My Do-Over Week

Sometimes I just want a do-over week, don't you? Things just don't go according to plan and you want to start over. Coffee spills on your coat, you constantly run late, everyone is fighting in your house...you know what I'm saying, right? Well, my week in terms of my weight/eating begins on Saturday. Every Saturday morning like clockwork (for over a year now) I set my alarm for 6:30am, roll out of bed, throw on the lightest work-out pants and t-shirt I can find, hop in the car and head to my 7:30am Weight Watchers meeting at "the hill" (Chapel Hill). I try to leave around 6:45am so I can go through the McDonald's drive-thru and get a large coffee with cream and sugar and a dry english muffin with strawberry jelly. I then arrive, go to the bathroom, weigh in at my favorite scale (yes, it can only be a certain scale) and then eat my breakfast while talking with my WW friends until the meeting begins. This routine has been pretty much the same for the past year. Am I regimented? Do I not like change? Probably, yes. However, the point here is that it WORKS! Then, after a motivating meeting, I leave ready to start my new week with a fresh outlook, new ideas, new focus, and a new set of points!!! I adjust my exercise routine for the coming week based on what my weight is that week - I've been pretty much maintaining over the past few months so that is good.

Well, my routine changed this past week because of mother nature. I woke up on Saturday to a foot of snow in my driveway. At first I did not realize (or want to admit) it was a foot. Had I been on my way to work I'm sure I would have been moving more slowly and well aware about how much snow had fallen, dreading my commute. But, I was going to my meeting and I didn't want to miss it! I was in denial. Well, as I shared on my facebook status update that morning I backed out of my driveway only to promptly get stuck! Boy was I mad! Somebody moved my cheese but good! So, I woke up my husband to help. Eventually he grudgingly stirred, mumbled and headed out to clear the snow (and the neighbors - that is just the kind of great guy he is). Meanwhile I was getting HUNGRY!! I now missed my regular 7:30am meeting and had to decide if I was going to try to make a later one or give in, eat breakfast and just call it a "do over-week". I struggled with this for quite sometime. I couldn't eat and then weigh in - BAD IDEA!! So after much consternation and consultation with my WW facebook friend, you guessed it! I gave in...oatmeal it was and time to read the paper on an early Saturday morning. And look, it is Tuesday and I'm still alive to tell the tale. Change is good I guess...in small doses. Now, what does the weather say for this Saturday......