Weekend Warrior



 

First crocus of the season; the reward for getting outside.

 

Our dogs, Dolly & Simon, out for a walk.



Calories in:  1626

Calories burned: 857

Net:           769

Exercise: 90 minute outdoor power-walk of 4-5 miles; over hill, dale and muddy puddles.

Our Spring reprieve laid low today; it was dry but cold- 30 degrees. A bit windy at times, but once you got moving and warmed up, really no problem at all. Once again, I'll forego the gym for the chance to take a hike, and 'the kids' love it too.

Meals today; Bkfst a mix of 2 cereals; banana and skim milk. Lunch, 3 cups homemade chicken noodle soup & a whole wheat tortilla with 3 tbsp. homemade hummus. Dinner, 2 cups soup and a PB sandwhich on whole wheat bread. Snack, 2 tbsp. raw almonds.

I took a nap after my walk; I'm becoming quite the accomplished daytime sleeper! Some years ago I  read a book by Geneen Roth; I think it was When Food is Love (I'll spare you the lengthy subtitle, but it was good).

In it she gave suggestions for what you could do to resist cravings and mindless eating, and one of them was to take naps. I was shocked. It sounded so lazy, so stereotypically sluggish, so fat-like.

So then, the answer to weight loss wasn't stair climbing, lunges or deprivation??

 Sometimes, anything you wanted to do was a fitting alternative to, well, eating continuously.

We fatties develop crazy warped mindsets; I should speak only for myself, but I know there are more of you out there. It's that all-or-nothing stuff again, and we can only break free by getting over it. Mentally and physically healthy individuals do not sweat every choice, every preference and decision to this degree.

Mindful is very different from obsessed.

If you can learn to trust yourself to make sound decisions, and to give yourself what you need when you need it without the guilt, self-punishent and rebound destruction, I'm coming to realize that the rest of the nonsense will take care of itself.