I love the holiday season with all the wonderful food and treats. It starts at halloween really. I always buy too much candy to give out and it seems that I now tend to buy the bigger candy bars that I love. I have come to realize that I do this because I know there will be candy left over and I want to be able to eat it. I hate those little runts and skittles etc. So I managed to have a whole bowl of candy bars left and enjoyed eating one, ok, two, a day for several weeks. Then came Thanksgiving with all the desserts. This year we had Christmas right on top of that. So I had a cupboard full of chocolates, candy, cookies of every variety, chips, licorice, cakes, and a refrigerator full of frozen desserts, cheeses, eggnog etc, you get the picture. I ate way too much as usual and put on more pounds than usual. I think it must be an age thing. The older I get, the more the pounds seems to want to stick around.
I am terrible at organizing as you may have read in a previous post. But I thought it would be easy to just open the cupboard and throw out most of the sweets, besides, I am the main person who eats them and I had made up my mind. But.........It was harder than I thought. Once again, I just transfered candy from one jar to another smaller jar making the cupboard look like it was cleaned out. I thought I was pretty clever.
So I decided to start the new year off by not eating sweets of any kind. By the end of day 2 I was doing well but started to develop a headache which wouldn't go away. On day three, today, I opened the banned cupboard and I couldn't help myself, yes, you guessed it, I hungrily devoured a chocolate bar! It tasted so good but then I felt terrible. How could I be so weak?
The only consolation I have is that I have gone 3 days with walking on the treadmill and pumping some weights.
Today I have talked myself into thinking that moderation in all things is the way to go. I just love chocolate, but if I can cut down from 2 bars a day to 1 or sometimes not even one, then I'm good with that. I just hope I can keep up with the walking in the hopes that I can loose some pounds over a few months.
So that's how my new years resolutions have gone so far this year.
Sometimes I wonder why we are living up here in Utah. The winter is especially miserable at times but then we have sunsets like this view from our back patio and delicate snow forming a real winter wonderland like this along the streets around our neighborhood. I just sigh and thank God for the beauty of nature all around us and say how grateful I am to be able to see scenes like this.
