Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. -- William Arthur Ward
Happy Post-Thanksgiving, Pre-Christmas extended stretch of over-eating, over-drinking, and under-training...at least that's what it usually is. But this year, I've decided to exercise a different plan. I will follow my training plan (starting tomorrow, because this morning I woke up with my normal snot-nose headache that a friend told me could be seasonal allergies and I'm beginning to believe that's a real possibility). I will eat carefully, except at holiday parties. I will drink less during the week. :) I will make it to Christmas weighing the same, if not less, than I weigh this morning. Because then New Years won't be a shock to my system, but a continuation of positive behaviors.
What's up with this? What kind of idiot makes a pre-Christmas resolution? The kind of idiot that looked at a picture of herself at this year's Turkey Trot and nearly cried. I had a turkey belly BEFORE gorging on turkey and I had a waddle under my chin that would make any turkey jealous. (And if you could see my arms, you'd see the old-lady chicken wing thing I got going on.) All in all, it was a wake-up call that I never wanted. Girl, you're getting too big. This has to stop. And so, the pre-Christmas resolution. I don't think I'm setting myself up to fail, because I'm not being militant. Just sensible. Careful. And I know I have some holiday parties over the next few weeks where I'll want to eat and drink (including tomorrow at lunch). And I will. But on non-holiday party days, which is the bulk of them, I will be careful. No more turkey pictures for me!
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