{"id":932,"date":"2012-01-07T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2012-01-07T16:37:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:37:33","slug":"health-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"The New Health Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, we are in a bit of a quandary about this New Health Regime<\/a> thing now. And, yes, this is me making excuses about why the regime takeover has yet to commence.<\/p>\n

But, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re valid excuses.<\/p>\n

First of all, we just got back on Monday from being out of town for two weeks, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still trying to get everything back in order. (Wow, now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written it, that one sounds super lame.)<\/p>\n

Also, we need to restock the house with diet-friendly foods.<\/p>\n

If I go into this prepared, I suck at this.<\/p>\n

If I go in unprepared, I suck more.<\/p>\n

So, I need to be prepared.<\/p>\n

And then, as LCB and I began discussing the New Health Regime, we realized that LCB has a myriad of business meetings involving restaurant meals and an abundance of 18 hours or more work days this month, which will prove a challenge to both his diet and his ability to exercise.<\/p>\n

So, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to decide how best to approach this, since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d really prefer to do it with him rather than alone.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we have decided on a pre-diet diet.<\/p>\n

You heard me correctly.<\/p>\n

And there will not be one of you who won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t roll your eyes at this next part, but I am so totally serious here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I made a cheesecake.<\/p>\n

Okay, go ahead, roll away. I know, I know.<\/p>\n

But seriously, the cheesecake is totally justified. LCB loves cheesecake, and since we went back to the old house at the last minute for the holidays, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to make him a cheesecake for Christmas like I had originally promised.<\/p>\n

So, delivering on my promise is the honorable thing to do here.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there is one other thing. On Thursday, when we were out shopping for the Epiphany present<\/a> for the small people, leftover Christmas candy turned out to be 75% off at the grocery store. LCB and I each grabbed a handful of bags, and then, as we were walking away, all of a sudden, LCB stops and says, verbatim, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wait. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have two bags per family member here. We need more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

I laughed and then paused when I realized he was being serious. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But what about the New Health Regime?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I asked, hesitant about buying more chocolate for perhaps the first time in my life.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep. Grab some more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

And so we both did.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you care to know, we now have 22 bags of chocolate sitting on our kitchen counter. That means I will have probably thousands of little pieces of chocolate, all calling out to me with their little seductive chocolaty voices while I try to stick to some reduced-calorie meal plan soon. And, I can already see myself picking out all of the red and silver pieces to dish off at some function requiring Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day candy. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always laughed at the idea of doing this. Until now.<\/p>\n

And sorry, LCB, but chocolate does<\/em> lose some of its flavor after it sits around for a while, so I may feel pressured to consume it during its prime. LCB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a diagnosed chocoholic, so he wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we need to adjust our decision-making matrix a bit on this one.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come across a handful of diet and fitness posts on various blogs this week, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just take this moment to warn you now. This blog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach will not likely be much like the other diet and fitness approaches posted out there.<\/p>\n

An Island Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not really going to be about diet and exercise advice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Or best practices.<\/p>\n

But, on the upside, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already managed to involve cheesecake and chocolate, and I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even started.<\/p>\n

How about all of you? Are any of you on a pre-diet diet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, we are in a bit of a quandary about this New Health Regime thing now. And, yes, this is me making excuses about why the regime takeover has yet to commence. But, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re valid excuses. First of all, we just got back on Monday from being out of town for two weeks, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[813,80,814,105,100,465,810,809,811,815,812],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-bad-diet-advice","tag-beach-life","tag-having-fun-on-a-diet","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-island-mom","tag-living-more-healthy","tag-new-years-dieting","tag-pre-diet-cheesecake","tag-pre-diet-diets","tag-the-chocolate-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}