On my mind...

So much of my daily concerns revolve around my diet and exercise now a days. I cannot believe it! It cracks me up quite honestly. I know you all must get so tired of hearing about it. So much of the time I am trying a new diet and sharing it with whoever will listen to me rant and rave on and on... It gets boring, I know.
So what is fun is that when I went to Ben and Carrie's THEY were going on and on about exercise and then when I went to Kaleb's house, Kaleb and Suz went on and on (well, I kind of picked their brain a lot - they weren't as pushy as Ben was! ha, ha!) about the ABs diet. Suz was cooking all their meals using the recipes and suggestions from the diet. After being on strictly green veggies and some fruit and whole grains pretty much, I was elated to eat bread and dairy and stuff that had been strictly banned. And I lost a whopping 7 pounds while I was there and dropped a dress size by living and doing what they suggested.
So when I came home I decided that this was a diet that I could live with and immediately set out to put Cait and Joel on the diet as well. So far.. all the meals have been pretty much a success and we are all eating without the feelings of deprivation. Then I found out Ben and Carrie were doing the ABs diet plan, too (at least some of it).
So now I was determined to get Meg and Sonny going on it. Yesterday was the shopping day. Meg was exhausted by the time we left Wally World. (not our favorite place to shop)
The humorous part of this story comes when the exercising began. Megan was gung ho. She was a trooper, a super determined exercise guru. Of course there were some grunts and toots and looks to kill but I was so proud of her. However, that was not good enough, if she was going to do them - Sonny was going to have to do them too. By this time it was 11:30 at night. We put on the "Planet Earth" hoping to lure him to the exercise destination. He fell for it and was not too, too happy about the look on Megan's face which said drill sargent all over it. By this time at night, her patience was waning and she did not want to mess around. I made her read the book and hand out the assignments. What better way to learn the routine than to teach it to Sonny? Now picture this: Sonny is intently watching the "Planet Earth" and not so intently going through the moves. He is doing the squats. Next thing we knew he had lost his pants. Yep, they fell right off. See how fast this diet works? Amazing. He had to repeat the set of squats and the second time we were all prepared for the inevitable. You got it, he lost them again. It was so funny. ...had to be there to really appreciate it.
So...we are moving along here. All is in place. We've got the food. We've got the weights and we all have that "I'm gonna do it, to it," attitude. I am drinking my distilled water/green juice...cooking breakfast for Sonny...and pushing the ABS diet to another branch of the Tracy clan. My work is never done. (:
I can only imagine what the future generations will remember about me. I am just trying to make up for all the soda pop, cookies and candy I fed to my children all those years...and the bad example I set for them - thinking I was setting a good example. Some how I have to try to make this right!
Whew!