December is Strut your Stuff month

Why Strut your Stuff?

Strutting is an act of walking with your chest out & your head held high in order to show off.
It is also a method used to appear more confident and to make yourself feel good.

And by god--that's what December will be about. Pretending to feel good and maybe that will actually help me feel good.

This Thanksgiving weekend was a bust. Thanksgiving itself was fine. I ate perfectly controlled portions, skipped the point-heavy foods if I didn't really want them, and even went for a walk with my nephins to counteract the food frenzy. I made an excellent low-fat, low-sugar Too-Good-to-Deny Pumpkin Pie from Hungry Girl's recipe.

And even Friday was fine--I worked on cleaning most of the day so I wasn't stuck with nothing to do except eat. That came Friday night after making the mistake of buying a bag of Baked Lays and two bars of Dove chocolate. I mostly finished the chips on Friday night & had quite a bit of chocolate. Saturday I did finish the chips. And continued eating. And didn't go out at all until later that evening. But I got NO exercise. I stayed in bed reading most of Saturday, and then did nothing on Sunday but eat and watch TV and sleep. I didn't have a ton of fatty foods, but I certainly wasn't getting in my vegetables or paying attention to how many points I was eating.

And the fact that I was just moving from the bed to the kitchen to the couch to the bathroom most of those two days didn't help my energy level either. Anyway--I actually should be down with tonight's weigh in because last week I was up and it seems every other week is reflected in the weigh-in. But I've just been in a bummer of a mood lately.

So in order to counteract that, I want to strut my stuff this month--if only to help trick myself into feeling better. Shoulders back, puppies out, wearing my best, looking my best, long strides, head up, looking the world in the eye with a smile. I'm sexy and I know it. I'm going to strut it.

Watch out world--here comes Julia

Tomorrow, the first step of the plan.

Until next time