Leida

Warning: this is silly. :) 

Was making my daily tray of crunchies, and I came to realise that not all crudite were created equal. I look lovingly at cauliflower, wistfully put most of the carrot into my husband’s tray, feel real happy when I throw raddishes in, but finally it’s time to chop the sticks… Celery.

Celery is a strange sort of vegetable. And it is a staple of dieting. Darn, the whole idea of losing weight in my mind is firmly associated with the celery sticks.

So, the carrots are high GI, poor things. But why not cucumbers? I have no long-standing feud with cucumbers, and they are just as healthy, low cal I am certain. The only problem is that they cost an arm and a leg nowadays by whatever reason, and go bad far too quickly. Celery on the other hand…

It doesn’t go bad during the between-shopping and (as my many earlier experiments convincingly showed) can last in the fridge for a long, long, looooong time.  If celery is anything, it’s sturdy. I find some stems a bit bitter - never brocolli though, funny, huh? Most times I don’t mind its taste, and crunch on it with resolve and purpose. It the kind of food that makes one feel accomplished: who would eat celery out of their own volition, should other foods be available. Well, unless the other food is plain tofu. And what’s with the strings? Sometimes I feel like opening a small rope bussiness after eating a stick of celery with all the decidedly unedible plant material left behind.

I don’t hate celery any more. I came to live with it. Well, I live, it gets consummed. One day, perhaps, I find that I am in love with it. Ha! That would be the case of ‘absence make the heart grow fonder’, I am certain.

Didn’t I warn you this was silly?

I have not yet managed to leave an entry on this blog, so this is my test message.

Short Summary: I gained 10 pounds when ttc, more pounds during pregnancy, and now the little one is two, and I still have all that extra weight. I am trying to loose about 30 lbs, to go back to 115-118 lbs I used to be Before Baby. I am participating in the Biggest Looser Challenge at work, and came in second this first week, beaten by 0.01% of the body weight by the winner.

So, my plan is to:

-replace fruit snacks with fresh veggie snacks;

-do DVD workout in the morning + walk at lunch + walking to the different train station after work to add extra 20 or so min of walking a day;

-cut out any and all sweets for the time being until I can stabilize the goal weight.

 I anticipate this week to be the most difficult because I was down to this weight (135 on my home scale) before, and always shot right back to 138-140.

The weights I enter in the tracker are from the ‘challenge’ scale. Don’t care really if I am 135 or 140, I just want to go down to the point when I don’t have mastiff’s face around my waist (sans the cuteness) and thunderous thighs.