Since it’s been a pretty relaxing day, I’ve treated myself to a Raspberry Burst Smirnoff Ice.  I’m just not sure of how “healthy” it is to have a bottle of malt beverage while on my diet.  Everyone is entitled to a little bit of a slip up though.  I have read on numerous occasions that having a glass of red wine once a day is good for not only your heart, but there’s something in it that aids in weight loss as well.

Is there anyone out there that’s following this method?  I’m not asking to come out of the closet if you’re an alcoholic or anything, just curious as to who follows the news to the point that they add a much deserved 8oz. of wine to their nightly relaxation.

I’ve been doing well on my diet even though I’m in New York.  It’s very hard to eat healthy when you’ve been deprived of good Italian food, as well as good Chinese food.  I’ve been eating small meals and keeping my calorie count down pretty low as well.  Tonight I had a very well balanced grilled chicken on a bed of greens and while I was using a smaller plate to make it look as though I had more food, I still filled up on lettuce pretty quickly.

Exercise has slowed down a bit, I’m limited to walking around the block and for the past two days it’s been an average of negative two degrees (F) so naturally it’s hard to get any real work out done when you’re having trouble breathing with the thick cold air.  I don’t have the luxury of my club house like I have down in Rehoboth.  Spending more time standing than sitting and keeping myself busy by cleaning the house is still giving me some kind of activity, so I guess that counts for something - right?

I’m sick of the USPS at this point.  The loan letter still hasn’t gotten here and the absolute last chance is tomorrow.  We’re supposed to be going to New York on Friday, if the letter doesn’t show up I guess we’ll be hanging out here for the weekend and twiddling our thumbs to figure out what else we have to do.

My stomach has been acting up quite a bit lately.  I know it’s not good for my diet but I’ve cut back on how much I eat during the day.  I’ve been doing the 6 small portioned meals every day but I’m lucky to even get one into my system at this point.  If I do get it into my system, I’m lucky I can keep it down.  I’ve hung out with a few other people whom were also sick so I want to assume that I caught something.  Our neighbor has been MIA for a few days and we found out that he’s got a nasty stomach virus.  Not sure where he got it but I know where I did.

Oh well.

I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated, but that’s based on the fact that I’ve been so busy with everything going on before we move that putting in any real effort towards maintaining a health related blog is proving to be more difficult than I thought.  I’m still sticking to my diet, I did have a slip-up day but I was menstruating and having some kind of sugar was the only way I could get my body to stop screaming at me.  So I went to the store and picked up a Dove bar and now I’m content again.  It’s putting a damper on my exercise considering all of the cramping but I’m still moving around as much as I can in order to keep myself somewhat active.  So the last week hasn’t been that great, but it’s not out of pure laziness, it’s based on quite a bit of pain.

Sean’s birthday is coming up soon, I got him a gift card to EBGames because Halo 3 is coming out on the 25th, his birthday is on the 21st, and I know that he really wanted the limited edition, which is like $130 I believe. So I threw a $150 gift-card his way and that’s taken care of.  I’m unsure of what to do for his birthday as far as dinner is concerned, but he isn’t actually telling me anything either.  I asked him if he wanted me to cook something, or if he wanted to just go out to dinner considering it’s dead down here now since all of the tourists are gone.  His mother doesn’t even know what to do, so maybe he’ll figure something out by Friday and we can take it from there.

Recently, Sean and I purchased a Wii and before I even knew what hit me I was up and moving around in ways that I hadn’t in quite some time. By default the console comes with 5 sports games, I spent most of last night Boxing to work off a lot of aggression and apparently 2 more pounds as of this mornings weigh in. It’s been almost a week since my last weigh in but something today told me that I needed to hop on the scale and validate that feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Knowing full well that the Wii can’t give me everything I was looking for, I’ve been poking around the net looking for exercise equipment and came across fitness-superstore.co.uk. They have everything from rowing machines to elliptical cross trainers and exercise bikes. Everything is reasonably priced, based on a trusty currency converter so I could see what the US based prices would be. I would love to own an exercise bike though, considering the very long walks I’m sure my legs can handle an hour or so a day on a bike.

For a while now I’ve been waiting on the main office of the community to get the club house up and running. They’ve been telling the residents for the last two years that they were going to have both the gym and the pool setup by early 2007. That came and went. The club house is standing, the hole for the pool has been dug out and even some parts of it are completed as far as laying cement is concerned but now there’s a notice telling us that we can take our community card and go to their sibling community just to use their pool. However, we’re still unable to get into the club house to use the equipment. It’s not even in there at the moment though so that makes the building completely useless to us.

This is why Sean and I spend so much time walking because joining a gym in a resort community is just priced way too high for us and at the same time, there aren’t any major fitness chains surrounding us either. I wouldn’t mind Bally’s or even Jenny Craig for that matter. Both of those chains have a pretty major following, minus the fact that they’re rather pricey as well.

But, I’ve been doing very well with just food portions and exercise. I am considering purchasing an exercise bike though, I just need to figure out where exactly I plan on placing it. The house is loaded up enough as is. I know I’m marrying him and all but would it be wrong to get rid of his side of the office so I could put in a small gym there? heh.