Yup, I said it. I want to eat a whole elephant. Sounds a bit sick huh?
The thing is eating a whole elephant for me (don't know about you weirdos) is metaphoric. You know the saying "How do you eat an elephant... One bite at a time"? That applies to my life right now. How do I lose weight and keep it off? Make small changes like not buying a slab of chocolate when it is on sale. I made some changes this past two weeks that I am proud of but to you they might be a bit 'duh'. Okay, for the last month or so, I stopped walking down the Chips isle at the shops. One thing I noticed about myself is that I LOVE SPECIALS (and I love chips - I'm a savoury and salty girl)! If something is on special, I just want to buy it. Its like a sign from heaven that I should buy it. The reality is, however, its not a sign from heaven that I should buy chips eve.ry.ti.me. they are on special because I will have an allergic reaction to the suckers. I will blow up and my heart will stop beating. Anyways, I digress.
So I have not bought chips in a long long long time. About a month and a half to be correct. To me that is ages and ages!
I went through a stage where I bought chocolate and would inhale a whole slab of chocolate in an hour just because it was on special and it tasted good. I used to be lenient with myself and buy one once a month when I would get those monthly cravings but Cadbury decided that they would promote chocolate for 3 months and I was one of those neanderthals who fell for it.
Now, I have had it! Flip You Cadbury and your awesome chocolate. I will walk on by when you are on special. Perhaps when I get them monthly cravings I will get a bar of Choc. Not a whole slab. I cant be trusted around those mothers.
I am carrying a bag of apples in my car should I get weird and feel the need to binge. One day is one day. I will binge on Celery sticks and Carrots. One day.
Last week I went to the gym 3 times but I don't feel like I worked out properly. They say its nice to have a gym buddy but I find it tiresome because all my buddies are a third of me in size and can work out for 20 mins and be happy with that. I need to work out for an hour and 20 minutes to burn calories I ate during lunch let alone breakfast and supper.
So, as much as I love my friends I shall try to avoid them if I am not going to an aerobic class. I'M SORRY. Except maybe Angie. She is a beast that one! She can make American Gladiators look like peenie weenie malnourished snails.
Any who, last point. I went to an aerobic class last night and I had to walk out because I was dead on my feet! What the heck! I have never done that EVER! But it serves me right for thinking I can conquer one of the hardest classes at the gym after 2 months of no gym and inhaling copious amounts of chocolate and chips and hot chips and and and. Tonight, I get my groove back with ZUMBA.
