Are the Holidays over yet?

Chaos! That's what the holidays feel like to me. Here I'm going along losing 2.5 pounds a week--like clockwork. Then a child who I haven't seen in four months comes home for two weeks, we go on vacation (in a record-setting snow storm) and celebrate Christmas. This was more action in two weeks than I see in a year. And talk about sticking to my black and white eating regimen--well that was out the window.

I missed two classes and gained 2.5 pounds during this time. If I had not been on this regimen it would have been more like 10 pounds. Honestly I think I did all right for going on vacation and celebrating Christmas. I ate out in restaurants a few times on vacation and took part in two Christmas dinners. I did no exercise though and that would have really helped.

After last night's weigh in I got my focus back. Today I stayed "in the box" as we say. Started my morning with two cups of coffee, but instead of reading every word of the newspaper I got my butt on a bike and rode for 30 minutes.

Funny story about that 30 minutes.... Twenty-five Wednesday mornings a year I panic when I wake up and realize the housekeeper is coming and scramble to clean up so she can actually clean. While today was Wednesday I totally forgot she was coming and the house was "well lived in," but I was also hell bent on getting in my exercise. So.....I apologized to the poor woman and said, "Please just do the best you can. I realize it's a mess." Next I woke up my husband to let him know the housekeeper was in the house and he should get up. Still focused on working out I hustled downstairs plugged in my MP3 player and got on my bike. Thirty minutes later I was upstairs standing on the deck drinking water and cooling off when Mr. One-Wednesday- a -Year says, "How could you have just let her (housekeeper) in and then gone off and worked out. The kitchen was a mess and I had to put away the dishes, etc....."  I do this every Wednesday, I explained, and had already told the housekeeper to do the best she could with the way I had left things.  Why is it that I only hear about what I don't do? In another time--oh let's say this past September--I would have been upset and eaten a donut and then started the cycle of eating fat, sugar and butter. That did not happen this time. Yay me!