LifeStyle Changes

Upon finalization of my trip to Miami, about a month ago, I kicked myself in diet mode. This essentially consists of deprivation, starvation, cottage cheese and work out classes.
Deprivation being from the sweet sweet sweets that are floating around my head, office and home. Work induced stress causes my co-workers to turn to chocolate instead of booze and are constantly testing my resolve by plopping bags of candy, or cupcakes, on my desk.
Starvation seems to always be lurking around the corner and is oft quelled by a dose of low fat cottage cheese on a Triscuit or carrots.

Let's just eat cake!!

Working out is totally against my nature. I am a beast of leisure and resent the joggers who prance around like sweaty idiots. The gym is unstructured, and I don't know what to do with myself, so exercise classes seemed to be the way to go. Monday through Thursday I'm in a room full of 50 somethings sweating it out to either club music or peaceful chimes. An escape from the elderly and back to my demographic comes on Wednesday with a Pole Fitness class. This is a blast and I can't wait to bust out some stripper moves at da club!

Really, the point of this post is for me to ask: What the hell does it mean to be dieting? I could never cut out carbs, cheeses, meat, or drink only spiced lemonade (ah-hem Master Cleanse). I'm not following any specific plan, but I've always considered myself to be a pretty healthy person. The biggest change is the exercise and the cottage cheese, oh ya and way fewer breakfast sandwiches. Let's just hope this produces a change in my jelly belly..

Long, Lean & Rich: that's not too much to ask is it?

Get in shape and save money: how typical are these resolutions? How often do we stray from them?! Quite often. I didn't even need to say it.

Be jealous: I've been motivating! We have a sweet new TV with On Demand channels. Helllooo
Exercise TV and soar muscles. I've been getting up nice and early to do 20 minute workouts before I sit at a desk and snack for eight hours...

Doing this gives me enough time afterwards to take a nice shower (how lux) drink a cup of coffee or two, make a yumyum sandwich for lunch and have a smoothie for breakfast. Now, let's tally: shower: free; coffee: $2.50ish; sandwich: $7; smoothie: $5. That's almost $15 a day! Not saying I would buy a coffee and a smoothie every morning if there wasn't time for it at home, but hey you get the idea! Making all that crap myself ensures that it's not filled with a bunch of sugar and preservatives which is great for my body and overall health (and for my future husband who I will relentlessly feed).

This could be me..

As for the yoga, it really does make me feel great!!! I can zen out and wake myself up at the same time. It's really quite nice in the evening with a friend and a few tokes of the kind bud. I can't wait for summer so I can do it out in the yard and if I'm feeling really sassy, maybe I'll get to the beach like those bitches in the videos. Right now, I can only feel the results, I'm still waiting to see them. Once that day comes, I will waer nothing but cropped tops! Take that winter weight!!!