In January my husband and I decided to join Weight Watchers. Both of us needed to lose weight and become more active. So we both joined and I downloaded the app to our smart phones. In the past it has seemed that when my husband and I work on dieting or eating better I am doing the work for both of us. I'm not that good at losing weight and doing it for two people is virtually impossible!
With the Weight Watchers app we can both track what we eat and know how many points we have consumed for the day. I can scan food packages and even put in a recipe and it will calculate the points per serving. My husband can track his own food and I am not trying to figure out what to eat for both of us.
Since I was working on being more active I also researched and purchased a Garmin Vivofit activity tracker. Now I know how many steps I have done at any point in the day and how many more I need to reach my goal. The best/worst thing is the little red line that appears at the top of my tracker screen telling me I have been inactive for too long. Yikes better get up and start moving again.
The Garmin VivoFit and my Weight Watchers app talk to each other telling each other how active I have been each day. Probably at some time in the future I will begin to get text messages or phone calls saying "Hey lazy, get off your butt and start moving! You have calories to burn!"
To be honest it has been surprisingly easy to follow the plan, count points and make sure I am moving more. Of course in the 4 weeks we have been doing this my husband has lost 25 pounds to my 10. We will see which one of us reaches our end goal weight first.
Time to get up and start moving again. That little red line on my VivoFit is getting longer!
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Hey Siberia! You can have your air back!
So here we are over halfway through February. This has not been a bad winter compared to last winter here in Indiana (over 3 feet of snow last winter) or the winter they are having in the northwest states (over 9 feet of snow). But the last few days have been brutal here in Indiana. We are in the midst of a change in the jet stream bringing Siberian air to the Midwest.
Yes, I know there are people who live in Siberia and I applaud them. They are much tougher than I am. As the temperature has dipped below zero for the last few nights I have just not been much of a trouper about it. (Think - whine, whine, whine). My dogs have been miserable when we go out. Sadie our beagle (who now believes she is a diva since the beagle won Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Club) comes in limping after each foray out into the cold. Allie (the Princess) just looks at me like "really, do we have to do this again?" It's not been a pleasant time all around.
Starting today it is supposed to warm up but we will be getting either more snow or possibly a "wintry mix" based on the path of the "juicy" weather that is coming our way. Weather that has snow, ice and cold attached is not "juicy" in my opinion, it is just nasty.
The wonderful thing is that we are halfway through February. Spring is only a few weeks away and warmer weather is approaching. I have my seeds for the garden and the tomatoes and peppers are going under the grow lights this week.
Pretty soon Siberia will have their air back and we will be on our way to warmer weather. That suits me just fine.
Yes, I know there are people who live in Siberia and I applaud them. They are much tougher than I am. As the temperature has dipped below zero for the last few nights I have just not been much of a trouper about it. (Think - whine, whine, whine). My dogs have been miserable when we go out. Sadie our beagle (who now believes she is a diva since the beagle won Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Club) comes in limping after each foray out into the cold. Allie (the Princess) just looks at me like "really, do we have to do this again?" It's not been a pleasant time all around.
Starting today it is supposed to warm up but we will be getting either more snow or possibly a "wintry mix" based on the path of the "juicy" weather that is coming our way. Weather that has snow, ice and cold attached is not "juicy" in my opinion, it is just nasty.
The wonderful thing is that we are halfway through February. Spring is only a few weeks away and warmer weather is approaching. I have my seeds for the garden and the tomatoes and peppers are going under the grow lights this week.
Pretty soon Siberia will have their air back and we will be on our way to warmer weather. That suits me just fine.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Mansplaining and the Grammys
Mansplain - (Of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing: (www.oxforddictionary.com)
So this week I am getting in touch with my feminist side and talking about the 2015 Grammy Awards. My husband and I watched a portion of the show (until I got bored and went to bed) and got to see the moment when Beck was awarded the album of the year. Kanye West in his typical, rude, condesending manner went to walk on stage when Beck was accepting his award. Yet this time, (unlike when he interrupted Taylor Swift receiving the same award in 2009) he walked away before totally interruping the moment for Beck.
It's interesting to me that research is showing that women are interrupted and their voices drowned out by men in business and social situations. This happens often to the point that female voices become silenced and their ideas are lost. So Kanye, being the chauvinist that he is, felt totally comfortable interrupting the award speech for a post adolescent female (Taylor Swift) but was unwilling to interrupt a man (Beck) as he was accepting his award this year.
As a woman I have experienced being interrupted (many times) in business and social situations by men. I have also experienced having the floor and being "talked over" by a man in meetings and social gatherings. Usually I just give up and allow myself to be silenced. That is my issue to deal with and resolve.
Yet as a watching audience we have now seen a great example of how a woman can be interrupted in a defining moment in her career yet a man will not have the same experience (even though he was trashed on social media by Kanye later).
So this week I am getting in touch with my feminist side and talking about the 2015 Grammy Awards. My husband and I watched a portion of the show (until I got bored and went to bed) and got to see the moment when Beck was awarded the album of the year. Kanye West in his typical, rude, condesending manner went to walk on stage when Beck was accepting his award. Yet this time, (unlike when he interrupted Taylor Swift receiving the same award in 2009) he walked away before totally interruping the moment for Beck.
It's interesting to me that research is showing that women are interrupted and their voices drowned out by men in business and social situations. This happens often to the point that female voices become silenced and their ideas are lost. So Kanye, being the chauvinist that he is, felt totally comfortable interrupting the award speech for a post adolescent female (Taylor Swift) but was unwilling to interrupt a man (Beck) as he was accepting his award this year.
As a woman I have experienced being interrupted (many times) in business and social situations by men. I have also experienced having the floor and being "talked over" by a man in meetings and social gatherings. Usually I just give up and allow myself to be silenced. That is my issue to deal with and resolve.
Yet as a watching audience we have now seen a great example of how a woman can be interrupted in a defining moment in her career yet a man will not have the same experience (even though he was trashed on social media by Kanye later).
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