Holiday Hassles....

So, tis the season....to be annoyed.

I love Christmas - we both do. Lights! Cards! Presents! Snow! Christmas is fantastic!

But, there's also: crowded stores, bitchier people than usual, cookies and candy EVERYWHERE and ridiculous new people at the gym desperately trying to get thin before New Years. Ugh!

I think this time of year is where dieting gets derailed....

It's cold out. My bed is warm. The gym involves getting dressed (in layers), scraping ice off my windshield and driving in a frigid car for 10 mins. Or, I could stay in my PJ's, under the covers and sleep for another 2 hours. Decisions, decisions.

Now, I'm not stupid...I know I NEED to go the gym. It just seems a lot easier to go when it's nice out.

Let's add sickness to our list of things that suck about this time of year. I've been coughing for 10 days. I'm so sick of hearing myself cough, I could scream. I'm also seriously suffering during my cardio - more than 5 mins results in wheezing, then coughing. Yuck. I'm doing more weights, and more reps - but I just want to be back at 100% and back to doing cardio every day.

For D he's been plagued by some pretty awful migraines and nose bleeds.
Yup, winter = dry skin = nose bleed. Frankly, it's nasty.

D says, "My biggest annoyance is that for some reason people feel like they need to turn into Betty Fucking Crocker at Christmas time. Because it's Christmas people think they have an all-exclusive fat ass food pass. Like somehow God Almighty will come down and forgive you for eating another plate of brownies. No! This is bullshit. Your ass needs to go to the gym, stat. **

Because it's Christmas...and the next holiday is New Years, some people have decided to make their resolutions early. This means resolving to go to the gym everyday - and annoy the hell out of people who were going before it was a holiday trend. February can't come fast enough. I figure by then the ShortTermers will give up and go back to being fat. At least, I hope so. Who else is going to eat all the Valentine's Day candy stocking shelves by mid-January?

In the past week we also both had bad clothing encounters. I bought D a pea coat for Xmas - but I bought it online because it was on sale. It arrives, and looks huge. He tries it on only to discover that it fits (not loosely) and looks ugly. This leads to huge discouragement...feeling like you've come so far only to have those feelings dashed when something doesn't fit.

I got a pair of jeans that "looked" like they might be my size...only to try them on and find out they were nowhere close. Ack. Little things make it seem like you've accomplished nothing so far.

More soon....
Love,
*US

*Note: The picture we chose for this entry makes us laugh. Who actually eats fruitcake?!