Halloween scares me — for real!

I love the smell of chocolate.  I love walking down the candy aisle at the store and smelling all the candy and looking at all the pretty colors. 

Halloween is so evil.  The candy is everywhere you go!

I went to the grocery store today because I had to pick up some beer for my husband (he’s still resisting this lifestyle change – although he’s getting a bit better) and because I had to make a deposit at the bank that’s inside the store.   After finishing my business at the bank, I noticed that I was completely surrounded by CANDY!

While my son was ooooohing and aaaaahing over all the different selections, I was gripping the handle of the cart fiercely and wishing I had blinders on.  And then he asked me the dreaded question, “Aren’t you going to get some Halloween candy for the trick-or-treaters, Mom?” 

I have been avoiding this.  I don’t want candy in my house, because if it’s there — I EAT IT!  It doesn’t matter if it’s before Halloween or after Halloween, if it’s in the house, it calls to me.  It BEGS me to eat it.  I’m weak.  I can’t resist.

So I agreed and picked up a couple of bags of candy.

But as I walked through the aisles, the smell of the miniature chocolate Snickers bars and Milky Ways just got to me.  I couldn’t handle it. 

“I CAN’T DO IT!”

My son thought I had completely lost it at this point.  I grabbed the bag of candy and threw it back on the shelf.

“We’re getting THIS instead!”  I grabbed some of the nastiest candy that I could find — all the different types that I hated.  Butterfingers (eww) and lollipops (not my thing since I wore pigtails) and toffee and all the ones that I picked out of my plastic pumpkin when I was a little girl because it was just GROSS.  Then I proceeded to run (not walk) as quickly as I could to the check-out lane. 

And I made it.  I’m safe.

Now the only problem that I have is when my son goes trick-or-treating and then decides that he wants to leave all his candy for the Black Tooth Fairy.  She’s also known as the Cavity Witch.

She comes to visit on Halloween and if you leave your candy out for her, she’ll take it away and replace it with a really cool toy or gift.  The more candy you leave her, the better the present.  My son always leaves her the candy.

So I informed my husband tonight that whatever candy is leftover from Halloween MUST be taken out of the house the next day and given to all his buddies or dumped in the trash.  The temptation is just too much for me.

I’m weak — but at least I know it.

Wednesday Workout

I was a bit more jazzed up for Wednesday’s workout and went to the gym without dragging my feet. 

They weighed us and measured our body fat, but I wasn’t quite awake yet I suppose — I forgot to get my body fat information.  I’ll ask on Friday when I go back.  But — my weight on their evil scale was 199.  Apparently, I lost 2 pounds over the past week though!

I wasn’t truly prepared to weigh myself.  I wanted to go at least two weeks without getting on the scale (I tend to obsess), but they wanted to document my progress.  So I gave in.

My workout was the following:

• Segment 1:    2 minutes – Warm-up at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 1)
• Segment 2:    3 minutes – Warm-up at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 2)
• Segment 3:    2 minutes – Walk/Run at 4-6% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 4:    4 minutes – Walk with shoulder press at at 6-8% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 5:    2 minutes – Walk/Run at 8-10% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 6:    2 minutes – Walk at 4-6% incline (Heart Rate Zone 2)
• Segment 7:    4 minutes – Walk and window washers at 6-8% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 8:    2 minutes – Walk/Run at 8-10% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 9:    2 minutes – Walk/Run at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 4)
• Segment 10:  2 minutes – Walk at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 2)
• Segment 11:  4 minutes – Walk at 4-6% incline (Heart Rate Zone 2)
• Segment 12:  4 minutes – Walk and dumbbell curl and press with tricep ext at 6-8% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 13:  2 minutes – Walk/Run at 8-10% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 14:  4 minutes – Walk at 4-6% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 15:  4 minutes – Walk and 1 arm push downs at 6-8% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 16:  2 minutes – Walk/Run at 8-10% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 17:  2 minutes – Walk/Run at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 4)
• Segment 18:  3 minutes – Cool down at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 3)
• Segment 19:  2 minutes – Cool down at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 2)
• Segment 20:  2 minutes – Cool down at 2% incline (Heart Rate Zone 1)

I spoke with my doctor on Tuesday and asked him about the breathing test that they wanted to perform (you know, the one that costs $140).  He thought it was a bunch of nonsense and suggested that I just listen to my body.  I agree and really don’t know that I want to pay that much for a personal analysis of my pulse rate. 

These people keep being pushy though.  It’s to the point that I’m starting to dislike going.  The only real positive thing that I feel like I’m getting at this point is the fact that I love having a designated “appointment time”.  I keep questioning whether I should continue in this class since I feel like they’re just a bunch of money-hungry people that don’t seem all that interested in my personal well-being.

They must be paid on commission.