I have been to the school gym everyday this week so far.  Yay Me!  Adam has been walking with the dogs everyday and has made it to 2 miles.  YAY ADAM!  I am so proud of him, he is really trying.  We are really making good progress and, for once in my life, this diet that I am on is not leaving me hungry.  Once in a while I crave sweets, but I have been able to stave those off so far.  As far as the exercise, I am doing a lot better than I thought I would.  Last week I couldn't do more than 5 minutes on the eliptical and 10 minutes on the treadmill and this week I did 12 minutes on the eliptical at a faster pace and 20 minutes on the treadmill with 4 minutes running.  I hope, if I was to win the trainer, that they could get more out of me.  It just seems that the people on the show are just as out of shape as me and their trainers seem to get them working so much harder than I feel I ever could.  I see them running on those treadmills and cycling those bikes amazingly fast, it just seems impossible for me.  Don't get me wrong, I am proud of my improvement, I just feel like I could do better and don't know how to do better.  I am thinking more and more of applying for the show itself, I just think about missing important milestones with my baby daughter and I chicken out.  Anyway, as far as Adam's pregress, I am so very proud of him.  Even though he is having a hard time going into the school with me due to his lack of self confidence, he is trying to find alternate ways of getting his exercise.  He is walking up to 2 miles and I almost have him convinced to come with me to at least swim.  I have faith in him and I know he will come around sooner or later.  I know he is proud of me as well.

 

Okay, now for the show.  How does everyone feel about the teams Bob picked?  I was so disappointed in him when he did not choose his own blue team.  I love him and I just couldn't understand why he did it.  I understand picking the Black team as far as strategy goes because they are probably going to win if they don't fall below the line.  But he broke poor Gillian's heart too by doing that.  Beyond that whole situation, I felt so bad for the Black team.  I can't believe Paul actually gained and Kelly lost 0.  And poor Jenn, her "friend" didn't even seem upset to see her go.  I don't even know her and I was crying for her.  As much as I like Brittany, I think she should have been the first to go.  First, she has the least to lose on the team so her numbers are probably not going to be huge from here on out, second, she has no real attachment to anyone at the ranch, and third, she just seems like she could bring what she learned on the ranch to the real world and kick butt from home too.  However, I really do like her and I know if I was faced with the decision I would not know what to do either. 

 

Well, as always, I hope everyone sharing in this journey is doing well....until next time....