Ok, I started this post a week ago and I'm finally getting around to finishing it. Ugh. I've been a bad blogger and I feel like I've let you all down by not posting over the month. I'm sorry and I'm going to work on it.
12/31/08 - I've been so busy, y'all! But leave it to me to always find time to eat :-)
On December 5th, Chris and I left GA in our Saab with our 2 cats for him to start work on the 8th. I flew back on the 10th, picked Bart up fvrom daycare on the 11th and started packing our house. We wanted to pack all of our personal items and put them in storage, leaving the house staged with only furniture and decorative items. I knew I needed to leave no later than the 22nd in order to drive up to MA and be on time for Christmas.
I managed to pack up our 4000 sq.ft. house, do all of our Christmas shopping (and have it shipped to MA) and finish several knitted gifts in 10 days! Then I drove for two days with Bart and finally arrived December 23rd at 10pm. I spent the next day wrapping and as soon as I relaxed the day after Christmas, my body got sick (totally par for the course).
Somewhere in there I managed to stuff in Arbys, a cheese danish, a chocolate frosted Tastycake, swedish meatballs, jumbalaya, bread and butter, a cheesecake cupcake, madeleines, fudge, rumballs, chinese food, ham, and quite a bit of wine. My Christmas miracle was actually losing 3 pounds! I cant believe it. I'm going to try and explain it away with, "My activity level must have been so high that I burned off some extra calories." I know I was bad and that I did not make great food choices but I KNOW that 4 months, 6 months, or a year ago I would have eaten so much more and not have been conscious of what I was putting in my mouth and how many calories were in it.
I was talking with Lula a few days (now weeks) ago and she said that when she was doing Weight Watchers they would tell you it was normal for everyone to gain 10-15 pounds during the Holiday season. Just saying it makes the weight gain acceptable and perpetuates this nasty cycle of eating, eating, EATING and then having to lose, lose, LOSE. To quote Susan Powter, "Stop the insanity!"
I'm so proud of all of us - some of us gained, some of us stayed the same, and some of us lost over the past few weeks. And then we got back right back on the horse and started kicking butt again this week! Let's keep kicking butt - and lose our butts! And bellies! And thighs!
I'm hoping we all have a happy and HEALTHY New Year!
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