I had my second appt with the nutritionist today. And I weighed 10.5 lbs more than I did the first time I went. EXCUSE ME? I've been running at least 2 miles a day for the past month and I GAIN that much weight? unacceptable. I have a feeling it was from a medication I was put on around the same time I last visited her. So, I took myself off of it. 10 lbs. Gross. (And if anyone comments "it's muscle gain" I will find you and slug you in the gut).
One of the things she urged me to do was to combine my fiber and veggie intake. Fine. Green beans, celery, carrots it's all good I can do it. And then she said "eat more beets". OK, number one, I don't even eat them to begin with. And number 2, it's 2007. Does anyone even sell beets anymore? Whenever i think of beets I think of Dwight Schrute's family farm and I giggle. So beets? I don't think so. I'll stick with the 4 bean deli salad that everyone laughs at me for eating cause i look like I'm 65 years old at a church picnic.
And THEN she told me that i need to keep my hands busy when i sit at the table waiting for my kids to finish eating so i am not tempted to eat more myself. I said "any suggestions?". First she mentioned doing my nails. But i really can't do that cause they'll inevitably get messed by me slapping myself in the face to stay awake while they're still tacky. Or pulling Sofia and Jack off of eachother as they fight over the apple juice. So then she said "how bout cross stich? Or crochet?". Have you MET me? Crochet or knitting takes me back to an EIU production of Dancing at Lughnasa where my friend Katie and I spent a good portion of our stage time knitting. We had grand plans for that knitting. We envisioned a huge afghan or beautiful wool scarves for all of our friends to be done by the end of the run. But really what we came up with every night were little blue traingle/rectangle/circles.
So cross stitch? I'm going to do it. And my first project is going to be a cross stitch of a couple beets above the number 10.5 and I'm going to give it to my nutritionist to hang on the wall.
After my meeting i threw my notes in the car and strapped on the ipod. And I started running. And I ran the Fox Trot 5k route. This is the first 5K I'm going to running on May 28th. And I actually ran it. I couldn't believe it. I was "beet" *(it all comes full circle, doesn't it) red when I finished. And I was still red an hour later. Behold! The first sun burn of the season! Welcome summer 2007!
I remember when i was in middle school and we had to run "the bear" in gym class, which was only a mile and i was always the fat out of shape girl who came in last cause I would walk the whole thing. I wouldn't even try. Oh, if Mr. Kottkamp and Mrs. Patterson could see me now. Sure I'm still fat and out of shape, but they'd be very proud of my cross stitch.
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