except that I'm a slacker. I could try and come up with some fancy-schmancy reason that I haven't blogged in OVER TWO MONTHS but that would just be a lie. Sure, I've been busy but you're all busy and manage to blog. Therefore I offer my sincerest apologies and promise to try to do better.
Although it's been a while, you haven't really missed out on much. I've been doing a great job with my workouts. Between spin class, boot camp and going to the gym I've been managing to get four to six good workouts in each week. Thank God too because my eating has been so abysmal it's the only reason I'm maintaining and not gaining. I go through spurts where I do really well for about 10 to 15 days and then I'm really crappy for the next week. Then I realize that I just lost all of the ground I gained, get disgusted with myself and hop back on board. When I don't see the progress that I think I should I say fuck it (yeah, I gave up on that not swearing thing a few weeks after the new year) and start eating poorly again. It's a vicious cycle that is leading me to believe I should just throw my scale away. Anyway, I'm working on the eating thing. I've decided to become a part-time vegetarian which amounts to me maintaining a vegetarian diet every other week. I'm not one of those people who feels that a meal isn't a meal without meat and I eat a fairly plant based diet when I cook for the most part so it's not such a big leap for me. I have a lot of really tasty vegetarian recipes and I so love to cook. I know that if I just get a little discipline I'll be doing much better.
I'm really loving my exercise classes right now. Sadly I'm over half done with my boot camp. On the bright side, they just released the catalog for the next Mhealthy session which starts at the beginning of May. I'll have to take a look at what's being offered and see if there is anything I'd like to sign up for. I also just purchased my next 20-session card for spinning. I think once the summer rolls around I'll only spin once each week instead of twice. I want to try and take advantage of free, outdoor activities if at all possible. The one thing that I really want to do is get back into running. I honestly haven't been running consistently in months and will probably just need to start over. However, now that I've made the shift to working out at night, I want to focus on outdoor running as opposed to treadmill. There are a lot of really nice trails, paved and otherwise around Ann Arbor and I've never taken full advantage of that. I hope to rectify the situation this coming outdoor season.
Outside of fitness things are going well. I'm happy to announce that we survived our Joint Commission visit at work this week without me going homicidal so that's good! I'm looking forward to my back-to-back visits this spring from Jessica and Jenny!! I cannot wait to have some quality bonding time with two of my best girls! I'm also counting down the weeks (it's still a bit early to start counting days) until my trip home this summer. As of today it's 18 weeks! I know that might seem like a lot but it's been a long time and I'm chomping at the bit to get back.
I've been doing a lot of reading and a lot of watching between my bouts of physical activity. I finally managed to finish the second, painful season of
The Walking Dead. I have been reassured by several people that season three is so good it makes season two worth the effort. If they've lied to me, I will hunt them down and do unpleasant things to them. I also started watching the first season of
Breaking Bad. I don't remember who recommended it to me but it's been pretty good so far. I'll let you know what I think when I've watched more than a handful of episodes.
As for reading it's been mostly of the supernatural persuasion. The latest book in the Kim Harrison series was really good and I'm just finishing up her collection of short stories. For the most part it's a pretty solid read. I'm also trying to work through Max Brooks' books. I listened to the abridged version of
World War Z (the movie comes out this summer) and it was fantastic. It's told in a series of vignettes from various people affected by the zombie war. It intrigued me enough that I'm now waiting for the full length book from the library. While I'm waiting, I'm reading
The Zombie Survival Guide. For something that reads like a how-to manual, it's actually quite fun.
Holy crap, time really does fly when you're having fun. I have to get ready for spin class so I should go. Have a great weekend and I look forward to catching up with you as I read through the many unread posts I see before me.
