Friday Confessional: I finally told Eddy

When The Mambo Project began nearly two months ago, I didn’t have the guts to share my weight here on the blog.  The number was way too high.  Way too scary. Only my trusted MD and I knew.  Tonight I finally told Eddy.  It was minutes before we walked into a hilarious comedy show (Derek Edwards).  Perfect timing, right?  I left him no time sit and think about how his wife weighs more than most football players or professional wrestlers.    I shouldn’t have been so ashamed to tell him.  I mean this is my husband.  The man sees me naked.  He knows I’m not Anglena Jolie.  The thing is, even though I’m a big girl, I am still much, much heavier than I look.  I’m not just being a girl about this.  I’m serious.  I do weigh a lot more than you think I do. 

I still don’t quite have the courage to type the number, but I will say this much:  When I began The Mambo Project I weighed more than Eddy...

+ Coby

+ Logan

+ Hermione. 

How’s that for a sobering thought?  However, as of the most recent Wednesday Weigh-In I finally weigh less than the sum of my family. 

Oh, and Eddy?  He was totally fine with the number.  I expected him to be grossed out, but in true spectacular Eddy style, he was not.  Not at all.  This is one amazing man, ladies and gentlemen, and I may seriously be the luckiest girl in the world.

Wednesday Weigh-In: I'm Baaaaaack

Not for much longer!

Today's Wednesday Weigh-In gave me a big, big smile.  I'm down 4 pounds from last week.  Take off the one pound I gained the previous week, add my prior loss-so-far and I'm officially 33 pounds lighter than I was when The Mambo Project began at the start of September.  YaHOOO!

The 4 pound loss happened even though I celebrated my birthday on Sunday!  I'm not a sweets person so in lieu of birthday cake I had a bit of extra lemon chicken at China House.  My parents treated us to dinner.  (Thanks again mom and dad!)

Before dinner we went for a little stroll at one of our favourite strolling places, the boardwalk at Mission Island Marsh, a conservation area.  Graffiti at a place like this usually irks me, but today's silly graffiti made me giggle so we needed to snap a picture for the blog.  Tee hee hee.  Not for much longer!!

Friday Confessional: McDonalds misses me

A few days ago Coby asked for McDonalds.  No problem.  Even though I’m avoiding fast food now, I don’t mind picking something up for my kidlet once in a while.  At the drive thru window the sweet McD lady said, "Hey!  Hi!!  I haven't seen you for a while!  Where have you been?" 

What the?  I was not prepared for that.  I felt a brief moment of panic. They know me that well?  (I shouldn't be surprised.  I used to go there a lot.  A LOT.)   Eek.  How embarrassing.  I didn't know what to say.  I didn't want to diss the food to that nice McD lady and I felt shy about explaining the Mambo Project face to face, so I just told her that I'm not as busy at work so I have more time to go home for lunch. 

It’s true.  It’s not the whole truth, but it is definitely one of the truths.  The main truths are that I feel so much better now that I’m not a McD (or Wendys or A&W or Arbys or Taco Time) regular anymore and, quite frankly, I’m enjoying the extra money in our bank account. 

Wednesday Weigh-In: A fair price to pay

Happy Birthday Eddy!

Yesterday was Eddy’s birthday!  Yay!  Happy Birthday honey!  His pick for dinner was take-out Chinese followed by yummy cupcakes that Coby and I baked together.  I liked the idea of cupcakes.  With birthday cake we tend to cut the pieces far too large (Ok not "we", I cut the pieces far too large.)  Then there is the whole evening out the crooked lines thing.  And let’s not forget licking the icing off the knife.  Cupcakes were safer.  With cupcakes you get what you get.  One little mini cake.  Coby and Eddy enjoyed a few over the past two days but I ate just one following our scrumptious Chinese feast. 

Everything we do has a consequence and my Chinese food/cupcake night lead to my first Mambo Project gain.  Only 1 pound, though.  I won’t call it a failure.  No, it was a fair price to pay for a good celebration.  This is real life. 

Goal for the week of October 18, 2010

First, a review of my prior week’s goal to start walking, instead of driving, to school to pick up Coby. In the words of my cool nearly-nine-year-old kidlet, last week was an "epic fail.”  I didn't walk to school at all.  Not once.  Something always came up.  Because of a few appointments and other commitments I already know I won't be able to do it this week, either.  I'll have to revisit this goal another time.

I'd still like to get my bod moving more this month so I'm sticking with an exercise goal for the current week.  This week's goal is Eddy-inspired.  I'm always impressed by the way he starts each day with a simple routine - push ups, crunches, jumping jacks and a couple other little moves to get his blood pumping.  I looove to watch him, that sexy husband of mine.  When he bends to touch his toes, for example, I'll say, "Honey, I think you should turn around when you do that."  He laughs (and usually obliges!) It's a sexy-sweet little inside joke with us. 

But let's take a closer look at the middle of that paragraph when I say, "I love to watch him..."  Watch him.  Why don't I get up and join him?  So...

Goal for the week of October 18, 2010:  Follow Eddy's lead and start each day with a few simple exercises.

I'm too big for jumping jacks (I haven't jumped since 1997.)  I currently don’t have the upper body strength to lift my mass in push ups.  I can do crunches, though.  So I'll start with those.  Do I remember how?

Rewards

New silver chain holding my special silver cross

I finally picked up little rewards for reaching 20 then 30 pounds lost.  My 20lb reward is something to wear (click here) to the new Harry Potter movie when it opens in 1 month and 2 days (but who's counting?)

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." 

I looove it.

My 30lb reward is a silver chain to replace the one I broke while on vacation in Florida in February.  It holds a pretty silver cross pendant that I bought a couple of years ago.  The cross was made in Mexico and was specially designed for my church.   

How much is 30lbs?




Coby and Eddy in The Amazing Maze

 

Today we visited the pumpkin patch at Belluz Farms, a charming little place owned and operated by the very nice Belluz family.  We got a bit of fun exercise walking through the Amazing Maze, a 3+ acre corn maze.  We also weighed a few pumpkins, trying to find one that was precisely 30lbs so we could know exactly what my weight-loss-so-far feels like. 

Leigh holding a 30lb pumpkin

30lbs is heavier than I expected!  I couldn't hold it for more than a minute or so.  Imagine!  A few weeks ago I was carrying the equivalent of that pumpkin everywhere I went – walking around, getting up from a chair, trudging up and down stairs.  If I had to carry that pumpkin up stairs I don't think I could do it.