I noticed last night driving home from work at 7:30pm that the sun was still out, and then again this morning at 5:30am.. the days are getting longer and longer. Usually this is exciting for me because I love summer, but because I'm on this shopping cleanse, it seems a little unfair. Longer days means more hours I want to shop! If anyone else out there plans to do a cleanse themselves, let me recommend starting in winter, when it's socially acceptable to hole up in your apartment for hibernation season.
I also noticed that exercising sooooo much willpower on resisting shopping may be draining my willpower reserves for other things, like controlling calorie intake. I went to Dunkin Donuts yesterday for some egg-white wakeup wraps (2 for dinner!), and they screwed up and gave me regular egg. The girl noticed and made me two new ones with egg white...and I ate all four! Seriously, I just sat in my car running errands chowing down on these little breakfast wraps one after the other for ten minutes. Where is my dietary judgement!? Oh, I know, sucked up by my anti-shopping campaign.
Ironically, the numbers don't lie, and when I stepped on the scale this morning, I was down (?!) a few pounds from last week (but I also ate like a water buffalo on vacation in Cancun two weeks ago so I suppose it couldn't get any WORSE), which made me wonder about when this shopping cleanse is over...will I head into the nearest Express and slip into a size 0 jeans? Or will I head over to Lane Bryant for a new wardrobe? If I don't start spreading my willpower over multiple areas of my life (and general consumption), I think all my hard work in not shopping will be undone in having to buy a new wardrobe 2 sizes bigger!
But in my defense, I did wake up at 5:10am this morning to head to BodyPump class at Gold's & then went for a 30 minute cardio workout on the elliptical so some semblance of willpower is still intact...now just to keep this up so that when I do finally splurge on a pair of True Religions, they can be a 26 or 27, not a 40 (is that even a size?)
By the way, check out www.softpaws.com ...Cinco de Mayo colors for Ari?
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