Go hard or go home. And if you have to stay home, well go hard there instead.

We just finished week 4 of Lose to Win.

And in that week we had a snow day, a blizzard, and the Y was closed for 48 hours.

So I had to resort to drastic measures.

Some of you thought I was crazy for pulling a Rocky IV and running laps around my yard in a blizzard.

We ended up getting about 2 feet of snow.

So I switched it up a little the next day.

I shoveled out the front walkway.

Which took about an hour.

It’s pretty long.

But I still needed to add some cardio.

So I shoveled a luge track for the kids.

That was pretty long too. Even longer than the walkway.

I started by shoveling a pretty big pile of snow at the top. A launch pad.

The kids spent the whole weekend sledding.

And snowboarding.

It took me about 2 1/2 hours to make that.

Totally worth it.

But just to be on the safe side, I shoveled half of the driveway after that.

4 hours of shoveling.

I’m still a little sore.

But I worked out dammit.

Every day.

Even in a blizzard.

When the Y was closed for 48 hours.

And all 7 kids were home.

Was it worth it?

YES!!!

Because I lost 3 pounds!

WOOOOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

FINALLY!

A decent drop.

I actually lost 3.6 pounds.

It feels really fucking good to say that.

And here’s what I learned this week:

• You’re not supposed to wear underpants with bike shorts. Who knew?
• My jeans are finally too big.  With long underwear on underneath them. Yeeeeaaahhhh Boooooyeeeee.
• We may see Number 5 in the 2026 Winter Olympics. She’s kind of a hard core luger.
• If it weren’t for spin class, I wouldn’t have known any of the current songs nominated at the Grammy’s last night.
• I can do anything if I set my mind to it.

And here are the pictures…

I’m shrinking 🙂 

 Day 1

 Day 29

 Day 1

 Day 29

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