sin tax

So as mentioned in my last blog I started Weight Watchers this past week. First off, counting sucks! According to WW, a margarita is worth 5 points... well the simple math would be 5X7 margaritas = 35 points, WRONG. Apparently when one item is consumed in large quantities they have to add on a "sin tax"and so 7 margaritas at once is close to 40pts! Good thing I didn't eat much earlier in the day and a good thing I didn't drive home that evening!

As far as activity - This past spring right before it got really hot, Rex bought me a pretty new cruiser bike. All summer I would literally pet it and promise it that as soon as it cooled off we'd be best friends again. So Monday night, first night of WW, it happened to be a cool, nice evening. So I hopped on my bike (who still needs a name) and we headed off for a nice 30 minute ride. So like I said, it is a cruiser and that's usually how I ride it - nice and easy peddling here and there. Well I figured to make it count I'd pedal the entire time long and hard. So I take off through the neighborhood and went up and down hills - which is a bitch on a cruiser! I finally make it home, panting and covered in the hives - I get the hives if you look at me wrong! I am convinced I'd been riding for hours, or at least 30 minutes! WRONG - I get back, strip out of my sweaty clothes and look at Rex and pushed out the words, "so how long do you think I was gone for?!" "Ten minutes!" " What?!" So yeah, the next bike ride I didn't kill myself and though I only lasted ten minutes again, it went much easier. Maybe by next year I can ride more than 5 times around the block! :)

The rest of the week has been pretty good other than I am peeing more than a woman who is prego! Damn those two liters of water a day! I just hope I've lost at least a couple of pounds - if anything I've pissed it out!