The girls & I each suffered through sinus infections shortly after my last posting. :P Turns out the source of it all seems to have been hubby, who felt crummy for two plus weeks before HE finally went to his doctor. While there, the good physician gave him some grief (deserved) about his weight, as well as his slightly elevated blood pressure, both higher than they ought to be. Thus began a ritual six Mondays ago of the two of us arising at 5:30 am to go to our local YMCA for an hour's workout before taking the kids to school & heading off to our paying jobs. It's been nice, because we've been running into some church members & other friends there; plus it provided a time for the two of us to enjoy some 1:1 time, something we've been seriously lacking between our wonky work schedules & the children & their schooling/social lives. I'd forgotten how pleasant it is to be out with the stars in 40-something degree temperatures after the hellish heat & hazy humidity here this summer* (until, as I've already joked, VERY recently). Also, for both of us, but for me in particular, I'm noticing the stress is a bit less when I start my day with dumbbells (5-8 pound ones), the elliptical trainer, the Nautilus machines, the yoga mat...(you get the idea).
After six weeks, HE has managed to lose about ten pounds. I've lost some too, just not quite that many. I marvel that anyone would envy women for any reason; sometimes being female is SO overrated, especially when I see his scale needle moving left and mine more or less staying put by comparison! Fear not, I have no plans to give it up now that I feel the difference an hour a day makes.
*It seems our miserably hazy, hot, & humid summer was truly an aberration, even for Dixie. Many elderly natives of these parts couldn't recall the last time the sweltering was quite this, well, sweltery! I vaguely recall the second summer hubby was stationed here in the mid-80s, but more often than not the heat indices & actual temperatures were surpassing that time AND a worse time in the late 50s according to our local weather forecasters, NOAA, and The Weather Channel. MW
