Elliptical!

I got my elliptical yesterday and we put it together in a couple yours. Today was my first work out and I am so excited! It's harder than I expected but I love that I have this opportunity now to lose weight.

My goal is to lose at least 40 pounds and at most 50 pounds. But I think 50 pounds might be pushing it but if it happens....well the more the merrier! :-D

So I'm going to make a chart on some poster paper and keep tabs on my progess.


Have I mentioned how excited I am?

Sleep

For as long as I can remember, I've had troubles sleeping. Unless I have sleeping pills, there's a small chance I will get a decent nights sleep. I know I must seem too picky about my sleeping style to my husband, Joey, but I can't help it!

I have to have a fan on to block out most of the noises that are going on, barking dogs, cars rushing past our house...etc.
I have to have 2 pillows that are fluffy and one between my legs. I get headaches very easily so if I don't sleep with my head elevated, I wake up with headaches. The pillow between my legs is to help with my back! haha I sound like I'm old.
If anything wakes me up in the night, it takes me about 30-45 minutes to fall back to sleep. If I do take a sleeping pill, I have to go to bed the second it kicks in or the pill won't have an effect on me.

I'm going to call the doctor today and request an appointment with him to talk to him about putting me on sleeping pills. I know that once Joey deploys next month, I'll have an even harder time sleeping.

Speaking of deployment, I wish that it would just happen already, so that they can get it over with. Waiting for them to deploy is agonizing b/c that's all I seem to think about. I know that I can deal with it. The first time he deployed, he was gone for 15 months and the first few months were brutal! After awhile, you adapt to it. This time seems like it's going to be harder for the both of us b/c Sophia is 2. I don't need to explain why this would be hard on him.

I've been getting into cooking a lot more. I've made some good meals and some meals were a flop. Cooking seems to be the one thing that I can focus on and tune everything else out. I get in that "zone". I've thought of going to culinary school, but the idea of being in a hot kitchen all day doesn't appeal to me at all.

So, with that said, I'm going to go take a shower and Sophia a bath and hope for a warm day so we can go to the park.

First Entry

This week has been pretty uneventful. Time is growing short with Joey. He leaves for Iraq some time at the end of April, of course that is always subject to change. Either way, he will be leaving either the end of April or the beginning of May. He is pretty scared about this deployment. He's been having nightmares a lot more, lately. While he's out there he will be a gun truck driver. Obviously no job out there is safe to have but this job seems so much more dangerous than the job he had last time he was out there. Last time he worked at the Iraqi Police station.

Sophia just turned 2 this month. We took her to Chuckee Cheese and to the park then took her home and let her run around in her new Dora the Explorer sprinkler. She's getting so big. She's like a sponge when it comes to learning new things. Always surprising me with new words and her active imagination. She loves playing with her baby doll. She'll sit on the porch with me and hold her baby and kiss it and hug it and then she'll tell it "night night" and go put her to sleep on the couch. She's in this phase where she tells us "no" all the time. So she has a lot of time out time.

I just purchased an elliptical machine with our tax refund. I'm excited for it to get here so I can start working out and losing weight. I've been struggling with my weight gain for awhile now. I know that it's to be expected that you gain weight when you have children but it's so unsettling when you can't lose it. So hopefully with this new elliptical I'll be able to lose a lot of weight.

I'm hoping to update this blog on a weekly basis. We shall see!!