Olympics and Books on tape

I have really been enjoying a few small things in life lately. My wife, of course, is the best thing that ever happened to me, and we have been enjoying two things we love to do together, watching the Olympics and listening to books on tape. The Olympics have been very exciting to watch! We love the diversity of sports they are showing, and are looking forward to the new sport, "dog sledding". It has been really fun cheering on the United States, and even more, I know an Olympian! Lt Fogt is on the American Bobsled team. He was in the UVU ROTC program with me.
Kat and I have also been listening to the "Children of the Promise" series by Dean Hughes. It is a great series and we love listening about a Mormon family in the middle of World War II. I have read them before but it has been a long time since I read them. It is good to refresh up on history. I have also been listening to "The Chronicles of Narnia" while at work and it is a great series. I can't believe the Parallelism it has with the Gospel. I am grateful for great books and great technology to let us enjoy small and simple things in life.

Greatful for a wife!

Yesterday was a very long day at work. I got called out at 5 a.m. to a burglary. It was good to go out because the kid caught the guy who has been doing the mass burglaries...it was his neighbor. But last night there were 4 burgs reported, but probably more got hit, and all were people who didn't lock their doors. Anyways, with the capture came a very long, busy day. At times like this, I am so greatful for my wonderful wife! She was very supportive of me all day long. She even brought me sandwhich's for lunch, and when I came home exhausted she had dinner ready and was a great help all day. I love kat so very much and am so happy I married her!

Busy Week

Wow, This week got really busy, really fast. We've been working on a serial burglar case and aside from that, traveling to Provo for Brooklyn's birthday on Friday, Drill this weekend, Kat getting a UTI along with Mono, and a very very busy Monday and Tuesday at work, I have not had much time for dieting or blogging. I have two days off now and am glad to get a break and relax. I am going to bail on the Isagenix stuff now because the other night I stumbled upon an add and really liked what I saw. Everything the guy said made a lot of sense to me. I was talking to my friend about it online, and he got so excited about it he bought it then and there, they have a money back guarantee they are so confident it works, and it was only like 35 bucks. Anyways they sent him the book online while he waited for them to send it to him, and so he emailed it to me :). I have been reading it and I believe what he says works, so I will be doing this. It entells of working out and lifting weights in a controlled manner until you reach muscle failure, you do this 3 days a week. Doing this increases your resting metabolic rate which helps to shed fat, not just water weight. Anyways, if you want to check it out, it's a 15 minute presentation and just go to www.fatburningfurnace.com. I really like it a lot, and today is my first day working out with it.

Day 2/3

Day two was much better, I had monday off so a good, decent night's sleep was really helpful. I woke up and went to the gym. I started off with jump ropes again, to warm up and did 500 in increments of 200, 150, 150. I then lifted weights, did sit-ups and push-ups and was going to run on the treadmil, but it didn't work so I compensated by doing Cardio and doing 350 more jump ropes and played around with a little dumb bell punching bag. I stayed strong with the shakes and had no problem drinking lot's of water. I drank about a gallon. The only complaint I had with drinking so much water is that I had to pee non-stop, while at work. It felt good, and I hope I can keep things up, sometimes I get discouraged and hungry, and I just need to sit back and remember why I am doing this. Today I got up and was ready for a jog,,,the rest of my body was SORE! So I planned on just going for a little jog. When I walked out the door however, I noticed it had snowed about 4 inches last night. I now, I'm a whoose, I hate cold weather, and I hate running in snow and ice. So I attempted to do some leg lifts and flutter kicks, but my abs were so sore from yesterday I couldn't do it for more than a minute. I decided to give my body a rest for the day, and spent the rest of the day I had with Kat. (I woke up at 11 am due to the 3 am bedtime i have at work, and started work tonight at 5). I haven't drank as much water as yesterday, but i'm starting to catch up, and the pee runs are comeing! Water is so good for you, and it helps with hunger. Over all, it is going good! At times, a diet can get discouraging, because everyone wants to see emediate results. This is where self dedication and diligance comes in. A succesful healthy lifestyle requires you to get into a habbit of being healthy, and not lazy, and at a start of a diet, it takes time to get used to that.

Day one

Well, Day one was alright. It will take a bit to get used to not eating so much. Going to the gym was good though, the police department has their own gym, however very small. I started off with 500 jump ropes, in increments of 100. I then went on a steping machine, I first thought it was an elliptical machine, and climbed up 300 feet. WOW! I have never done those machines before, and it kicked my but! after that I lifted a little bit of weights with my arms. Over all, I thought I did a pretty good job, but I need to get in a lot better condition. I don't think I drank as much water as I should have during the day, and because I was on graves the night before, I didn't wake up until 11:30, which kind of messes up your eating schedule. I started with a shake in the "morning" (around 12:00) and then Kat made a delicious and nutritious meal around 4:30 pm. She steamed asparagus, made these chicken wrap things, and some mashed potatoes. I was pretty proud of myself though, and I stepped away from the plate as soon as I thought I was full. I am glad I married a good cook! I was hoping that would subside me until I went to bed, but my body isn't used to going to bed until 3 am, so I got really hungry around 9:30pm and ate some more chicken wraps from earlier. Kat and I spent the rest of the evening cleaning and watching our favorite shows on t.v. Note to self: Watching Ace of Cakes, or Cake Boss on the first night of a diet isn't always the smartest thing to do :) That show always puts me in the mood for cakes and sweets.

Ode to the Diet

Thats right! I reckon everyone does it at least one year of their life. They pack their bags and promise themselves to hit the gym, whether to loose weight, or to bulk up or just stay healthy. The time has come for me to get healthy again, and to help me stay on it and stay motivated, I am going to blog about it from a day to day basis. I hope by doing this I will be able to keep it up, and make being healthy a habit, not just a two week thing. I will be doing Isagenix shakes in the morning and evening, and having a healthy lunch, and of course, lot's of water. I will be exersizing almost every day and getting ready for the Army physical fitnes test that should be happening around march. I will be starting on Monday. I hope by doing this, I also inspire others who read this to get, or stay, healthy!

"Spicing things up"

Kat has gone Blog crazy, and I'm catching the fever. She loves to blog! She loves pictures and posting new things. With her new hobby, she has discovered many new things on what you can do with blogs. It is very interesting and I am enjoying finding new things out, and now I have a pretty good understanding of what i can do with this blog now. I am still discovering (or at least Kat is, and I'm copying her) new way's to "spice things up". It is a lot of fun and quite entertaining. It's amazing what we can do now with technology!