New use for the stair case!

This will be a bit off the normal topic of my posts as it is not dealing with the kids, but myself and my husband.  In true New Years resolution form we have decided to eat better and exercise.  We are joining the ranks of Biggest Loser’s in the country.  Though I am not overweight but in the range I should be, I am following the diet and exercise routines to support him and to just be healthy.  By the way the range they say I should be is massive 95-130lbs!  That is a HUGE range for my height.  But oh, well here we go anyway.  So we are counting calories, weighing food and thinking about our food choices.  Really not a bad thing we both have family history’s of all the nasty diseases that come with age and weight. We have discovered some neat meals and have been enjoying experimenting in the kitchen as well as ways to “trick” our son in to eating vegetables.  He actually ate Cauliflower the other night because I told him it was a new kind of potatoes!

So eating is the easy part!  Now for the exercise.  We are following the Biggest Loser plan so we have to mix up cardio and strength exercise.  Now I do great with walking.  I can walk 2 miles in 30 min which is great.  But the strength stuff just kills me!  Especially when I have to do it at 4 Am because I have to work.  Sit ups and push ups arn’t that bad but the squats!  Nothing like hobbeling in to work for a 12 shift with sore legs!  Today though was the worst.  It is cardio day so we planned the 2 mile trek at the park.  Now living in the south we never really plan for cold days.  Especially the last few years when the winters have been so mild.  Well today is one of those “raw cold days” 35 degrees and damp feeling.  One lap around the track (1/2 mile) and we called it quits!  So we still need to work out.  Then I had a “genius” idea, lets go up and down the stairs at home for 15 minutes (we looked up stair climbing  and it would burn the correct number of calories) which we did and OH UGGH!!!!  My legs are shaking!  I think we got the best work out though because we were really huffing and puffing!  This might have to be our work out plan now for bad weather days.  Cool thing is though now I hate my stairs, at least we got a good work out without freezing or spending the money on a stair climbing machine!