January 3, 2010
Today on my way to Best Buy to return a gift, what did my wandering eyes see, but lots and lots of people out exercising. Too cute!
There’s those funky resolutions making us act all out of character for a few weeks, a month tops, if we’re lucky. Too cute, unless you are a regular at your gym and suddenly the machines have been taken over by all these newbies. Sweating every where and breathing so hard that if I wasn’t feeling really good about the shape I’m in compared, I might be a bit irritated.
Instead, I use January as my month to relax. I have to be burning extra calories this month just through osmosis!
So for my New Year’s Resolution, it will not be too start working out. It will be too sign up for another half marathon after the one I’m completing in a few weeks. A funny thing happens to a cheap person like me when I have to pay for a race – I feel compelled to actually complete the race and, because of thirteen miles staring me in the face, I prepare by running on a semi-regular basis.
On the days I run, I put a gold star on my calendar. Today, I took down my 2009 calendar and flipped through it and found stars everywhere once I had signed up for San Diego’s Finest City Half-marathon. What a nice feeling!
So a resolution to get in better shape, well, we can all be in better shape, but I’m pretty happy with the path I’m on.
The one thing that is hanging over my head, okay, more like filling up my cupboards, are all those containers of Herbal Life Shape Works shake mix and those Nutrisystem meals. I have to admit,both systems work, as well as Weight Watchers, as long as I’m actually doing them. Inevitably, my clothes start to get loose, I start to eat cookies, and not those Nutrisystem cardboard shaped cookies, and fill my clothes up once again.
My clothes aren’t even that tight right now, but my cupboards are embarrassing when friends stay over and find months worth of shake mix and meals staring at them when they dig through looking for something to eat. I always invite guests to help themselves, and they do – they help themselves to big doses of making fun of me.
So, I have pulled out all the shake powders and pre-packaged meals and plan on eating all of it before March. I do draw the line at the Pea Soup. I’d rather starve, thank you.
So just like I help all my newbies at the gym by giving them space on all the machines, I hope you will help me by not inviting me out to eat, unless you plan to come over and eat some Nutrisystem and Herbal Life.
This week I will have a shake for breakfast and one for lunch then do a hearty Nutrisystem meal!
