The Biggest Loser League

I was off work today and so far I have worked out to my 30 dy Shred DVD. I plan on getting some miles on my bike this evening watching TV.

I also found out that I am going to be a grandma again....my oldest daughter is 5 weeks along, she just emailed me....don't we all love email....lol. She is hoping for a girl as now she has 2 sons, but she says this is the last one no matter what!

Back to work for the next 3 days...I'll miss Halloween since I'll be working til 8:30 friday night and have to be back at 5am Saturday morning. A bummer but I am used to my weird schedules!

Talk about a discovery!!!!!

Well to start I decide to  simply ride my bike down the road by my house. I was planning on just going down a ways and coming back because we didn't have any bike trails or hiking trails near us ...so I thought. 

I have driven by a sign near a pond / marsh area everyday since we have moved hear. The sign says "Whitney Lake Marsh Wildlife Refgue". I decided to turn into this area just to  have a look. I saw a paved path heading to the back. I rode on it and found a 1/2 mile paved path going back in the almost dry marsh area!!! It had benchs for walkers along the way and wooden bridges over the marsh.

The birds are starting to migrate back here....we live in south Texas near Corpus Christi and our area is a big winter migration area. I saw Heron and even a flamingo, plus so many more birds. When we get some rain It will fill back up and be beautiful.

What surprised me the most is this area is only about a mile from my house...practically in my back yard and I didin't even know about it!

Overall I did a short bike ride...only 3 miles, but I really enjoyed it and will be back there many more times!

I am so happy that I am off work for a long weekend. It was a long busy work week and on Monday it was really hard as we lost a patient. I am a RN in a dialysis unit and know our patients are very sick but is it so hard when one dies....we get close to them.

Well.....enough of that. Now for the fun stuff.

We went to Corpus Christi last night...we live about 20 miles from there.

We went out to eat at Joes Crab shack, We both had king crab legs. I got so full with just 1/2 ear corn and the legs I couldn't even eat a bite of my potatoes!! I had 2 pomegrante mojitos....my first time having them. I tried to find  a drink with a lower sugar content....not sure how much they had but they were good.

Then we went over to Academy Sports. I got my bike seat, some 4 pound weights, a pedometer, and somehow a stationary exercise bike jumped ito my car.....lol.

On our way home we got a call from my brother in law. A friend of his was doing karaoke at a little bar in our town, well he's our friend too but just a casual friend. He used to be a DJ on one of the radio stations here, so I wanted to hear how he did with karaoke.

I was pretty fun, we stopped in for about an hour.

Over all we had a good day and evening and I am happy about it. 

I am going to put my staionary bike together  and see how it does.

Working out at home, hard to say where to start cause there are so many ways.

Simple ways are DVD's there are hundreds out there

You can do exercise in front of your tv with exercise shows.

If you don't have weights you can lift canned food.

Running up and down stairs is a great workout

Stationary bikes can be gotten all over and fairly cheap too.

If you have abit of money used treadmills and ellipical riders are out there.

Many magazine are available with workouts.

If you want to get out of the livng room simple walking does wonders, you can go to the school field and do laps there.

Putting on your favorite music and just dancing is a great workout too.

I could go on and on but guess I will stop here.

I just got 3 Dvd's I order today.

Jillian 30 day Shred

BL Cardio Max

BL Power Sculpt

Not sure which one I will look at first but It will be Saturday before I can.

Another 16 hour work day tomorrow.

I also bought a copy of my cousin's book he wrote, on Amazon and got it today.

It is called "The Force is With Us" by Dr Thomas Walker.

I didn't even know he was a writer til he told me at the funeral!!

I think it will help me motivate and heal from the lose of my Mom.