Surviving the snow storm

Hello, yes, I survived the snow storm.  The one with the heaviest wettest snow I have ever shoveled in my life and I have lived in Wisconsin a lonnngggg time.  And boy, oh boy, did I ever shovel.

No need to go to the gym yesterday.  Two hours of hard shoveling and I think I burned at least 50 or 56 thousand calories.

I felt entitled to a cold diet soda break.  Even though I gave up diet soda and haven’t had any for over a week.

I poured that smooth elixer in a glass and drank a few pulls.  Poured the rest of the can down the drain.  It really didn’t taste all that great and I really didn’t want any more.

I count that a huge victory in the “changing behaviours” department.

On the other hand, my other hand found the chocolate chips in the baking cabinet and while one hand didn’t know what the other hand was doing, I shoveled a few handfuls of chocolate chips down the old gullet.

That’s called insanity!

Oh well, that’s my life right now.

Off to yoga to stretch out and relax all those snow shoveling muscles and to mediate about the chocolate chip shoveling incident.

Have a blessed day!

 

More changes this week

Yeah for protein shakes!  I bought my very first canister of protein powder, french vanilla flavor.  Mixed it with milk, unsweetened cocoa powder, and 1 cup of raspberries.  Eh, it was okay.  I might have NOT followed any recipe and just added too much unsweetened cocoa powder.  Don’t recommend it.  I’ll try again.  Less cocoa, no raspberries.

In the process of trying to eat more protein, I’m realizing how many carbs I want to eat!  I hope I don’t get tooo crabby.

On the positive side, I haven’t had any diet soda for 3 days and I don’t really miss it.  I never thought I would be able to make it through a day without it.  Then two weeks ago I read an article in AARP magazine that made me think I should quit the diet soda habit.  A recent study found that diet soda drinkers increased their risk of diabeties by 30% or something crazy like that.  So I started weaning off of it.  And now I think I’m done.

I started brewing my own iced tea and making flavored waters with lemons and cucumbers and such.  I’m getting enough caffeine with coffee and tea, so no withdrawl headaches.  And I have lots of handy hydration that is way more satisfying than diet soda.

(also no more embarassing burping)

What’s next for this old gal?  Maybe I can give up real cheese!  Someday.  Not yet!