Biggest Loser

I'm fighting the urge to eat every piece of chocolate that's currently staring me down in the candy bowl on my desk. It wasn't my choice to have it there, it was there before I got here. And now, every day, it taunts me. Calls out my name, "Kelly, we know you love us. Our creamy chocolate and assortment of fillings...Eat us!" It takes every ounce of self control I can muster not to just plunge my face directly into the bowl and eat them all, wrappers included. And now, with this whole Biggest Loser challenge my Rivera family decided would be a fun time, the temptation is even stronger! But knowing that I'll have to run an extra 10 minutes on the elliptical for every piece of chocolately yumminess I consume makes the restraint a little easier. So here's the challenge. M, myself, Tommy, Karen, Mario and Mom have 8 weeks to lose the most weight. It's a $20 buy in, and whoever has the highest percentage of weight loss at the end of the 2 months wins the pot. As a bonus, maybe my wedding dress will actually fit!

Anyways, this last week, M and I have done something together we've never done before....we worked out consistently! 4 times last week we got our butts of our couch and went down to the gym where we worked up quite the sweat. The gym is next to the sauna, and boy do the kids in our complex love that thing. Which for 2 reasons, is annoying. 1) Where are these kids' parents? I'm sure there is some age requirement to be in the darn thing, and some rule about parent supervision. And the 2) every time they open the door to it, a flood of warm, nay, muggy air makes it way into the already stuffy gym. Which the first time wasn't so bad, but then after the 13th, I was about ready to jump off the machine and throw a couple backhands. But then, as if an ice cream truck had just parked outside the room and was handing out free Ninja Turtle frozen treats to everyone, the kids all ran away! And boy were we relieved.

Reason # 24 M and I are not ready to have kids: They annoy us.