National What Day?

Wednesday is National Cashew Day, meanwhile we are in the midle of National Peanut Butter Lover's Month. Explain this to me! Why do we have a national day for almost every kind of food, e.g. ice cream, chocolate, sandwiches, but not any sort of national exercise day. I want a National Squat Day, where everyone goes around and gives me 10 squats. Or a National Pushup Day, where I can walk up to someone and say "Give me 20" and they drop and give me 20 pushups.

Maybe that's what is a little wrong with our nation, and honestly much of the free world. Les Mills talks about "Fighting Globesity". But we aren't just fighting ourselves, we are fighting a world where we give food that perhaps is not so good for us a national day, and people think that if they walk for 20 minutes, they have exercised enough. I was looking at the "activities" that you can earn points for in Weight Watchers. Here are a few examples of things you can earn activity points for:
Spreading dirt with a shovel
Washing the fence
Sweeping the garage
Hunting
Hmmm...and we wonder why we are fighting this ongoing battle with globesity.

Exercising isn't my issue. I got that down! Food....well, that is another story. I could tell a story about how my mother would withhold food as a punishment, etc, but in the end...I eat, either too much, not the right stuff, or really a combination of the two. You would think by now, I would have figured out the right way to eat. And I sort of have, but it is so easy to fall into bad habits. And Thursday will be a real test!

I'm finding on this journey so far that I can allow myself to be creative, try something new and I probably won't hurt anyone (although if you ask my husband, he might disagree since I made him eat "unexciting" tofu last night). I bought milled flax seed yesterday (apparently you can use it instead of oil in baking recipes!) and shallots. I have no idea what a shallot is, or what to do with it, but I am determined to give it a shot!

Today was the big Weight Watchers weigh in....drum roll, please....down 1.8 lbs from my last weigh-in which was about 3 weeks ago. I would guess that entire 1.8 was actually from the last week, so thank you to my supportive friends!!!! This week will be a test. My goal is to pass...I'm not looking for an A+ on my test, a C will work just fine the week of Thanksgiving.

So, happy national whatever day. And here's to trying something new this week!