Well friends and readers, I know you are wondering what happened to me. Either that or you’re thinking thank God she took a few days off!!! I don’t know which category you fall into, but I’m baaaa-aaaack!
On Thursday, I came to the realization that I have been able to work out on my elliptical trainer for 45 minutes straight and manage a semi-graceful dismount, as opposed to collapsing like a wounded jellyfish, so perhaps it was time to add on some time. I tacked on an extra five minutes and still managed to actually step off the elliptical instead of falling off. This emboldened me to the extent that I upped my game to 55 minutes on Friday. It’s a darn good thing, too, because on Saturday, I embarked on a little mini-vacation, replete with the dreaded vacation eating.
My good friend Julie, whom I have known and loved for more years than either of us care to admit, was coming to Florida with her step-daughter and her friend. She had rented a beach house on Anna Maria Island and I was going to spend the weekend with her and the girls. I knew that there would be food involved. And wine. I mean, come on! A beach house! This constitutes a vacation in my book! Thankfully, I had met my goal of five workouts in the week, but having had my niece and her boyfriend here all week, I had already fallen off the diet wagon in a most disgraceful way – mainly because I cooked so much while they were here. Oy vey!!
Still, I am not going to provide a big mea culpa here. I ate seafood on Saturday – nature’s low fat, high quality protein – I had ceviche, shrimp, lobster and crab. And I got in a good, brisk beach walk with Julie. Granted, we were walking with wine glasses in hand, but still at a good, brisk pace that sloshed some of the wine out of the glasses, to my great dismay. But then again, that means that I ingested fewer calories from that poor, decimated glass of wine, so I guess it was a fair trade off. I really didn’t feel too guilty about Saturday, overall. Yesterday, well I am pretty sure I burned some calories, maybe thousands of them, fighting the crashing waves in Gulf and later strolling along St. Armand’s Circle, but I did eat pizza last night. So today I did my penance with an hour long walk. And I got back on my diet. So no whining and no apologies. I was on vacation!!!
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