Damn. I’m really running out of excuses here. As far as the food goes, this program just gets easier and easier. I’m getting thoroughly unexpected buy-in from my family (a.k.a. the vultures) on my cooking ventures. The lasagne went over like roses sent to a virgin and they argued over who’d get the frozen leftovers of Joe’s chilli! I think I’m going to have to add a small fridge/freezer to my ‘secret stash’ equipment. Finally, a program that provides healthy recipes that my family doesn’t sneer at! I’m not eating lunch out even half as much, so with the money I’m saving – probably $100-$200 a month, I figured I could afford to make decent meals and eat the leftovers for lunches. Little did I know I’d be fighting over them! Tonight is Sloppy Joes made with turkey and other healthy stuff. I’ve already converted them to whole wheat buns, so I think this will be another hit. We’ll see.
Now for the hard stuff. The dirty word…exercise. I’m riding an elliptical trainer 15 minutes every other day. [After a year of couch surfing, I’m starting out slowly]. I dragged out and dusted off all my Joyce Vedral (Love her! Love her accent!) strength training videos and started one about 3 days ago, before I had to rush out to play chauffeur to one of my kids. I haven’t found the other 3 lb. dumbbell I misplaced yet [rots my socks that I have to start at 3, 5 & 8 lbs. when, at one time, I’d worked up to 10, 12 & 15 lbs. – just goes to show how quickly you can lose your strength!] and I’m using that as an excuse not to finish working out to the same video. Not really sure why. I enjoy it when I do it, I feel guilty when I’m not doing it and I’ve worked out enough in my later years to have figured out that I will feel exponentially better with each workout. So…why am I procrastinating this portion of the program? I would appreciate a comment or two. But…since nobody’s reading this yet…I guess I’ll have to figure this one out for myself. The old ‘just do it’ slogan has certainly worked in the past to get my big butt off the couch. Guess I’ll just stick it in my schedule as a first priority, then I can do all the things I usually do to procrastinate afterwards…read, do laundry, dust under the bed, contemplate stucco options, wallow. Bottom line for me is that going from completely stationary [and I do mean completely!] to actually moving more than I absolutely have to is a habit I will have to develop all over again. Among my Irish ancestors, I suspect one of the more adventurous sea-going ones must have gotten frisky with a sloth. [they’d have to be sea-going, in order to get to south America].
Toodle-oo!
Hollycat
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