Excuses, Excuses

So last night I went to bed very late. That was my first problem. When I finally got settled to go to sleep, it was close to 3:30. I was just drifting off, when I heard my puppy start to throw up in his crate. To spare you from specific details, I'll simply say we were up until after 5. He threw up several times, and eventually after realizing he was not going to get comfortable in his crate, I took him downstairs where we sat together on our arm chair. It took a long time for him to get comfortable, I think his stomach was very upset, and even longer for me to begin to drift off again. By the time we were actually back in our respective beds it was far later than I'd like to relate.

Because of all this, I slept in very late today. I really had no ambition to do much, but around 6 I did get my act together. First I went tanning. While walking down Grand River, I discovered my legs were actually very sore and tired. I made a mental plan of what I wanted to do at the gym, and realized it was not going to include the treadmill or the elliptical today. I thought I'd compensate instead by doing 45 minutes on the stationary bike. After being so good this week, that isn't too much of a break.

After 20 minutes on the stationary bike my plans changed once more. My legs hurt, and it was becoming really really difficult just to get to 25 minutes. I'm sure this is when I should have pushed through the pain, and continued on...but I'm a baby. Several times I slowed down so much that the machine thought I was trying to pause it. Sigh.

I only did this for 25 minutes, and I didn't keep track of how many calories I burned. Over 100, but probably not that much more.

How did I reward myself for being so crappy? By getting McDonald's for dinner. Honestly I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm trying to get serious about losing weight, but last night my dinner was at the movie theater : popcorn, nachos, and pop! And McDonalds tonight? I'm going to cut myself a little slack for being so active though. And Monday I WILL start the South Beach. I will remain true to that. I have given my word via Blogger.

Oh well. My "spring break" is almost over. Tomorrow I have volunteering, and then I have to interview someone for my 5 page paper that's due Tuesday. That will be here before I know it! Hopefully I'll be all done writing on Sunday....but knowing me, I probably still won't have started it at that point. Oh well.

More to come tomorrow :).