Gobble till you wobble day

Due to the over-stuffing of the clients this weekend and their reluctance to weigh in today I was able to get away from the office a little early which is why you are actually seeing a second blog entry!

Please save your applause till the end...

Thanksgiving weekend was awesome (well maybe not for the turkey!).

I was able to spend quality time with quality people whilst still managing to refrain from the whole "gobble till ya wobble" scenario.

I must admit however, my pants did have the elastic waistband just in case!

It, surprisingly, wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to cope with all that delicious food around.

Perhaps it was because when feeding 20 odd (lovingly odd) people I was able to keep myself so busy that I really didn't have time to snack and pick at the miniature sugar pumpkin candies, cheese curls and chocolate covered yummy things.

Or maybe it was because by dinner time I was sick of looking at food.

Seriously.

After two days of chopping and prepping, washing and cooking...

I was done.

I got over that feeling pretty quick though (feelings aren't always fact!)...

By the second Thanksgiving turkey dinner (the one I didn't have to prep) I was ready for the sausage stuffing turkey accompanied gravy smothered dinner.

Nom Nom Nom.

But I paced myself, savored the marvelous morsels and the results were worth it...

Despite a twin turkey treats twice enjoyed...

Today I weighed in at 3.11 pounds of fat lighter than last week.

Now you may applause!

So...

This is my theory:

Running between two residences (one up and one down) to get two turkey dinners cooked on time in two separate ovens (one up and one down) is a great way to burn off the calories you consume before you actually consume them!

I hope your thanksgiving was as slimming as mine was :)

Exercise Allergy

Sitting on the couch with a cold one, my hand tucked snugly into the top of my pants, watching yet another riveting episode of "Days of our Lives" simply does not appeal to me. I am a do kinda girl. If it needs doing, lets get it done and lets get it done now! Why waste time!

Lets rip up the carpet and install hardwood.
Weed whack the entire 12 acres of land the house is perched upon.
Build a deck of epic proportions.
Install a swimming pool.
Paint the house from top to bottom, inside and out.
Landscape and design a whole new garden.

Hot, sweaty and super busy.

That's me.

Miss Instant.

Not afraid of hard work.

But mention the word exercise...

You better toss me the remote because I am getting comfy and ain't nobody moving me!

Why is that?

It isn't like I am an inactive couch potato.
I rarely sit still.
In fact, I am more on the ADHD side of the scale.

Always busy doing.

And really all that work, is a form of exercise and I know it.

But call it that?

Let me over react, dig my heels in and refuse!

I think maybe part of my problem is I see exercise as a form of time wasting.

There is no pretty flower garden at the end of an hour long walk on the treadmill.
No nicely stacked pile of wood all ready for winter after a hard weight workout.

I don't see any instant physical change in front of me.

And I get mad with myself for wasting time doing something that seems to have no results.

But...

I am forgetting there are results...

And I forget because I often pay no attention to myself and my own state and too much attention to the state of things around me.

Days of our lives?

How about days of my life!

I guess I better work on that :)