Gettin rid of the gut...or not?

So, I think my main problem with my weight is that I'm not active enough. I saw this commercial the other day for the Wii and they were saying that the average American sits on their behind for 8 hours a day. I believe I'm probably one of those people who helped raise the average. I'm sitting when I'm driving to and from work. I'm sitting when I'm at work, unless I'm at one of the branches; then, I'm not sitting at all because most of the branches don't let ya sit down, and then my back is complaining during the afternoon. I'm sitting while I'm at home. So, 12-14 hours of sitting?! Okay, lately I've had the chance to get in the pool for a bit. So, minus an hour from the average. Ugh!

I was doing the running thing, where I'd go running for 30-60 minutes every other day, or every third day. But then I broke my finger and haven't gotten back to it. Could be the summer heat keeping me away.

I was trying to cut back on the sugar going in. But I keep falling back into my old ways. I have gotten a lot better when I'm eating out. I'm cutting back on my calories. Now, I think I just need to work on eating more fruits and vegetables. But haven't you noticed that not too many restaurants offer a very good selection of those things. And for a girl like me who does most of her eating at restaurants...truly I want to cut back on that. But it seems that my husband doesn't like eating in. And cooking isn't the first thing on my list of want to do's when I get home. It's not that I can't cook. It's not that there isn't food in the kitchen.

I think it would be great to bike to work. But that would also mean getting my husband to bike to work. I doubt he'd go for that, and I doubt that would be possible either, because there are several days out of the week that he's going to school and there wouldn't be enough time for him to bike to school and eat before classes start. So my husband would have to get his licence and then I'd be able to bike to work. It's about 8 miles away from home according to mapquest. I'd have to fix my bike up, buy a helmet, and hope that no one sideswipes me as I'm riding in. Sounds like a whole bunch of excuses. :(
Sounds like I'll have to think about it some more. Maybe come up with some other options.
Ciao for now!