I write further, I must warn you that I have been told many, many times that I have a weird, strange, odd, dry sense of humour*

No one in my family finds either of these movies remotely funny and they are all very confused as to why I do find them funny. I am just glad that my son has the same strange sense of humour that I do!!

Last week my son was away on school camp and I had a very lonely Wednesday night, but I did manage to catch up on a lot of recorded Biggest Loser episodes so that was good. Last night we watched Ace Ventura, When Nature Calls - OMG I had forgotten just how stupid and funny it was.

"Do I have something in my teeth?"

There was one scene in particular when Ace spotted a woman wearing a fox around her neck, there was a slight exchange of words between them and then Ace punched her husband - who he referred to as "The Monopoly Guy" - and knocked him out. He then wrapped the man around his shoulders like the fox.

That was a little funny, but what Ace did at the end of that scene when he held the man in his arms and shook him as though he was talking and said "Do not pass go, do not collect $200" - my son and I found this hilarious and replayed it several times killing ourselves laughing before watching the rest of the movie.

Alllllllll rightyyy then!

The Karate Kid - Ahhh Daniel San

Nothing much to report today, I have been sick and unable to get to the gym but that's not a big deal as long as I am really careful with what I eat. I am still working on my new look blog, but it has been a little hard today as our internet connection is really slow at the moment. I am on my son's laptop now and it's still slow so I know it's not our computer which is a great relief.

Anyway, like I said, nothing much to report. I am just about to put the kids to bed, well 3 of them anyway and then my oldest and I have a movie night on a Wednesday as hubby works the night shift. I still feel really rotten so I will probably just fall asleep. Now what to watch, it usually takes us half an hour to decided on a movie - I feel like watching The Karate Kid (the original version) so we will see how that goes.

I know my son likes it cause he has watched it 100 times. My sister took him to see the new version with Jackie Chan and he told me parts of it and then he showed me the final fight seen on youtube cause "it has this awesome backflip thing in it". Now being a huge fan of the original movie and as embarrassing as this is - I actually saw it at the cinema, really showing my age now. Anyway, when I saw this back flip thing I wasn't impressed. You can't beat 'The Crane'!!! It was the ultimate karate move and brought the whole movie together with all the training he (Daniel) had been doing. So to change the Crane to some weird one legged snake thing with a really unrealistic flip in it was very disappointing.

Enough rambling for today. Have a good day.