Cutting Down

Mr. D recently decided to institute a few practices to help him “maintain his figure.”  The first of which is that he has decided that he is going to cut back on his alcoholic intake.  Usually, Mr. D would have a cocktail or two in the evenings after dinner, or the two of us would split a bottle of wine.  I never really thought about it, but we were having an adult beverage probably 5 nights a week.  Once we thought about it, I felt bad, but not once we started talking to coworkers, some of who have cocktails then split at least a bottle of wine.  So, Mr. D, and I, his faithful companion have both decided that we would try to cut down the adult beverages to three nights a week.  Since then, we’ve been pretty good about it, though we have had to make allowances.  For instance, I knew that three would not be feasible for the first week, as we had a dinner at our house, another dinner out, and two work events, but we’ve been fairly good since then.

 

The second part of his plan is that he has started walking to and from work, which is one big block and ten little blocks away (read 1.2 miles), but it doesn’t usually take him much longer than it would for him to take the subway.  Since the weather has been so nice, I decided that I should try to walk to work one day, even though my office is considerably farther (read 2.2 miles).  Friday was a particularly lovely day, and I felt I had gorged on ice cream sandwiches at work the day before (two office birthdays in one week equals cupcakes and ice cream sandwich overload), I decided to walk to work.  The walk took me around 40 minutes, and I still had time to stop at Starbucks for an iced coffee (which was also rationalized away by the walk, I realized two things:  1) walking with traffic lights takes a little longer than just normal walking, and 2) I’ve been right all along – elliptical machines do not track the actual distance you “run,” because if I can walk more than 2 miles in 40 minutes, it certainly doesn’t take me  28 minutes to “run” a mile.  Ha, so there, elliptical manufacturers.

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