Home Means...Getting Back to the Routine

Hello all...we have returned from California...which on top of getting to sleep in our own bed (yea!!) means that our routine begins again.

We weren't necessarily bad while away...it's just much harder to try and track our food as well as exercise...especially since we were there to "work" (Kurt did much more work than I did, especially if you ask my sister Kirstin.)  When we got our work done, we were able to try to get some exercise in.  Saturday, we went on a ±3.6 mile (total) walk around the yacht harbor in Santa Cruz with Kurt's parents before and after breakfast and then went on a walk through Fall Creek in Felton with our friends, Lisa and Kevin (which we couldn't really track how far because you can't see the trail through the trees.)

All in all the week was good considering it was semi-vacation like.  We didn't snack too much, ate decent meals (minus wanting pizza on Friday) and tried to remember to make good decisions.  

However, our semi-vacation habits started slipping into today a bit.  You can't go to Santa Cruz without picking up some salt water taffy, which we've been snacking on a bit today...and the heat today...well, I got a craving for a Slurpee (bad, Candace, bad - and of course Kurt gave in) ... so all I can say is tomorrow is another day - start again.

Tomorrow is also a gym day.  We made it to the Monterey Sports Center last week, and I can't remember if Kurt blogged about it last week, but we really didn't enjoy it.  We worked harder than we do at home and the machines said we burned a lot less calories as well as were working at lower METs.  I am so happy to get back to our gym tomorrow...I missed it.

Anyway, we have to get up early to go to the gym, so we'll be going now.  Luckily, I'm working in the evenings this week, so I can get to the gym still.   Just a few thoughts...had a good time in PG and SC...it was good to see those of you we saw.  Trevor, glad I got to talk to you the other day...hope you are being safe, and thanks for spending some of your "free time" checking our progress.  So happy Cassie is home!!  I'll stop by soon...I figure your children are being smothered by their grandparents anyway and you are being smothered by your sister.  Thanks to all of you sending your advice and support!!  Its been really motivating!