Thursday Weigh Day & January Expenses

Thursday is not going to be a "weigh" day today. I have done bad this week! Instead of focusing on that I'm going to make February my b**ch. Sorry for the foul language but I mean it - I'm really going to push myself.

I just highlighted all the possible evenings I can work out for the month of February in my day planner. My hope is by March I will start seeing fantastic results so I will be motivated to wake up and workout 30 minutes Mon-Fri before I get ready for work. I have yet to pull myself out of bed thus far.

I cannot have a Skinny Jeans blog if I don't ever fit into my skinny jeans!!!

January Monthly Expenses

Sorry it took a few days but as promised here are my monthly expenses for January 2010.

Things we did not need: $80.15
Eating Out (Together & Separate): $201.40
Groceries: $327.27
Necessities (haircuts, dog, home/school supplies): $342.88

Gas: $418.8

Pathetic! Now I get to explain...

Things we did not need - I can handle this amount.

Eating out - Awful! That's $200 that is not necessary and could've been an extra credit card payment! However we deserve to eat out sometimes! The problem about this is we only ate out together like twice - the rest of the purchases were us eating out individually!!!

Groceries - This is kind of high - there is only 2 of us and we ate out a lot this month! I am going to start clipping & organizing coupons this weekend! I can save so much more!

Necessities - This is high because we bought like $300 worth of books for Chris's school!

Gas - I never dreamed we spent this much on gas in one month! Chris goes to school 45 minutes from our house and I have a good 30 minute commute both ways. That's how you spent $400+ on gas!! Scary!

4 Days into February

Things we do not need - $25.85

Eating out - $2.96

Groceries - $73.49

Necessities - $57.27

Gas - $0

I'm so over this SNOW!

Sunday it was 60 degrees and today it is snowing. My allergies and I hate this Ohio valley weather! But it did not stop me from working out last night, prepacking my lunch and preplanning my meals for today! Pat on the back for me! I think the best way for me to be disciplined with eating better is to plan accordingly. If I pack my lunch the night before I don't have to fool with it in the morning or go out to eat for lunch and eat way too much. The same applies for preplanning dinner.


I did another FREE mag rack workout on Insight last night. This time - LATIN GROOVE DANCE!


It was lots of fun and this time around I was home alone so I could really get into it. Workouts like this one and bollywood don't even feel like much of a workout. They get your heartrate up and are alot more fun than lunges and squats.



Isn't Wilson's new coat from his grandma (my mom haha) so cute? It's a little big but he just loves it. It's lined with that sherpa (?) stuff I believe.

I may do a Jillian Micheal's tonight. The dance workouts have been fun but I need to do some strength exercises with weights. I am broiling steak for dinner! Yum! I will also make these yummy potatoe chip thingies. I slice 2 potatoes in small flat pieces (like potatoe chips), lay them flat on a baking sheet, drizzle them with a little olive oil, grated parmesean cheese and paprika. Bake for about 30-40 minutes (depending on how crispy you want them to be) and viola potatoe chip thingies. Lol - I don't know what else to call them - I got the idea from my mom.

I hired a trainer... my husband!

So... although we did not join a gym this year... we did something better!.

My hubby set up his old weight set in one of our spare bedrooms. I put my exercise ball in there too! Aside from a cardio machine we now have a home gym. A couples gym! I think this will be our new thing.

Chris is a high school baseball coach so he leads workouts with all these players every week. Why not train your wife? Although you can't spot reduce he asked me what I would like to work on - I then pointed to various problem areas on my body. We did some arm & legs, squats and lunges with weights. I'm not that sore but I can definetly feel different parts of my body that were worked today. I'm going to do some cardio tonight - I might to Cardio X from P90x - and workout with Chris tomm. afternoon.

What a perfect, convenient and budget friendly soultion! On top of that - it's something we can do together. My husband and I don't have alot of the same hobbies - except the obvious - wink!wink!
Me - shopping, reading, cooking, blogging, tv shows, movies
Chris - UK sports, sportcenter, hunting, golf

We get along great and do couple stuff together but when it comes to hobbies we go our separate ways! Working out is something we did together when we were dating. Maybe that's how I kept my figure trying to impress my (then) boyfriend. It worked!