Actually that title is a lie! It looks nothing like christmas in boston. It feels like Christmas with its freezing temperatures but that is it. It’s supposed to snow this weekend so hopefully then it’ll look like christmas. We finally put the tree up in my house and it looks great! To be truthful I am only looking forward to christmas so I can see my sons face light up when he opens his gifts. He really only wanted a few specific things and I was able to get them all so I know he will be super excited.
It seems like the health/diet bloggers are somewhat freaking out over christmas meals. I on the other hand am not. We don’t really do christmas dinner and this year is no exception. Everything we would have eaten for dinner is what we just ate for Thanksgiving so no one is really trying to cook. The one thing we are thinking about doing is maybe having a christmas brunch but if that doesn’t happen I will probably roast a chicken and make a cake & some cookies.
My eating and exercising has been going well. I have been without my HRM (Heart rate monitor) for about a week and it’s been irking me since I don’t really know how many calories I am burning for my exercise. Today I found a new battery for the sensor so hopefully I can get it installed and get my correct readings. I seriously love my HRM it allows me to get a pretty good evaluation on my calories burned and lets me know if I am dipping to low into the danger zone of not enough calories for the day.
Tony (my bf) exercised 2 days with me but then his back started hurting so I am back to my lonesome. The first day we did Jillian together (wait that really doesn’t sound right but ya’ll know what I mean!) he was huffing and puffing and about to keel over. After about 30 mins he said “HIGH FIVE….YOU’RE THE MAN, this dvd is a killer and you come out here and do it 6 days a week…good job”, that made me super happy because her dvd is super hard and I am pretty close to being able to do all the circuits non-stop without passing out. Tony’s very supportive and I have to give him props because sometimes I would not being going as hard as I do if it wasn’t for him. He really keeps me in check. If he sees me eyeing something I know I do not want to eat he’ll say “you know you don’t really want that” or give me an alternative. So yay for supportive boyfriends!
This weekend should be a breeze I have 1 party to go to but I am not too worried I am going to bring my own wine and have 2 glasses and then drink water the rest of the night. I seriously cannot wait until the end of the month I will have a good 4 days of vacation on top of being off for Xmas and new years. I am just itching to lay in my bed all day (except for my hour when I exercise) and relax. Actually I have plans for one day the family and I are going SNOW-TUBING. I cannot wait since I have always loved sledding, snow tubing has to be as good or better. The rest of the days I will be relaxing.
Until tomorrow…see ya
