Week 15--Power Shopping Should Count As Exercise
If only power shopping were considered to be an aerobic activity along the lines of step aerobics or kickboxing or rock climbing. If it were, I'd be one skinny Minnie.
Unfortunately, power shopping stands about as much a chance of being labeled an exercise as the USDA declaring chocolate as its own little food group. Sad, I know because lately I've been spending a lot of time power shopping for the holidays.
And that, my little merry elves, doesn't even include online shopping. So even though I zipped across the country scooping up Cyber Monday deals, that doesn't count as a calorie burner either. Apparently, the only weight loss reduction occurred in our wallets with sales up 18 percent with consumers spending about $1.2 billion. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
Week 15 of our "frying-in-my-own-fat" weight loss challenge, found me struggling to balance my food intake against my exercise output. It's easy to make excuses and break down and eat stuff when you're power shopping.
Great smelling stuff always seems to be wafting about. Stuff like those tasty pretzels from places like Auntie Anne's or Wetzel's Pretzels. But one of those tasty guys almost equals my entire allotment of calories for lunch. Sad, I know.
And let's not even get started on what frozen custard, ice cream or gelato might do to would-be dieters.
So this week found me a lot like Dory in "Finding Nemo," singing to myself. But in my song, I'm singing, "Just keep walking, walking, walking…"
It worked and was enough to whittle away another pound this week.
So all together now: "Just keep walking, walking, walking…"
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