Snow days: Good for the mind, bad for the body

Being a teacher, we get these glorious days once or twice a year.  These days are called SnowDays.

Elusive as snow days may be, when you get the opportunity to miss work WITHOUT having to be sick, it is a real treat.  You wake up, eat, and sit...a lot.  And I don't know about you, but when I am sitting I watch t.v. or read a book.  When doing these things usually I like to have a snack.  Luckily for me, I don't usually have all day long to sit and read or watch tv so I don't snack through the day.

...unless I have a snow day.  Then I sit and I eat.
and eat.
and eat.

No matter how hard I try to eat a salad and drink some water, the C's win it every time. What are the "C's" you may ask? 
The C's are:
*Cookies
*Cake
*Chips
*Crackers
*Carbonated Beverages

Sure there are some healthy "C's" like carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers BUT see...we kind of don't have any of those in our house at the moment.  It's WINTER.  Those things aren't "in season," right?

I mean, who really wants to watch the newest episode of Pretty Little Liars and munch on  a stack of celery sticks?  That is not prime entertainment to me.

It should be.
But it's not.

So I guess what I am saying is, as happy as I am to get a snow day for my mental health, my physical health is screaming for SPRING and SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Snow Day to my fellow teachers!
(*Only 111 days til Summer Break! Not that I'm counting.)

Goal for the Week

Believe it or not, my goal for the week is not to accomplish any real "weight loss"

My goal this week is to cook at home all week.
yes.  it's just that simple.

I have been giving into the easy fix of fast food and restaurants way to easily for the last several weeks.

maybe it was the addiction of greasy deliciousness kept me going back?
maybe it was the convenience of not having to do any dishes?
maybe it was because I just didn't feel like cooking?



they say "you are what you eat"
Well then that would make me fried meats with a side of potato products.


I have three simple steps to getting this task done.
Step One.
Decide what to make. 
Step Two.
Cook vegetables that aren't deep fried.
Step Three.
Don't whine. 
Just get off your rump roast, and cook.

confession #718

yeah...i admit it. I ate that cookie at breakfast.

yeah...i admit it. I ate fried foods from restaraunts alllll week/month long.

yeah...i admit it.  I have not so much as gone for a walk in months.

yeah...i admit it.

at the time all these bad habits were transpiring did I even once own my choices? Absolutely not.

Now that i am ten pounds heavier, my confessions come a bit late.
better late than never?

i knowbetter.iknowbetter.iknowbetter.

now, what am i going to do about it?