Guess who’s baaacccckkkk?????

Well, I officially give all my former faithful blog readers permission to whoop my butt. It’s been way too long. As this blog started as a complete confession and real women’s experience, I’m gonna try to keep it real. Here it goes… So I’ve hit a road block lately. Without drugging everyone through the eye gouging details, I’ve basically gone through some life changes within the last few months, and I have some exciting news too. I got a new job (yeah for me) which I love, but I had no idea how much that would alter what life I used to know. Instead of getting home at 2 in the afternoon, I get home with not even 30 minutes of daylight left in the day (you will never hear me say this again, but I can’t wait for summer). In a way though, I’m on a “normal” schedule. Although, what the heck is normal anymore? Anyways…. Then of course there is the eating. Hour long lunches, corporate gatherings…Thanksgiving….CHRISTMAS!!! Everywhere I looked there was food. Not just regular food, I mean mouth watering, once a year, give me another Christmas cookie FOOD. Now, if we all recall, I have had a love affair Larosa’s veggie topper pan crust pizza for years, so my glorification of turkey and dressing is not all to peculiar. Ugh, I’m mad at myself. Women, you can attest to this—most dress pants are either “no button/zip” or they have a stretch waist. Well, here comes this great job where I get to actually dress like a grown up for work. No more jeans or cargo pants—it’s all about the heels, dress pants, and whole bunch of laundry that takes FOREVER to do. So anyways, I think almost a month went by where I didn’t put my jeans on. It took me so long to get used to the new schedule, I would spend any time out of business attire in track pants and sweats. Then a night came where I went out with some friends. That’s when I lost it. I could have cried. Those jeans that fit so beautifully around my waist and wrapped my butt like a Christmas present were snug. Actually they were beyond snug…DUN DUN DUNNNN—I had to suck in to button them! I had…a muffin top! *insert high shrilled scream* Pardon me, but I worked my ass off to get into those things again. What in the hell happened?! I’ll tell you what happened. I got comfortable. I slowly started slacking. “What’s an extra piece of chocolate?” “Sure, put the whole tub of Cool Whip on my pumpkin pie!” “Please pass the gravy, I can still see all my food” I guess I didn’t realize it. It takes that moment to realize that you’re heading back down the road you were on and it’s about to dead end. Of course the cold weather and minimal daylight has nixed my runs at the park, which I think REALLY made it worse. Well, I’m back at it again folks. I’m packing my lunch, drinking my water, and I just started my “Core Rhythms” which I have to say it DOES leave your abs burning. The Christmas tree is down, which means I can pull my elliptical out of hiding and the junk food is cleared out. Oh yeah, and in 3 weeks I get to meet with Dr. Gibberman to get my grill fixed!!!! More to follow on that one!!! 🙂