I want to be the “Hot Girl”…

So how bad was Thanksgiving?

Posted grneyedmustang on December 8th, 2008 | Filed under General, South Beach Diet, Thanksgiving, dieting, exercise, nakedness, relationships, running, spinning, weight loss, weight watchers

Well, I have to report that after Thanksgiving, I went up to 244 (probably too much sodium, too much cake, too much macaroni and cheese). I’m sure I didn’t eat enough calories to gain 6 pounds- but that cake is trouble. But as of last Friday, after phase one’ing it for a few days, I did get back down to 239, so I think I worked it off.

I went to the gym today and GOT TRICKED! The spin class I go to is on Wednesdays and Fridays from 6:30 to 7:30. There is another spin class held on Mondays from 7:30 to 8:00. Assuming that the class was only 30 minutes, I went to the gym at 7 and decided to do 30 minutes of weights (upper body) so I could get a full hour in.

So after spin class starts, I find out it’s a more “intense” spin class which involves weights and the stepper. YIKES! And then, around about 35 minutes (um, class was over at 30 minutes I thought????) the “coach” announces that we are now into the abs class he teaches. HE TRICKED US!!! I didn’t want to get up and leave because I didn’t want to look like the “lazy fat girl who couldn’t stick it through abs class”. Plus the instructor is kinda cute - so I stayed. I needed to stay. Between the damage that is going to be done later this month and the fact that my abdominal area is my biggest problem area (and maybe because Brian’s cute, just a little), I needed to stay in that class. I did 102 MINUTES in the GYM TODAY. Wooo hooo!!!! And I’m really not mad that Brian (the “coach”) tricked me, because I needed to be tricked. I can’t lie, I cursed him out a few times though. I’m sure he heard me drop the “s” bomb a few times and there were also a few times where I wanted to wait for him after class and “give him the bidness” (not in a good way, and I totally meant to misspell “business” cuz I’m from the south and when I get mad the southern accent really comes out). But it’s been a while since I’ve felt like that (I think the last time I’ve felt like that was when I played basketball and I’d cuss the coach out in my head. Coach talkin’ ’bout “let’s go up on the track and get a twenty minute run. YOU TAKE YOUR ASS UP ON THE TRACK and get a twenty minute run!!! But a little over twenty years later, though, I do appreciate that discipline. Back to the thought and the sentence I was writing…) so it might be just the change I need to combat the holiday badness. In fact, I may have to continue “tricking” myself so I can do that abs class more frequently! Oh darn, I just remembered that my Bally’s membership expires next month and I’m switching to LA fitness. Well, I’ve got about 4 weeks of membership left with Bally’s, so I guess I have four weeks to tricking myself into doing 100 minutes of exercise on Mondays.

The holidays are really hard for us dieting folk, or as I like to say, those of us trying to eat healthier. Why must there be a party in every nook and cranny, waiting with fudge, cake, sausage and cheese balls, hot wings, plenty of alcohol, and any other high calorie monstrosity that doesn’t agree with my body?

UGH!