At this moment I have 272 comments on the delurking entry. That’s a big chunk of change for Camp McDowell. I’ll post a report on Friday (after adding comments for the rest of the week in) and tell you how much Camp McD will get and how much the Katrina Recovery charity will get. And I’ll post pictures of the checks or something to prove I actually donated the money and didn’t spend it all on tattoos and office supplies.
I woke up late this morning. Really late by my standards. I woke up at 4:50am. Do you know how depressing it is that 4:50am is really late? I mean, I get a lot done in the mornings and I wouldn’t have it any other way, but the former-college student in me things it is obscene how early I get up. And she finds the current me very disappointing.
Do you know what else is disappointing? I ran 5 miles last night on the treadmill. (That’s not the disappointing part.) It was a good end to a good day. I kept to my “normal” eating cycle and ate healthy but light meals while only eating a few small pieces of chocolate all day. (Damn you Office Candy Bowl. DAMN YOU.) Running those 5 miles more than erased those small pieces of candy. But then what did I do? I came home after the run and ate 5 more pieces of candy (Damn you See’s Candy. DAMN YOU.) And then? (Yes. There’s more.) I ate two brownies that MrZ just had to make last night. Yeah. I didn’t eat light enough yesterday to have the five miles cover that much gluttony.
And then - one more thing that is depressing - my new candy habit? The one caused by the damn Office Candy Bowl? Has caused me to break out. And those of you who are all, “Chocolate doesn’t really cause zits…” You don’t know my face. I rarely get break-outs anymore. I might get the occasional zit here and there, but that’s it. There are only two things that cause break-outs on my face: Copious amounts of chocolate and sunscreen. (I’m not eating the sunscreen, for the record.) And this week? My face is telling me, “BACK AWAY FROM THE CANDY BOWL, Woman.” I need to put up some sort of security system around the damn thing that shocks me whenever I go in for more candy. I just can’t resist it. It’s Evil.
Pretty much life is good except for the candy which can be blamed for all of my problems today. Wasted training runs, acne flare-ups, and sleeping too late. I’m not sure exactly how the candy is to blame for me sleeping late, but I need to blame something and surely there’s something somewhere that says overeating chocolate can disrupt your sleep cycle. You can just about find research to support anything nowadays. As a matter of fact, I’m going to go right now and look for some proof that showering daily is actually bad for you. That way I have an excuse for leaving the house looking like I do some mornings.
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I have two candy bowls in my office. The strange thing is that I don’t eat it myself if it is on the desk, but will if it is in my desk.
I love that my office is just me, my boss and my secretary and we are all perpetually dieting so we never have candy in the office. Its when I get home that the red danger lights start flashing since the hubs and kids insist we have brownies and cookies and chips in the house.
Okay just for the record…the song that just came on my ipod as I was reading this is called “Sugar Blues” How ironical is that? No candy bowls here at my office. There will be Krispy Kreme’s later however.
Well, at least you ran! I haven’t been running in almost a week! Think of it this way — you are building muscles that will increase your average daily calories burned, so in the long run, you’re still probably ahead.
I love love love See’s Candy. My boss received them as a gift for Christmas this year and they haunted me in the office. The pecan buds rock ! I am so going to order like 10 pounds and fatten myself up with them because they are so good.
So much for eating healthly this year ?!?!
Now *I* want chocolate - grrrrrr!
See’s Candy… I love See’s Candy. I grew up where there were See’s Candy stores and moved to where there were Fanny May stores… no comparison… See’s wins hands down. My aunt always sends a two pound box of Nuts & Chews for Christmas… I love her and dispise her for that. I also just found out that See’s has opened up stores in the area… OH NO!
For the showering thing, I think there was a study that said that miniscule drops of water get into your lungs when you shower and then somehow, eventually turn into cancer. So, there’s your evidence against daily showers. (Although I’m pretty sure that the study was proven incorrect, but we can just ignore that part, right?)
Um, all my meals were totally light yesterday. Then I hate half a tub of popcorn.
***sigh***
Hi there! Just de-lurking to say hi! The past holiday season has been evil for chocolate….everyone seemed compelled to give me chocolate for Christmas. I just had a baby and I am trying to LOSE the baby weight people, not gain more on top of it!!
Hey, just eat the candy and run 6 miles…ahahaha, from one who can’t run to the mailbox and back…hehehe
Just delurking… I’ve left a few comments before, but mostly I lurk. I’m in the “I can read more if I don’t comment” camp too.
I think that running 5 miles probably covers the chocolate and candy. You don’t do that every day (the brownies and such). Don’t beat yourself up!
I have much, much to ask you.
ONE: 4:50 am? What possible reason could you have for waking up at 4:50 am? THAT is what sounds evil to me. EVIL!
TWO: Is it abnormal that I’m actually interested in what you’re eating daily? That way I can do the same thing. See? I’m copying you. Consider it flattery, not compulsive blog stalking.
THREE: I totally agree that chocolate makes you break out. Well, not YOU, personally. But people. In general. For me, I get these tiny, watery-like zits when I eat chocolate.
Huh. I just realized that I’ve been eating a lot of chocolate lately, and that my face is a little broken out.
You totally just helped me figure out how to clear up my skin.
(Thanks!)
I’d be scared to death to donate money for every post. You have a largly read site and it could get big.
Showering daily IS a actually bad for you…well…bad for your hair, anyway. They SAY you’re not supposed to wash your hair every day because it destroys some of the “natural oils”…but, dammit, showering and NOT getting your hair wet takes magic! And if it’s wet, you might as well wash it, right?!
But I am living proof (well, at least for me) that chocolate doesn’t cause zits. Hormones do. Doesn’t being a woman suck sometimes?!
Damn it all to hell !!!!!! Our stupid router is going out or something…we don’t have a reliable internet connection right now! i would have commented yesterday…but I couldn’t!
Tell Steve to buy some kind of candy you don’t like.
But don’t you find that running makes you hungrier? On the nights that I run, I usually want to eat more for dinner. Or chocolate, but then I pretty much always am ready to eat chocolate.
I have dreams about See’s candy, especially now that I can’t get them where I live. I am incapable of leaving a certain shopping mall without buying one milk-chocolate covered vanilla cream and one peppermint cream (and then of course the free sample). And then I eat all of it right there outside the Apple store. (Happy DeLurking Week to you!)
To help you with the last one, showering daily is actually bad for you, at least if you have sensitive skin (which you have, otherwise you wouldn’t brake out from eating to much chocolate) and use soap when you shower. At least my dermatologist told me so. His advise: shower twice a week with soap, and wash with washcloth under armpits other days. Alternative: do shower daily, but with only water. Maybe you can mix and match until you come up with something justifying your routine?
I am intimidated by all the comments
Also, I too am breaking out and I hate hate hate it because I honestly thought it would stop when my age no longer ended in -teen. Gr.
Hi…just de-lurking (again)
doesn’t chocolate contain caffiene? i mean a very small amount, but still. if you were consuming more caffiene than normal, and you still had it in your system when you went to bed, then it could have taken more sleep to feel as rested as normal.
don’t you love my logic? blame the chocolate!
Darn you! Now I want some chocolate!!!!
I ran three miles today (pushing the Wah extra credidt!!) Thank goodness because my chocolate habit is out of control and so are my pants..
Seriously 4 :50 am, I didn’t think that was humanly possible. My 3 year once woke up at 6:00 am, my husband picked her up and put her back in bed and told her it was too early to get up. She now sleeps to at least 9:30 every morning. We even had to wake her up on Christmas morning at 10:30.
Im With you Zoot - Chocolate DOES cause zits! I never had pimples in my life until i started my new job where there is ALWAYS chocolate going around our office = MAJOR Breakouts CONSTANTLY….. Im on my 2nd week of eating absolutely not 1 piece of chocolate and my skin is blemish free…..Dear Lord I would LOVE some chocolate right now!
Now I need some chocolate. Ummm sweet chocolate
[...] Miss Zoot was writing the other day about how waking up at 4:50am is late for her. I honestly can’t imagine getting up that early every day, she does admit that it is crazy early. Yet she gets up at 5am still, is this a Mum thing? When I have kids am I going to be willing to sacrifice all that beautiful sleep between 5 and 6 or 7? I really can’t see it, but I guess sometimes you are willing to do crazy things to make sure other things get done. [...]