Ah, the holidays… a time of love, hugs, snow angels and trying to keep my mother from feeding me every five minutes.
This could be a problem.
In addition to being at my parent’s house for Thanksgiving and Christmas, I recently decided to cash in some vacation time and spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve at my parent’s house in order to enjoy things like free food, heat and laundry. “I have to take advantage of the perks of being your daughter before I feel like I’m too old to take advantage of you,” is how I believe I phrased it when telling my mother I’d be hanging around. Plus, I have mucho vacation time saved up and my parents have the world’s most comfortable recliner that sounded like the perfect place to vacation. It’s my own cheap alternative to rich people vacation destinations like Hawaii or Europe. I bet those vacations don’t come with hugs and recliners!
The problem is this: my mother likes to bake. She also likes to feed me. Also, there are some deep-seated issues when it comes to dealing with my mother and body image/weight/life, but those are not something I feel like getting into. What I do feel like getting into is a pumpkin pie. My mother is really, really good at this whole baking and feeding me thing. How is a girl supposed to survive a post-Christmas week surrounded by baked goods?
Don’t get me wrong; there will be some ingestion of delicious homemade goodness. Who deprives themselves during the holidays? Stupid people. There will be pie—oh, glorious pie. But this year I hope to balance my unhealthy eating with plenty of healthiness. Also, there will also be lovely time spent running on snow-covered streets during daylight hours because I won’t have to be at work and can enjoy things like running in the cold when it is light outside. I’m hoping that by spending the week doing two things that I love (eating pie and running) it will balance out well.
I’m pretty sure I can avoid going on “vacation” and gaining 20 pounds as long as I keep in mind that I really would rather not gain 20 pounds in a week. Actually, I don’t think that is possible… is it? As of right now, I’m heading into Thanksgiving next week 73 pounds lighter (darn you, elusive 2 more pounds needed in order to hit 75). I’d like to keep it that way. Also, I would like to eat lots of pie.
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Mmm, pumpkin pie. I can hardly wait! I need to make sure that's a Bentley staple. I plan on getting my own can of cranberries this year to prevent the last Thanksgiving I was there. How does one eat turkey without cranberry sauce? I do not know.
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