It is easier to be fat...

1. Being active is more work than not (being active).

Let's be real - there is a lazy person trapped in side of me screaming to get out. Usually the over-acheiver in me wins but just for a second, what if... I laid on the sofa all the time, quit all the extras in my life - including bicep curling a 2 yr old for fun and just ate whatever, whenever. 

 

#Healthy 0 - Fat 1

2. Winter and rain makes it easier to be fat and
I really believe this and not just because I feel like I've been in a perpetual state of winter FOREVER....and there are more cold and bad weather months than warm weather ones.  No...mainly because in my recent travels to Mexico and Florida where the temperature was consistently over 72 degrees - my body told me to do all the things that the cold weather tells me I can put off until tomorrow like: eat a salad instead, let's go running, hold your abs in, we should really workout today. The winter says things like - oh its too cold to run outside, there isn't enough day light once you get off work to get those 3 miles in and maybe we should snuggle on the sofa for a while...

 

#Healthy 0 - Fat 2

3. Water is not made equally...
Lemonade always tastes like lemonade. I suspect sweet tea always tastes like sweet tea (I don't drink it). Soda always tastes like soda (except in Mexico) but water...no, water varies depending on where you are, how much ice, the quality of the water, the cup it is in. It is much easier to choose something that despite the 400 calories I won't notice I've taken in, will taste good regardless especially when the alternative is a weird look when I say I've brought my own water with me or ask for a whole lemon to mask the lack of floride used in the filtering process.

 

#Healthy 0 - Fat 3

4. Counting calories sucks
So the growing trend in dining out is to make this easier as everyone tells you how many calories are in that nugget meal or that those garlic mashed potatoes are not in the "under 500 calories" section of the menu....but short of having an excuse to look busy and important on your phone - WHO is excited about recapping and strategically planning their food intake in hopes to stay somewhere between 12-1500 calories per day including snacks and that happy hour you promised to attend on the day you decided you wanted chicken fingers and french fries for lunch? WHO? It is always easier to eat whatever you want and hope/pray that it doesn't end up on your thighs - figuratively speaking of course!

 # Healthy 0 - Fat 4

 

While I'm not sure that I want to take the road less traveled all the time...I guess I will continue to fight the good for healthy. I'll keep doing things other than sitting on my sofa, dream of warm weather while I run on the treadmill, continue to request extra lemon or byow...but the calorie counting... *sigh* I guess I will do that too.

 

All for the love of healthy! And losing this toddler!