1,000 Calories Later.......

You know what I think? I think I should never ever have another Cinnabon again. Well, ok, maybe not in the near future. Or maybe just the rest of this year.

In any case, 1,000 calories is really hard to burn off. It's too bad I don't like to run. ***sigh***

So. About That Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll........

Ok. So we are on our way to NC and the good thing about driving there is I really just want to get on the road and not stop and to just get there. And, since we left Friday night instead of Saturday morning, Sean Michael wasn't even thinking about cinamon rolls, so we just rolled right on by Exit 104. Phew! Just saved me 1000 calories. Yay!!

And then we're on our way home Sunday evening. I was going to again drive right on past. But. Every time I talked to Hector on the phone that day (3 or 4 times) he would bring up Cinnabon. Like wasn't I going to stop for Sean Michael? It wasn't fair that we got one and he didn't. Am I sure I don't need gas by the time we get to that exit?

By this time I'm thinking HE is the one who wants the Cinnabon, not Sean Michael (who I hadn't even mentioned it to), and at first I was not going to stop. Yes I did need gas but I was pretty sure I could make it to Fburg and get gas there and not have to stop. But.

Yes, I succumbed. I mean look at all that yumminess on a plate! Spicy cinnamon.....sweet sweet icing....crunchy pecans...what is there not to like?? I thought about how it would make a tasty breakfast for me in the morning and it isn't like I eat these all the time. I don't even know if the mall in Fburg has one and I'm not going to look, either, to ward off more temptation. So I bought three, one for each of us, and I have to admit I ended up eating mine that very night. That's how much motivation I had. But I will say, it was really really good.

And then I weighed myself Monday morning. That was really really bad.

No more cinnabon. (This year at least.)

Let the motivation begin!! (again!!)

You Know What Isn't Good For Losing Weight?

Cinnabon cinnamon rolls. Or more precisely, the ones that have icing all over them, then drizzled with another kind of icing, and then covered with pecans. I have to admit (which I didn't in my last post a couple of days ago) that on Monday we stopped at a Cinnabon (I had been craving one after watching an "Undercover Boss" on tv and Cinnabon was the subject) and we bought a couple. Oh. My. Goodness. It was sooooooo good! Now to be fair (to myself) I haven't been to a Cinnabon in years, so really this shouldn't count against me (too much). And I could only eat half of it in one sitting, and saved the other half for the next day (probably eating it while I was typing out that Motivation post).

However, I did not bring one home for Sean Michael. And he saw ours (the other one was Hector's). And he wasn't happy about not getting one. So, as we are going to NC this weekend, I promised him that we would stop and get him one too. Now this shoud be where the motivation kicks in and I forgo getting myself one, since I already indulged this week. I could even just send him in alone so that I don't have to smell them or see them.

I don't think that is going to happen.

Enough said.

Oh To Have Motivation.....

You would think that if one wanted to lose weight, one would get the motivation to do it. So what stops it? That's what I'd like to know.

Though I think I do know, really.

When I'm on a diet, I tend to think of food much more than when I'm not on one. And I think that makes it harder, you know? It would be really nice if you could just kind of shut your mind off to food when you want to, like right after you have a meal. I know I've read that if you feel like snacking you should drink a glass of water or do something to get your mind off of it, like go for a walk or read a book. Maybe that does work for some people, but usually I don't even think of those things and just go straight for the snack. Not a good thing. Boredom doesn't help either though, as when I am at work can attest to that. Now I could keep good-for-me snacks here in the fridge, like carrots and celery, but then that's where they would stay, in the fridge, because I don't like carrots and celery. I don't mind raw broccoli and cauliflour, but (yes, there is a but) I like them dipped in ranch or some kind of dressing, which defeats the purpose of their healthiness. Bummer, right? Back to square one.

Then we have exercise. I don't like it. I admit it. I wish I were one of those people who did, but I don't. Yet, I do enjoy the feeling afterwards, because it does make you feel good, and rather virtuous. (Until you have that piece of chocolate cake....) I recently read that to lose weight, it really isn't the exercise that does it, it is the amount of calories that you eat versus the amount of calories you expend. I would think that the calories you burn during exercise would count for some of that, but then again the amount that you do burn never seem to be all that much if you've ever seen the charts listing that sort of thing. Which is also a disappointment and a discouragement. On the other hand, exercise is good for the heart and body, etc etc. Now just to convince my brain that.

Yeah motivation. I wish they sold it in a store or something because I would buy it. How about you?