An Update On The Non New Years Resolution

It's official, winter stinks. The only thing winter has going for it is that nothing is living, which means no allergies for me! There are about five months out of the year where I get to enjoy allergy free living, which means no allergy meds for five months. Sadly, we are on the home stretch with that for this year. I would say within the next month I will be busting out the meds again, hopefully before I get a sinus infection.

Now, on to the reasons why winter needs to be gone, NOW. It snowed, again, and is supposed to snow again in the few days. I'm over the whole thing. I'm ready for spring and flowers and green grass. I'm ready to be able to go on a walk with the dogs without looking like a marshmallow in all my winter gear. Just when my resurrection lilies were starting come up out of the ground, the snow hits and dashes my hopes for flowers. Why else does winter need to be gone; because I have absolutely no stinking motivation to workout. I want to stay inside, on my couch with a cup of coffee where it is warm. I have been trying to make myself workout after work at least one day each week. I know, it's lame, isn't it? Sometimes I get a workout in twice per week by getting in a Zumba class on Friday's at work. I always feel better when I workout, but that still doesn't give me the motivation to actually do it. I don’t know if I have actually gained weight since the first of the year, or if I just increasingly frustrated with the fact that my pants continue to be tight; but something has got to give, and it better not be the buttons on my pants. I refuse to buy more clothes at this point because I can't get off my lazy butt. I was reading an article I found last night on Pinterest that was talking about how to lose weight like a man. I always say, a man can do one workout and drop five pounds; I can look at a donut and gain those same five pounds. It just isn't fair. One of the things this article talked about was how men don't crave sweets. Well, I'm a woman and I crave sweets; deal with it. You have a brownie, let me hand you my plate.  What's that, it's Girl Scout cookie time? I will take ten boxes.

I have thought about signing up for a small group training class at work, but then I see the workouts they do and have heard people talk about the food plans they go on... there is no way I would last ten minutes on that thing. About the time someone told me I needed to cut coffee out in the morning, I would have to ask them if they had a death wish. Telling me I couldn't have coffee in the morning would be like telling a lion they could never have meat again. I don't recommend it. So, that leaves me with doing it on my own. I have dropped the weight before on my own, so I know I can do it again. Both times I have done it, it didn't really involve my diet either. I need to drag my ever increasing read end to the gym three times per week, and I need to stop making excuses for it. We have multiple gyms at work, so I really have no valid excuse. I have been to enough small group fitness classes to know the types of things I need to do, so again I have no valid excuse. Really, I just need to stop making excuses for a lot of things. There are a lot of buts in my life right now, and buts equal excuses. I would workout, but I can't afford the time away from work (lame). I would go back to school, but I don't know what I want to do or how we are going to afford it (valid, but also lame). I would find another job, but I hate job hunting and my job offers a lot of flexibility (also valid, but also lame). I would get the house organized, but I don't know where to start (true).

See, lots of buts in life. The thing about working out I just need to suck it up and do it. The thing about going back to school, I did take the first step and actually look into some programs and ask about tuition reimbursement through work; I consider that a step in the right direction. The statement about job hunting well, I go round and round on that one. Finally, the thing about organizing the house, I just need to start in one room and go from there.

So, there you have it; the update on the non resolution. It wasn't much of an update really. Sorry if you were looking for some grand update with pictures and success stories of dropping five pounds. I couldn't tell you if I have lost or gained weight. In fact, I couldn't tell you the last time I was on a scale. I base my weight loss a lot on how my clothes fit. If my pants don't make me look like a stuffed sausage, I must have lost weight. If I'm now to the point of not getting me "fat pants" zipped, I gained weight and we now have a serious problem.