Planning

It’s been quiet around here, not that anyone noticed because I’m sure that I’ve scared any potential readers off with my woe-is-me whining. No matter though, it’s a new week and I’ve been busy burrowed in my cubical at work catching up on the monstrous amount of work being reassigned to me now that I’ve acclimated to being back from maternity leave. Thankfully I now have 4 days off. Woohoo!

It also appears that I’m padding my weight by eating all the sweets in the house in preparation for Jennie’s BiggestBloggingLoser competition. I was very good about gifting almost all of the cookies I made but now there are these chocolates … anyhow, they should be gone by January 3, more or less. I trashed the Halloween candy I had stuffed into a snowman cookie jar today. I feel good about that decision. I don’t feel like digging out one last tootsie roll pop out of the garbage all. Nope, not me.

My plan diet-wise is to switch to brown rice and whole wheat pasta, cut out soda and sweets except one fudgcicle a night and cut my wine to 1-2 nights a week at 1-2 glasses. I know if I go cold turkey on sweets that I’ll never make it. I’m also toying with the idea of serving myself all my meals on top of a bed of lettuce, because I won’t eat a side salad and it might make a smaller portion look bigger and fill me up a little more. I need to play tricks on myself. Knowing thyself is the first step, right?

For exercise, I think the best way for me to do it is to get up early and go for a run. Tentative plan: running 2-3 days a week, Wii Fit 2-3 days a week. I’ll also be resuming my stairs at work. I’m also going back to holding myself accountable on this blog as well and not just on my weigh-ins, so be prepared for weekly pictures of my ugly feet on a scale. Maybe that will tie into my Menu Mondays, because nothing says EAT like I picture of how fat you are, right?