Finally!

I tried MySpace and we've still got our website, but I'm going to give the Blogness a chance. Maybe I can be more regular about updating.

Today we finally got back on our exercise/diet regimen. We were going to start last week, but illness prevented it. Harsh when you've got a herd of kids and a momma first then a dad whose sick. But here we go. Why? Because as Louis Armstrong said (not a direct quote): I don't lay out on the beach because people keep trying to push me back in the water! Well, we are all going to the South Carolina beach (Hilton Head) in late May and early June and Jill and I don't want to be mistaken for beached, bleached whales.

We are roughly following Bill Phillip's "Body for Life" routine. We did this early last year to great success and this year are more determined. It's a combination of diet and exercise. For the exercise we alternate days Mon-Sat between aerobic (bicycle) and weights. For the weights, we have two major body groups - upper and lower - and we alternate. So, this week:
-Monday: Jill aerobic, Phil Upper
-Tuesday: Phil aerobic, Jill Upper
-Wednesday: Jill aerobic, Phil Lower
-etc.
A modification is that each weight day we are also adding in ab crunches and I (Phil) am also adding in push ups.

The diet is cutting portions WAY down. Eating six meals a day, roughly every three hours. Each meal should have a portion of protein, a portion of carbs and twice a day vegetables. It will shake out roughly like this:
Breakfast: 2 egg whites plus 1 whole egg plus a portion of carbs - potatoes, beans, rice
Mid-morning: fruit smoothy with some protein powder
Lunch: Protein shake
Mid-afternoon: fruit smoothy with protein powder plus apple/orange OR cottage cheese with berries
Dinner: breast of chicken, green beans, rice (or similar)
Post-dinner: fruit smoothy

My goal is to lose 25 pounds by mid May. Short term (4-week) goal: 10 pounds.