Raising the bar!

I started RevoltNowFitness with some pretty basic equipment.  I had an old set of weights that my mom bought for me from the sears catalog when I was a teenager.  3, 5, and 8 pound dumb bells.  I went out and purchased a $10 yoga mat and a $20 stability ball.  The challenge this week was to "raise the bar" and so I'm trying to do 5 sets instead of 4... which I accomplished yesterday!  But I'm also thinking its time to go invest in some more equipment.  I am always using my 8 pound weights and they are not as challenging as they were when I first started (yippee!  I'm getting stronger!).  So the only problem is that I need to scrape together enough money...those things are NOT cheap!  I want to get two 15 pound kettle balls and those things are 32.95 EACH!  Plus my yoga mat is not as sturdy as i would like and i find my shoes are starting to rip it up so I think I need to buy one of the more expensive gym mats I saw... another $30... and then I think I'd like 10 pound dumbbells... I'm just guessing that those will be close to $20 each.  Suddenly, I gotta spend close to $150 on equipment!  Boo!!!  But I suppose to get a gym membership is $150/year at the army base near here... which is super cheap but I'd still have to drive there and of course the big question of who will watch my kids for me while I go since hubby's work hours are LONG right now.  My other concern with this purchase is that I will need to "raise the bar" again in the near future.  I started this the 3rd week of June and in the 10 weeks I've been doing it I went from 5 to 8 pound weights.... so does that mean in another 10 weeks I'll need to spend more money??  

I'm still losing weight but it seems to be coming off slower now... which I suppose is understandable.  I'm a mere 18 pounds from my goal weight... which considering I've lost a whopping 72 pounds so far seems like a drop in the bucket!  But I was easily dropping 3-5 pounds per week in the first few months and have continued to lose around 2 pounds a week in the last few.  So I guess it stands to reason that I may only lose around 1 pound a week for this last bit.  I'm not giving up on that goal!  I set that goal back when my 5 year old was a newborn babe.  I lost around 40 pounds, then got pregnant.... lost 40 pounds, then got pregnant again.  So this is it, we aren't having any more babies... I am hitting that goal weight!!!!

Well my workout video is ready to go!  So I'm off to kick some butt again!