The PRT

Ok I'm sure I have already written about this but I'm going to write about it again because I'm just so damn frustrated about it right now. William has the PRT right after he gets home. Ok, first of all, the PRT is just a weigh in and they have to do like an exercise obstacle course in a set amount of time. Or it may not even be an obstacle course, I think its just like sit ups, push ups, whatever... oh and a mile or so. I'm talking like it's no big deal... lol I could NEVER do it. And William has legs that go on forever, so running a mile FAST isn't his strong suite. William is more for long distance running. So he usually struggles on the time portion of the mile.

But for some reason this time he is having a hard time with the weight. They told him he had the lose 20 pounds. They always tell him he has to lose some amount of weight. And when he was in Okinawa he did need to lose some weight. But since we have been up here and he has been gone, he has lost  A LOT of weight. The gut he once had, is gone. I'm not going to say he is super skinny now, but I think he is fine. But since they told him his weight requirements he has been eating nothing but salads, and working out for like hours on end. I think its just ridiculous what he is doing to himself. He hates salad for one, they make him sick he hates them so much. I just wish he would stop with all this nonsense.

And now he wants this $150 exercise program. It's like 20 dvds and all it tells you is how you are supposed to be working out, how you are supposed to be eating, how to watch your carbs etc etc. SD has done this before.... not this specific program, but the watching everything and the exercising and whatever. And it didn't cost us a $150 program. He did research on the internet, read in magazines, asked around at the gym when he went. And we have access to a gym here on base... William even gets to go for free because he is in the Navy! So i don't understand why he wants this program so bad. He says its something we can do TOGETHER. Well, we can cook a healthy dinner together, we can read to Noah together, we can go for a walk together... lol there are numerous things we can do together.

It just bothers me that he is so wrapped up in his self image now. He used to not be. Now he wants to be skinny and muscly... I don't even know where that came from until the PRT came around...