It's about damn time!!

So yeah, I finally made myself get on the machines last night.  It's about damn time!!

I made us, or I should say, we made us a good dinner last night.  I cooked up some chicken breasts with Tony's cajun seasoning on them on the George Foreman Grill and heated up some green beans and HDiTty made us some garlic dill potatoes in the microwave steam bag.  No bread which we normally do.

No dessert either.

I of course started to vegetate on the couch with the dog in my lap and Bander in my arms snuggled up to my shoulder as usual after dinner was done.  I was warm and cozy, well except for my toes which were chilly.  Heh

I kept telling myself to get up but I just couldn't do it.  At one point shortly before 8:00 HDT went into the laundry room saying he was getting a pair of shorts.  I asked him if he was getting ready to workout, actually kind of excited.  But he said no that he just felt like wearing shorts rather than the sweats he had on.  So I asked him to get me a pop and I sunk back into the couch.  But shortly after that, maybe 5 minutes or so, I moved and that made Poydras go all bratty as he does and he grumbled and jumped off the couch.  When he did that Bander then stirred and went up onto the back of the couch. 

Since I didn't have any animals to hold me down and my toes were still cold I made myself get up and get on the treadmill.  I didn't put on my shoes and was wearing fuzzy socks so I didn't want to go real fast.  I only put it to 2.0.  I decided once the show we were watching got to a commercial I'd go change my socks and put on shoes so I could go faster.

But I shamed HDT into joining me just by being on it and he kicked me off.  I made him wait till I hit 40 calories which only took about 15 seconds or so since I was so close.  So I went onto the elliptical and since I don't really need shoes on that one I just kicked off my fuzzy socks and went barefoot.  Put in that I wanted to lose 260 calories so between the two it'd be 300 and with the cool down I lost an extra 41.  So I feel like I did a good thing. 

We both did some arm stuff as well.  We have a couple medicine balls, one is 10 pounds the other is 5 I think, maybe 6.  I used the lighter one starting on the treadmill doing different lifts with it and continued with it on the elliptical.  At one point I got the 10 pounder from him and did a little with it but not for long.  He used it and one of the stretch bands we have as well.  So who knows how many extra calories were burned using those.

While we were going strong he asks me that we should be doing this every day, what's wrong with us.  I told him that we're lazy, no other word for it.  We're lazy and we enable each other to be lazy.  But we agreed we'd be back doing some form of exercise every day that it's possible to do so. 

He wants to go out to the garage tonight to do weight lifting.  I don't desire doing weights, especially out in our very cold garage, but I always like how I feel afterward.  So I won't protest too much.  The problem is is that by the time he'll get home it'll be full dark and even colder and we have no lights in the garage let alone no heat.  Sometime a few years ago our lights quit working, actually all electricity.  We figure it has something to do with the lines going out to the garage from the house.  We've never looked into it though.  So unless we do it in the dark or bring candles out we won't have any light to work by.  And we only have one little space heater, which as I'm writing this I realize we wouldn't be able to use anyway because of the whole no electricity thing.  So we shall see how it goes, I have a feeling we'll have to do weights in the house without a bench.

Slowly but surely we're gonna be back on this damn exercise/healthy bandwagon dammit.