New Year's resolutions are so difficult for me. Mostly because mine all center around food, or, more, the control I shall be exercising over food for the coming year.
It never pans out very well.
Here's a factoid about me: I exercise to eat.
It's true. All my life, I've never been a skinny girl. But I'd always been fairly happy with my body and pleased that my 3-mile or more jogs would generally let me eat whatever my heart desired without much fear of consequence.
Then I had babies. Two in two years. That undid any "running to eat" plans. Now I have to run AND watch what I eat if I ever want to wear my favorite jeans again.
Enter the New Year's resolution: I want to be at my pre-Jane weight by her 2nd birthday (in two months).
Should be doable, yes?
But here enters my problem: Food and I have a sordid love affair. I can't walk away from chocolate. It's not in my DNA. (I mean, obviously, because now Jane, at 22 months, says a very clear "Chocolate".)
Coming home from Christmas, I had my goal in mind. The problem lied in the fact that I had a serious load of chocolate goodies from my Christmas stocking. And the fact that I'd enjoyed the holidays. I mean really enjoyed.
So I decided to polish off all my goodies single-handedly before New Year's Eve. (You know, start with a clean slate.) I ate the box of chocolate orange sticks, the entire chocolate orange, the entire bag of Ghiredelli chocolates and my husband's box of chocolates from See's. (I totalled all the nutritional information, but the total is frightening.)
This morning, after three weeks of healthy (in that it was a lot) eating, I stepped on the scale for the first time.
I am down 2 pounds. Huzzah! 2010 is looking bright.
Which begs the question: How much would I have lost if I had not eaten the entire contents of Willie Wonka's factory?
6 comments:
It's all that shopping that lost the weight!
Also please don;t post once a month. I look forward to everything you write even though I don't comment. It is so fun to see our great-grandchildren grow and develop.
I feel that I've had a short chat with you. You write just like you talk! It's comical and fun!!
Love you all,
G:ma
Just count your lucky stars that you didn't ring in the New Year with it's two digits in poundage, as I did. Be happy with the 2 and move on.
Luckily, your love affair with chocolate and your love affair with clothes keep each other in check, and make you the multifaceted, dynamic woman that you are. Here's to more chocolate and more shopping in 2010!
I have never believed in anything that cuts out chocolate...or things that you love, so I also am starting an excercise regime and "limiting" the amounts of junk I eat. Chips and soda are my evil, but also pretty easy to cut out if I refuse to keep them stocked in the house. My advice: resist all temptation to make additional goodies, because once I make it my rule is I HAVE to eat it - always ends bad!
To heck with all of these food worries. I say "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow, who knows?"
I love that someone else thinks its better to eat all the nummy junk food than to throw it away... Too bad I do it ALL the time, not just after the holidays!
Good luck! Be strong!
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