Struggling along but there is light ahead….
So I got up this morning (sweetie is off to work) and I fired up my Wii Fit for the first time in 2 weeks (just before vacation). I am stunned that I registered a .2 pound weight loss. Something MUST be wrong with the electronics. But dang it all I will take it any way I can. I will watch what I eat now - no more mindless grazing - although I will admit I wouldn’t quite call it mindless. Everything I choose to eat had a calorie count and I made sure I didn’t go over. My biggest splurge over the last two weeks has been cherries — I LOVE LOVE LOVE fresh cherries and they are good for my constitution 
I know the calorie count is HUGE but its a treat that I only get once a year. If I decided to treat myself to a bucket of ice cream that is different because I know after a week of indulgence I can go back to the store and get some more. I don’t think the cherries will be around much past next week. So once a year I will treat myself to my fresh cherries - once they are gone I can forget about them until next season. No time this morning to do the workout but I will get back on it this afternoon and hopefully tomorrow my sweetie and I can take the bikes out for a lovely ride. The weather right now is just frikken perfect. Lovely and warm (not hot) during the day and it cools down so much in the evening if we leave the back door open I have to put a blanket on to watch TV. Sleeping at night is fabulous and we haven’t even had to turn on the fan for about 4 nights now. Just saw the forcast for the next week and its another week of sunshine and perfect temperatures (about 22 which is 75 US degrees LOL)
And another good thing I accomplished this past week is to get my list started. My friend that is going to be my day of planner for the wedding sat down and compiled a list - bounced ideas off of each other, made a decision about the linens and just really got things ready for the home stretch. My next biggest task is to make a spreadsheet of all the addresses for the invitations and finish off my photobook on Shutterfly. I decided to create a photobook capturing our year of being engaged and used two of the pages for guest’s signatures. I thought I was being so smart until I went onto a wedding message board and saw several other brides have done much the same thing LOL. Well I did think of the idea myself - just turned out it wasn’t so unique.
Filed under: General on July 19th, 2008
I will say (and the South Beach people might kill me) but I DO NOT believe that carrots or fruit are what make people fat. I do not believe in limiting either veggies or fruits.
Yeah, digging into a big bag of cherries is more calories than a big bag of celery, but it’s less than a big bag of Doritos, less than a big bucked of movie popcorn, less than a tub of ice cream, and a helluva lot better for you (physically, emotionally, taste-wise too).
Enjoy the cherries guilt-free.