Quick, everyone, Do Nothing!

I live across the street from a church, down the street from a church and up the street and around the corner from yet another church. I like to think they don't compete for congregates but it is also fun to think of them having little sit-downs about how to increase worship. A bikini carwash, I would think, is out.

Though it is the weather for it today. It's so hot I might have to put on clothes...that probably made more sense in my head than it does to you.

Anyway, in keeping up with the Churches I have set Sundays as my Day of Rest. The first two weeks it was a coincidence but now it's official. My body really needs a weekly break from training and sweating and my mind can use a break for that matter as well. Changing is hard work. Especially this real type of change where you have to be honest with yourself and be your own personal trainer, motivator. Sometimes all you really feel like doing is laying in bed reading all day. Which is probably what I will be doing today. I might be reading Shape, learning how to get glamorous Glutes, or whatever, but today I won't be doing even a single squat thrust. Not one.

It is important to think of all this not as a diet or "weight loss program," because if you do you end up feeling like it will be impossible to do the rest of your natural life...which you have just made longer by getting healthy. Everyone agrees: it should be a lifestyle change and all of those changes should be sustainable. And I am never going to be willing to give up my Do Nothing Days, nor do I think it necessary. Even at my most self-indulgent I couldn't undo the work I do during the week. I am not worried. Today isn't a "cheat" day either. I don't believe in cheat days; I believe in moderation and self-awareness. So Day of Rest doesn't mean I am going to be eating vegan Twinkies all day, especially because it would mean making vegan Twinkies. It's crazy, Shitty Corner Grocery Store doesn't seem to carry them.

I just briefly fantasized about the Boston cream donut over at Vegan Treats, hmm... Mmmm...
Bleh, no, that would mean riding out there in this heat, ugh, and then riding back with a stomach full of sugar and Palm Oil. [imaginary heat-induced vomiting] I mean, they are tasty but, uh, no thank you.
Plus: DAY OF REST!

I woke up this morning and threw my arms up over my head, which was still buried in the pillow, and shouted, into the pillow, DAY OF REST! and then had a giggle fit.

It's these little moments with myself I enjoy the most sometimes.