Yikes! It's time to put my winter-loving money where my mouth is - blowing snow and wind out there this morning.
It always looks so much worse from my cozy bed. At last - validation for leaving my snow tires on all summer: I'm so far behind I'm right on time!
Apple! A familiar "face". Mscat is a gentle but persistent taskmaster. Always a kind word when we feel we're failing, always arms full of congrats when we succeed.
This week my challenge will be no "obvious" white flour. Meaning that I won't beat myself up if I eat stew or something that might have some flour hidden in it. A challenge indeed, as I'll be off on a business trip until Saturday afternoon. (At least I don't need to worry about flour hiding in the airline food because there ISN'T ANY AIRLINE FOOD anymore. At least no free food. Only fast-food sandwiches for purchase.) Starting today, of course, because of the little Wendy's incident after spinning last night. This one will be one of the hardest yet for me, hard enough that I think I need a second challenge so I can feel like a success even if my good intentions are wasted paving roads... Challenge number 2: walk at least 5000 steps per day. Also starting today.
I'm not sure how to go back to reread last week's thread without losing this post, so I'll be a little approximate here. Bonnie, was it you who founded the larda** club or whatever mean thing you called some of us? If I keep on moving, I'll have to hand in my membership card! (Don't worry, I expect I'll be with you for some time. Even at my most active - training for a marathon - I was still your basic couch potato. Some of us are just meant to be horizontal. Lying on a recamier or a lounge chair, sipping champers and nibbling bonbons... but I digress.
Wow. While I was writing this the snow stopped for a while and is now back in a wetter, pre-freezing-rain sort of way.
There's nothing like freezing rain to make me long for snow...
Mscat, as you can see I haven't cured my little verbal diarrhea problem.
But I did very quietly meet my exercise goal 5 days out of seven last week. Hmmm. It seems like I have more time to work out when I'm not babbling on at you lot. Who knew?
I may find myself out of touch until the weekend: not taking my laptop, NO internet cafes in Calgary that I've ever been able to find, and I don't know if the hotel will have an acceptably priced business office. I'll try, but...