I joined  Sparkpeople last year but never got into it… but in the last few weeks I have been checking it out more and have started to enter stuff everyday… and I think that I might be seeing a few results…

When I was doing WW way back when It really did help when I journaled what I was eating and it is proving to be helpful again… I also love that everything is there and very visually based so I can set goals if I wish and see that I have fulfilled them…

I haven’t really gotten into the message boards but I know that there is support for everyone there so I might start posting a bit more..

Anyone else a member there?

Keep on swimming… keep on swimming… swimming.. swimming…

I have been trying to go swimming 2-3X a week and slowly it is becoming easier to actually get up after supper and go…

It is not far away… So to swim for the hour that is open…  I am gone from home from about 6:25 to 7:35… that works out to be right after supper while the kids are in the bath and gettin ready for bed… then when I come home I can nurse the little ones to sleep…

the first day I went I worked myself a bit too hard… I was sore before I left the pool… but now I go slowly and steadily and I am slowly building my endurance… by the end on an hour I end up doing about 25-30 laps… which may not be much but at least I am moving and I keep on moving…

What’s hard though is that swimming is a great excersise but you get really hungry when you are done… I really need to find some good snacks that will fill me up without just adding back all of the calories that I just burned off…

and I overdid myself the first day, I think I was a bit over enthusiastic… I did about 20 laps and by the time I was getting into the car I was already sore… I was sore most of the night but wasn’t too bad the next day… just a bit tender…

I went again on Tuesday though and went a bit more slowly… I did about 12 laps… half of those were free style and then the rest were swimming on my sides, backstroke, underwater and using the kickboard to give my arms a rest…

Yesterday I didn’t go… mostly because I would like to get a new pair of goggles before I go again… my eyes are really sensitive to the chlorine and the goggles I have keep on letting water in on one side… which is not only bad for my eyes but really annoying… Of course I can’t expect too much of them after having spent most of last summer in the sun or at the bottom of our own pool because the kids kept on throwing them in… I want to go get a new pair today though because  I want to again tonight… I think I would like for the family to come with me also… since half of the pool is for free swim while two rows are reserved for laps…

My eating habits are pretty good… I don’t eat much junk, My portions are pretty normal but I do need to work on eating more slowly… but the weight is not coming off as fast as I would like… I know I need to move more so that I am burning more calories that I eat… but the gym is WAY too expensive and though walking is great, it is freezing and Icy out and it just doesn’t interest me… but I love the water, I love to swim so that is what I am going to start doing…

Yesterday I bought a new Bathing suit… I am kind of between sizes at the moment so I choose the smaller size knowing that it might be a bit tight at the moment but that if I start to swim on a regular basis I will start losing a bit and I will fit into it better…

So, I am going to be going 2-3X a week… it is about 5 min away and I am going to go after supper while Simon gets the kids ready for bed because the pool is open for laps between 7 and 8… so starting Monday, that is what I am going to be doing…