Okay, the holidays are great. Kids home from points around the country, conviviality, warmth, etc etc.
BUT - Dad is (as I always have been in the thirty years of my marriage) the designated chef. Have developed some discipline for nutrition the other 51 weeks of the year. This week is a nutritional catastrophe: baking (cookies, pies, cakes, rolls, biscuits, breads, etc) and cooking - I stand at the counter and try to avoid eating what I cook. Not to mention the fact that my twenty-something kids are all connoisseurs of fine beers (they tell me it’s not an oxymoron) and wine (my bad - I got them there).
Failing miserably. Daily caloric intake looks more like the rising national debt in terms of significant digits. Don’t even want to think about content of fat and simple sugars.
Trying to counteract by increasing running mileage over the next few days, but THAT’s a drop in the energy-balance bucket.
Any of you who face this challenge have any suggestions? Or should I just hunker down, submit, and pay the piper starting on Wednesday when the nest is empty again??
Any of you who face this challenge have any suggestions? Or should I just hunker down, submit, and pay the piper starting on Wednesday when the nest is empty again??
its just a week !
enjoy yourself, fix it with all the “New Year’s Resolutioners” come jan. 02nd…
I would suggest drink lots of water and make sure you get your fiber
(self explainatory)
I say- relax and enjoy the family. Eat drink and be Merry. There is only a limited amount of damage you can do in 5 days, and by the time it’s over you’ll be craving healthy food again! Not like your kids are going to allow you to sit on the couch all day
Enjoy Holidays!!! We are so healthy (compared to majority of people) the rest of the year…
It has been 3 Fridays in a row that I have partys and go to bed at 4AM (drunk…). I really have fun and enjoy it, bc the rest of the year I can’t do that with IM training. Have fun and kick your bu** starting on Jan. 3rd.
I always feel a little better if I’m sure to get in my fruits and veggies along with all the crap. 'Tis the season to enjoy, so enjoy it. Your kids sound great.
What’s on the menu? I’m always interested in trying new things…
