Well, today has been the weirdest. The sun was out for a while and then the storms rolled in. It’s done that often and all all day.

I got to get in the pool and swim for a little while earlier. I’m so thankful.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but ankle weights and swimming laps really strengthens your lower back.

I also really want to slim up my thighs a LITTLE and I think this will do it without building too much muscle. I do not want masculine legs. I actually like my thin calves- I just want my thighs to be thinner, but not to the point that it makes my knees look bony or weird either. I like feminine legs.

I think that’s naturally gonna happen as I continue to lose weight but the thing I’m concentrating on now is just trying to get my lower back stronger again. I also do frog kicks where you push your head under the water and your chest and kick your legs outward (like a split). The wider my kicks are the more I feel it pull in that lower part of my back. I think that’s a really good thing.

I don’t even know how many laps I did, but I was in the pool for about 40 minutes. You don’t need real heavy weights either. I don’t think they actually do anything for my calves, but they may help with toning. I feel it in my inner thighs, the bottom of my buttocks and my lower back. That’s exactly where I want it.

Gary and I’ve been walking in the evenings when we can, but I can’t really tell that that does that much for my lower back. I’m sure it does, but I’ve always been a big walker, so I don’t feel like I get that much exercise unless we walk a really long way and walk really fast. We haven’t done any walks like that because we’re always trying to get home and avoid the mosquitoes. That’ll be fun to do this fall though.

Anyway, that’s all I did today. We got our tickets to go see Toy Story next weekend- that’ll be a fun thing to do and we’re gonna take the kids to the new steakhouse here in town. But for this week, it’s just gonna be rainy and pretty boring.

Hopefully, we’ll get lucky and have some days like today where the sun wants to pop out and let us have a little fun.

We already celebrated our Father’s Day last weekend so tomorrow is just gonna be a regular day. I am going to make breakfast when we get up but other than that we have no plans. 🙂

I hope everyone has a wonderful Father’s Day though. I will certainly be calling Alan in the morning and remembering my real Dad.

Happy Saturday friends.