right now, at 8:13 a.m., it’s three degrees and feels like minus 12. the sun is shining brightly, and the lake looks fantastic, with mist swirling above the surface and birds flying around like crazy, and there’s even a duck or two swimming around in those chilly waters. it’d be fantastic to get some photos BUT I’M NOT GOING OUTSIDE.
actually, i have decided this morning, waking up in my true morning-grace state of mind, that i WILL go to my weight-lifting class at 9:30. i’ll preheat the car so it won’t be fifty below in there, and i’ll leave really early so i can crawl along the snow-packed and hazardous roads at three miles an hour. because i’ve been baking so many xmas cookies i’ve been EATING so many damn cookies, so reallly, i need to get out of the house and move around. plus i must stop at the store on the way home and BUY MORE VANILLA, because i’m out.
this morning, though, i read a really interesting article on the Time magazine website. i thought it made a lot of sense; it was about how exercise isn’t really good for losing weight; it can make you eat more, and vigorous exercise means that you’ll probably expend less energy at other times during the day because of being tired from exercising. if you want to read it, here’s the link. WHY EXERCISE WON’T MAKE YOU THIN
i thought it was so informative that i was going to write to the guy who wrote it, but when i clicked on his name, a little box appeared to write a letter to the editor. i then looked at the date it had been written – AUGUST 9TH, 2009. that made me doubly not want to write, because i just wanted to commend the guy on the good article, but it seems i’m JUST A BIT LATE.
the article especially makes sense based on my own experience. i normally work out quite a bit, but if i don’t cut way back on how much i eat, i don’t lose an ounce, and can even gain weight. but i’ll keep exercising, especially the weight-lifting, because of my osteopenia ( which is what you get before it’s full-blown osteoporosis), because i know that lifting the weights will help my kinda fragile and getting more brittle bones to get stronger.
last night when i woke up in the middle of the night for a while, beating myself up for the amount of cookies and wine i consumed at dinner, i thought I’M NOT GOING TO BAKE ANY MORE COOKIES! but this morning, i realize that, of the six more full sugar and fat kinds i was going to bake, four of them are dad’s favorites, so i’ll bake them anyway. i did cross one kind off my list, so that made me feel very virtuous. i do have a bunch more low sugar and fat ones to bake for kevin, and i’ll probably bake all of them.
it still looks so pretty out there…maybe i can take a picture through the window.
ok then,
mrs. monday morning hughes.