The ADA Walk

Yesterday team "Beat the Bete" made its second appearance at the ADA annual walk.

We had 15 people on the team or should I say 14 and a ninja? It was a lot of fun.

I do not want to bore you with too many details so below are a bunch of pictures.

I used many ideas for the shirt slogans which I am so thankful for. In fact, everybody who saw our shirts said very nice things about them. A lady weighing in at Weight Watchers asked me where I bought it! Sweet!!!

Here are the mugshots of each team member and their shirts. Thanks again for all the help! You guys rock!

It turned out to be a great day for a great cause. We all had a blast as you can probably see in the pictures. We must have played Hacky Sack for an hour afterwards. So much fun!

Thanks again Team Beat the Beat. It was awesome!

Weight Update

Loss 3.0lbs
Total lost 26.3

Woot.

Off to the walk. Pics tomorrow.

NaBloPoMo

So it is day two and I am totally into it! Now I just have to post everyday for the next 28 and I will have completed the challenge!

For those who don't know what I am talking about, NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month and I have signed up (As many of the OC has) to post each and every day this month!

I will do my best to NOT fill your eyes with pointless posts. No promises of course. And you can't count this one although semi-pointless.

BOOYAH!

(another one down....sweet!) LOL

November 1

I remember when I first heard that November was National Diabetes month I quickly caught on to the irony.

"So you are telling me that the day after kids get all hopped up on candy starts Diabetes Awarness month? That sucks!"

Each year I laugh to myself about it as I walk through my living room to see the half empty bowl of left over candy.

Now I may be thought of as the "enemy of fun" but after a few days of mindless snacking I throw the left over morsels of chocolately goodness into the trash.

I say to the kids it is becuase I do not have the will power to resist the temptation (which there is truth in) but my real reasoning is that I do not want my kids to be sugar craving kids. We have done so well with them. We have never denied they sugary snacks but we do limit them.

I remember back when our son was 4. He was in preschool and we had our very first Parent - Teacher conference when we played the role of parent (very freaky if you have not experenced that yet). After a very shining report from his teacher we offered him a bowl of ice cream to celebrate his "job well done."

He said, "Do we have any grapes? I want grapes."

Jasmine and I looked at each other as if to say, "is this a real kid?"

Our daughter will snack on tomatoes, brocolli, and fruit if its around.

I don't ever want to be a party pooper Pop but I think a few days of sugar heaven is plenty.

Am I too mean?