Tomorrow morning, we're heading to my parent's house for Thanksgiving. We'll be there until Saturday afternoon. I'm taking my wii. Yes, you read that right. I'm taking my wii on a three day trip. I could workout without my wii for the rest of the week. Hell, I design workouts (albeit water ones) for a living. I don't need my wii. Except, I do and here's why.
I have four security blankets in this weight loss journey - the My Fitness Pal app, my scale, the wii, and this website with all you wonderful people. As fabulously supportive as you guys are, I'm really a numbers gal. You help me find my motivation, but the other three are my accountability.
I'm not taking my scale with me this weekend. It wouldn't do me any good anyway. All my mom's floors are carpeted. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Even the kitchen and bath room are carpeted. Why?!?!? It came carpeted, but they've lived there for 22 years now. I don't understand. Whatever, my scale won't read right on carpeted floors, so it's not going.
My Fitness Pal is going either depress, frighten, or nauseate me. I have come to terms and am okay (kind of) with this. I'm going for not insane tomorrow. I will attempt to stay on track Friday and Saturday. The reality, however, is that I did not stock the fridge and I have no idea how it's going to go.
That leaves me with one security blanket left. This morning, I did the Crazy Eights workout with the intention of getting my wii workout in this afternoon. Unfortunately, the best laid plans and all that. So, I'm already one workout behind with more scheduled both on Friday and Saturday. Being three workouts behind on the wii will be hell to make up. Plus, I'm a little nervous I'll slip into my old routines back at home and not work out at all.
Who am I kidding? I'm terrified. It would be soooooo easy to slide back into old routines back home. Plus, if I let one thing slide, it'll be so much easier to let another, and another, and...... You get the picture.
So, I'm going to grope blindly behind the TV tomorrow morning to unhook our wii. It's going with me and I'm going to commandeer my parent's TV or run over to my sister's house (she'll be out of town). I'm going to exercise because I can have complete control over it. I can see the numbers with my calories burned. It will help me keep my goals in sight.
Yes, carting a wii around for a three day trip is a bit extreme, but it's my security blanket. If we left my daughter's elephant blankie at home, you can damn well bet we'd be turning that car around the second she realized it. Hers is warm and super soft with cute pink elephants. Mine is hard, cold, and plastic. I don't care. I'm taking it anyway.