SUCCESS!!!!!!!!! (So far)

I haven't smoked a single cigarette today! The idea is to stop smoking, start eating healthier and exercising. Steve and I are going to do it together. We are on a mission to become better people, or at least better looking people.

So, the plan has begun. No smoking. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. It'll save money and hopefully make the exercise part of this program a little easier. I started first and Steve will be starting (or stopping) in the next couple of days. He's taking Chantix and I think he has 2 more days before he stops. That will really be something!

If you have ever been to my house, you know that we have plenty of exercise equipment. There is a treadmill, stationary bike, weight bench with two trees full of weights and a stomach/back machine thing. When I decided to try to lose weight and exercise we started collecting all this equipment. There was even more before. We got rid of a buns & thigh rocker, some ab doer, a nordic track and a stair climber. The funny thing was that I had all that stuff and didn't lose a single pound! So now we've thinned it out to what I feel are the 'essentials' and I believe that once I start using them I should start seeing some results.

Actually, Steve has been doing exercises every day now for about 3 weeks. He has really been committed to it and I am very impressed. I'm going to start slow on the treadmill because the bike hurts my butt. I will try to do some every day. It will take some prodding but I think it will eventually become a habit. That's kinda why I'm writing all this down. If I've written it down and people have read it, I don't know, it just seems like I will be less likely to allow myself to fail since it's so public.

We haven't started the eating healthy part yet, though. And by eating healthy, I don't mean icky vegetables all the time. That would certainly be doomed from the start. We are just gonna try to consume less calories each day and eat less fat stuff. I think my body would go into shock and I may suffer irreperable medical something or others if I went all healthy all the time. Baby steps, right? But, again, we haven't started it yet..........so, FRIED SHRIMP tonight!!!!!