Beer Belly Blues

Happy late Easter everyone!

I had a weekend full of BBQ's and a little bit of work. Friday night, Dominic and I were able to go out to dinner, a rare occasion these days since he's always working late. It was a real treat. Then we watched this movie "Rubber," which was absolutely ridiculous but pretty clever. Saturday I had to go into work for a while. It wasn't too bad though. Just six hours and it did sort of ease some of my stress about all the upcoming events at work. From there, it was off to a BBQ/Karaoke party. I had a lot of fun but drank too much and too fast, making it an earlier night than I had hoped. Sunday, I went to my folks house for an Easter BBQ.

As with all BBQ's there was quite a bit of drinking this weekend. I didn't feel too bad about this until I logged my food and realized I went WAY over my recommended daily calorie intake once I added all the beer I drank. I found this really cool website, www.mapmywalk.com, that lets you map out your walks (duh) so you know how far you've walked and how many calories you've burned. You can also log your daily food intake and other workouts, ect. It's pretty awesome and I'd recommend it to anyone trying to get fit as a way to motivate yourself. I'm also shamelessly plugging the site because you can add friends on there so you can sort of keep track of each other and have that extra bit of motivation. If any of you all decide to join it, let me know.

That being said, am I going to swear off beer drinking? That seems pretty much impossible with all the events I have coming up, not to mention all the summer BBQ's...being healthy is so hard! And I suppose I could switch to something with less calories like vodka tonics or something but I've never been much of a liquor drinker. Maybe this will just be the motivation I need to be more active to work off those extra calories.