Exercising in lighthouses and kids on a diet....

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Hello! Well, it's been awhile again. I am going to try to get better on this blogging thing one day.

So, the picture is the Ponce De Leon lighthouse in Florida. Dh and I visited it a couple of weeks ago. He drives a truck and since he was so close, we decided to visit. It kind of felt like a mini vacation. We climbed that joker too. All 203 steps. It is the tallest lighthouse in Florida. Yeah, I felt that one for a few days. lol

The diet still isn't going. I do plan to go back to WW'ers once the kids start back to school. I do enjoy my meetings. My Aunt goes too, but she can only go if I drive. She came to the house yesterday and weighed on my scale at home and she is down 3 or 4 lbs from her last offiical WW'er weigh in. I wish I could say the same.

I do have a possible solution. My youngest son, he just turned 7, has a weight problem. It isn't too bad yet, but it's one of those things that I am concerned about because of the fact I see that he is just like me. Metabolism and the fact that we just enjoy food and its just gonna take a healthy diet and exercise to keep us in shape. That means I need to cook healthy meals and not keep junk in the house. We have been watching Shaq's Big Challenge and I asked him if he wanted to lose weight and of course, he said yes. I more or so want him to learn how to eat without putting him on an actual diet. My oldest son (and I pray my daughter will be this way too) is more like my dh. Can eat anything he wants, never gains, and basically doesn't enjoy food the way I do. It's sad that I have to beg one child to eat and tell another child to slow down.

I am planning on packing their lunch this year. Any healthy ideas will be appreciated.

I weighed yesterday, and yeah, just as I suspected, my scale is going up. I'm going to start making changes, slowly, the junk is leaving, and I am starting to replace with healthier choices. More fruit in the house, no cookies. I replaced regular chips with baked chips. Little things like that. I struggle with helping my child with portion control. When he likes something, he wants more. It's hard to deny your child food. I started on a diet when I was in 4th grade. It was a child's weightloss program. I quit and then gained my weight back by 6th grade. In 9th grade, I started counting calories and exercising. I lost 65 lbs by 11th grade. I started packing on my weight again after I met my dh. I went from eating a small hamburger and water on our first date to a quarterpounder combo with coke, and sometimes adding an extra burger. How sad is that???? I have issues with food. Just like my youngest son is his older brother's garbage disposal, I'm the same way with my dh. I eat his leftovers. UGH! Can you say Jack Sprat?

So, we tried hiking as a family this past weekend. I'll save that for my next post. :)