JJ & Grandma J Get Fit......

I'm turning a new leaf.....again. This time JJ and I are gonna partner up and get fit together because, yeah, you guessed it, we are both out of shape.


Huh? Yes both of us. JJ just looks thin because he's the type that photographs thin.

You all know about all my previous attempts to diet. There was the Blogger Spank My Fanny Big Butt Smackdown Diet that Big Hair Envy hosted.



Grandma J went out and bought the look, to get psyched up.



She even hit the mechanical aids with a vengeance!

This time Grandma J and JJ decided to partner up with another pair who have it all together....

........ because by golly, this pair has nothing on JJ and Grandma J. And, don't you love how Grandma J jumps from the 1st person to the 3rd with the ease of a Jackal Yeah, I made that part up.



So....tell me, how do you stay in shape??

How About Some Humble Pie?




....or maybe I should just go ahead and confess to being over zealous when I bragged about losing 10.2 lbs. since January 5th. I was doing such a good job of Smacking Down the Big Blogger Butt before I went on vacation. Then I came back home to find out I had lost another 3.6 lbs! Yeah for me! But in reality I knew that couldn't be true because I did some over indulging in CA.


Not that I actually ate a Molten Lava Cake at Chili's, but the kids and I did the full fast food circuit.....McD's, Burger King, In N Out, Baskin Robbins, and of course IHOP.



So, I apologize for jumping the gun, and leading y'all on....thus, there's egg on my face, and I'm fessing up to cheating.

And just in case anyone out there is a chemist or super duper caloric/sugar analyst...tell me something. Because really no matter how I do the math, I can't figure out how this equates......



Three pounds of Butterscotch Squares from See's.....slowly nibbled rationed over a period of, oh, let's say one week month...minus three weeks....

....how does this three lbs cause an active woman with hypothyroid to gain 3.6 lbs?

I'm working on remedying the situation...I went to WalMart, bought some lettuce, celery, and tomatoes for tonight's salad.

Then I picked up these flowers for $5 instead of the apples with caramel dip. I am back on the wagon, and just for good measure I'm saying three Hail Mary's.

Can I get an Amen?

Happy Chinese New Year.....

The Year of The Ox

If you were born in any of these years, the Ox is your sign:

1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997

Check here to find your sign, and what other signs you are compatible with. Grandma J's sign is the Dog.....anyone surprised?

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back to the business of the day, or the business of yesterday.

Week Three Results

After three weeks on the Blogger Butt Smackdown diet hosted by Big Hair Envy...I don't have good news. I confess to falling off the wagon, and wallowing in a pool of sinful sugary delights full of carbs, calories and vitamin B19.

Between birthdays, deployments, root beer barrels basketball games, and JJ, the temptations have been overwhelming. On top of all that....we welcomed a new neighbor.....

Yeah, The Colonel of all people made a grand entrance into town.

The good news is, I bought a bottle of gin decided to forge ahead and get back track with the Blogger Butt Smackdown diet.

COUNT ME IN

When the New Year made it's debut, Big Hair Envy, decided Grandma J needed to lose weight to host something called the first South Beach Blogger Butt Smackdown. Not be be confused with a South Beach Blogger Vacation. No, a Butt Smackdown is a kinder gentler way of saying diet.

So here's how it works. If you sign up on the South Beach site, and create an account for just $5.00 per week, you get all kinds of benefits.....like a daily newsletter, menu plans and a shopping list. You can also track your progress, and schmooze with your "Beach Buddies". The thought of joining was a bit of Déjà vu...like when you play with your Webkinz.

I saw all the other bloggers saying stuff like "count me in", or "I'm ready", "I'm scared, but I'll do it", "I'm sooooo ready to do this", and finally, "I'll have a beer because it's five o'clock somewhere". This is where I start to make the hard choice of jumping in with both feet. I decide to do the Atkins diet....not much different, but one I know will work for me once I commit to it.

Off to Walmart to buy a scale...a nice one. It measures body fat mass, and hydro stuff as well as pounds. Since I've gain 1/2 ton in the two and a half years since I quit smoking, I was sure that I had all those components. I spent a couple of hours trying to program the thing. Once I thought I was done, I kept getting a huge "E", which is short for ERROR.



Back to the instructions.....the scale kept wanting me to program persons 2 thru 6, and there was no getting around it. By eleven o'clock at night, I was back at Walmart, getting a cheaper scale....one that would allow me to be a one girl team.

That was Sunday.

I also bought all my meat, cheese, eggs and green veggies. For dessert I have a plethora of flavors of sugar free jello.



I've been doing two fifteen minute exercise sessions a day.

Now I can tell the Host of the South Beach Blogger Spank My Fanny Butt Smackdown,

"Count me in!"