Personal Fitness Challenge...Weigh In Now!

I've decided to take on a personal fitness challenge for these reasons.

1. Although, I am a petite person I have a muffin top that is proportionate to my frame.
2. I really need to integrate any form of physical activity into my life.
3. I've been watching fitness infomercials for the last 3 hours.

Each infomercial makes one ludicrous claim after another about weight loss, body shaping, and major life changes. I'm going to try one and test the results. I'm asking for you to weigh in on which program I should test.  I am committing to do the following for the fitness plan selected:

• I will commit to the timeframe of the program.
• If there is a nutrition plan, I will follow it. 
• I will report on a weekly basis, weight/inches lost or physical changes.
• At the end; I will post before/after pictures and report if the infomercial was a hoax or not.

Each program costs $60 and has a money back guarantee, so there's nothing to lose! Without further ado, here are the infomercials that had me at "Order Now!"

Zumba
To watch this pumped up exercise party infomercial yourself, click Zumba

Truthful Claim or Gotcha Gimmick?

- You feel like your having a party while your working out - i love a good party!

- Denise's testimony - if you don't feel the emotion in Denise's testimony, your not even human.
- Zumba is a fast growing fitness craze with more than 7 million enthusiasts - where are these people?

 

Turbo Jam
To watch this total energetic and spastic infomercial yourself, click Turbo Jam

Truthful Claim or Gotcha Gimmick?

Get the results you want in the shortest time possible - perfect, that's all I care about.
Just 20 minutes a day to target every major muscle group - short time committment, i like it.
It's not the same old kickboxking -good, cause I am just sick to death of the old kickboxing.

Slim in 6 
To watch this well produced and very convincing infomercial yourself, click Slim in 6

Truthful Claim or Gotcha Gimmick?

Total body transformation - you won't even RECOGNIZE me!
Get in better shape now than before kids - wow, seriously?
Tana's tearful testimony - can't even talk about it, too emotional.

 Hip Hop Abs
To watch this hip and upbeat infomercial yourself, click Hip Hop Abs

Truthful Claim or Gotcha Gimmick?

Lose fat without ever doing a situp or crunch - good cause I don't know what a situp is.
Learn to dance like the superstars - yeesss!
Your not really exeerrrcising, your daannncing! - perfect cause I seem to have an aversion to exercise.

So vote on the fitness program you would like to see me complete by leaving a blog comment. 
WAIT!  There's MORE!
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More of 2008 scrapbooked...

Sharing some more layouts for Nathan's 2008 scrapbook.

Because. Flowers.

Painting, as if...

As if, I didn't have enough to work on right now...I started another project.  What is wrong with me?  I'm in the middle of scrapbooking 2008 for crying out loud.  I'm now working on March pictures. Yet, I have started another project that could hinder my momentum. I started painting stuff.

This is my 'work area' - hahaha!  Because 110 is to hot to do this outside right now, so inside the family room will do just fine.  In this picture, I'm sanding a kitchen chair.

The kitchen chair in it's original color on the left and the kitchen chair after I painted it on the right.

I also repainted this white bench, which coincidentally Greg made for me several years ago.  If you would like a custom made bench for yourself, please send your check for $813 made out to us.  hehehe!

Did I mention I had a helper in painting this bench?

I can just feel you itching to tell me how brave I am for giving my 3 year old a paintbrush and red paint. I am brave but with some clear instructions and a lot of trust, this 3 year old proved himself worthy of a big job.

Ta-daa - all done!  "And I helped" (quote from the little girl in the old shake and bake commercial, hahaha!)

Children's Museum of Phoenix

We took Nathan to the Children's Museum of Phoenix last weekend. Had I known it was 3 floors of total coolness, I would have paid for our admission instead of going on Target sponsored Free Friday...when EVERYONE else in Phoenix went.

Attendance was so high, that we had to wait our turn before we could enter the museum.  Sidewalk chalk was provided as a means to pass the time.

The first time Nathan drew this, it was on a magnetic board and he erased it before I could grab the camera.  Nathan calls his drawing "a big-strong-boy" - so glad we were able to get a picture.

 
Can you see the body, arms, legs, eyes, nose and mouth?   I'm so proud of his 3 yr old creativity! He clearly gets it from me.

Inside the museum, Nathan was able to play with a mock race car. We showed him where the spark plugs connected to the distributor cap and he was all over it, connecting each one by himself.  He clearly gets this keen interest in cars from his dad.

In the future, if you see recycled materials serving as a track for balls on our fridge, you'll know where I got the idea.

 

Next, Nathan is on a platform, dropping a ball onto a larger track and watching the ball travel around the room.

"WALK DO NOT RUN through the noodle forest!" yelled the Museum worker, over and over and over.

Sooo...note to self and others: Don't go on Free Friday, just pay the $6.00 admission to get in, it's totally worth it! :o)

Fantasy Football Draft

Good thing no one is waiting with bated breath for me to post the Picture of the Day, because this one dates back to a week ago on Sunday when Greg hosted a live Fantasy Football draft.  It was an interesting event to have this size a group, all working quietly, picking their players. This was no rowdy affair - it was more like being in a library...which is an oxymoron because the focus was around football!

Laugh.

I just worked on this scrapbook layout - February 2008. That's right, it's current 2010.  What of it?  Even though the picture is out of focus, I love it.  It makes me happy...and sad.  Cause that sweet little baby face is gone.  Gone!  It's been replaced by a temperamental 3 yr old's face, who has - on occasion been known to give me a dirty look and evil eye!