I love bad things

I so want to eat something really bad for me right now. It doesn't even have to be really bad for me, like fried chicken, but even something pretend bad for me, like a crappy 100 calorie snack pack.

This week I am in a different office at work and it is barren of snacks with the exception of icky mints and 9 flavours of tea. Needless to say I am having my 5th cup of tea today. I have some emergency shut the f*&k up kid candy in my purse but that has not been eaten so far. I am not hungry, I just want to eat (hmmm, maybe that is why I am overweight??).

Being in such a quiet, snack deprived office has some advantages like catching up on my blog reading. I came across this free snack giveaway. It for a case of Popchips. Living in Canada, most of the good snack food is out of my reach, or should I say pocket book. A lot of the 'good' snacks can be bought online but the shipping is redonkulous. Although I must say that I am really trying to get away from the pre-packages crap but hey if its free pre-packaged yummy not so good for me food, send it my way!!

The other advantage, I am so caught up on my work its silly. The phone has barely rung and there was like two people who came in so I got a tonne of work done. If this keeps up I don't know what I will do on Friday.

I Love Long Weekends and My Mom

My mom came down for a visit this long weekend. It has been a while since she has been to my house for a visit even though with all the funerals in my family I have seen her a lot lately. Regardless, with the commotion of funerals, I haven't had a good visit with her. She came down on Friday and left today after lunch - it was a great time.

We went shopping (tonnes of shopping), cooked a turkey, made soup, watched movies, took my daughter to the museum and caught up on random gossip. Even though I didn't get any exercise in (unless you count shopping and really this weekend I probably could) but that is fine with me. I would rather spend a quality weekend with my mom that included sleeping in all three days.

Tomorrow is back to 5 am exercising. I am also planning on doing some menu planning tonight. I have a house full of food (honestly, I don't remember having my freezer and cupboards this full ever) so my options are wide open.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Even the Stars Think I Should Get Up Early

I rarely read my horoscope – and I mean rarely. I read two to three different news papers daily as part of my job and cannot remember the last time I actually read one. I am not a big believer in astrological signs. Plus, I am a cusp baby so different astrologers in different publications tend to give slightly different dates for when each of the zodiac signs start and finish. This is because the actual times and dates can vary a little bit from year to year and I find it very hard to keep up.
Why is this girl blathering on about astrological signs you may ask. Well today I actually read my horoscope and just laughed...

Each action you take, even during your downtime, contributes to your success. You start tomorrow off right and do positive things with your evening hours. Take the time to care for your body and mind. Go to bed early.

This makes me laugh. I guess even the stars think I should be getting up early to work out. Early starts have not been easy this week but I will get in my three mornings if it kills me. (And really dragging your ass out of bed 5 am won’t kill anyone.)

Now onto Month Two

Okay so month one is officially over. Did I do as well as I hoped? Heck no. I wasn't expecting a stellar month, I had two grandmother die within three weeks of each other (yes, for those who follow my blog, my grandmothers died within 19 days of each other and yes it sucks) so it was an emotionally straining month. That being said I still lost 3.5 pounds and any loss is better than a gain.

I know the reason I didn't lose more weight, I didn't exercise regularly or watched what I ate. No matter how many colon cleanses and fat flushes I did, the weight just didn't fall off. Bahaha, sorry I had to put that in. I didn't put harmful chemicals into my body in hopes of looking like Heidi Klum and never would. (Funny side story, I was talking to a pharmacist friend of mine at his work while he was stalking the shelves. I came across a weight loss supplement and asked him if it really worked. He laughed his ass off and said, "If that really worked, do you actually think that there would be any left on the shelves?" Point taken.)

Seeing how well everyone did in the competition has done some serious motivation for me and I know have a plan. Screw the sleeping in, I will get up at 5 am to exercise. I am not just going to run on my treadmill (as it bores me if I just stick to that) but instead mix it up with some dvd workouts. These workouts will be a minimum of three times a week (to start with cause really if I commit to 5 and it doesn't work out I may quit). More excitingly, on February 27th, hot yoga starts up and I am super pumped. Its on Saturday afternoons so its totally doable and I even got a discount rate from my sitter so it won't cost like $30 a class, rather with babysitting it will only be $22. (I know, still expensive but I don't care).

Congratulations to all of the losers out there. I am so proud of everyone. Lets make February and even better month!!!


Afterthought:

So after I finished posting, I am catching up on my blog reading and find out you can get free workout videos on line. Thank you Prior Fat Girl for posting the wonderful links. This mean even more variety and motivation. Spanks!!!

When do you workout

Okay, so I am trying like heck to get my eating habits back on track and its working so far. I am trying to be really diligent and find myself feeling better. The whole no sugar challenge is actually helping as apparently I was eating way more sugar than I thought I actually did.

My problem now (cause you know I have to have one) – exercise. I am finding it very hard to get motivated to move. Due to the single mommy thing, I do have limited workout times and the ones I do have suck. I can either work out at 5 am or about 8:30 pm. I know I just need to start and a few days into working out it won’t suck butt so much.

My question is when does everyone workout? When do you find it easiest to get off your butt?