sistah-friends!

Well, I too have been chuckling about renaming the blog 'sistersinchristcanexercise' -- not sure why that tickles me so much, but it does. Suffice it to say i feel plenty welcomed and there's no need to change the name on my account; we can just think of it in the "sistah-friend" way.

For Beth: the thing I learned when I rejoined WW last week is that they've done away with Flex vs. Core, and now they just have one plan, called "Momentum." It looks to me like this new plan is essentially the flex plan, with a little extra attention given to what they call 'filling foods' -- essentially the core foods from the old plan. I never did do core -- my problem isn't so much eating junk as it is portion size, so Flex with its focus on weighing and measuring usually works better for me. That's not to say that, a la Sarah, I don't enjoy a peanut m&m once in a while -- but, you know, peanuts, protein, 'filling food' -- one can easily justify! But anyway: good for you for doing it on your own -- and doing it when you are living the sleep-deprived life of the new mother -- that is impressive!

For Amy: I respect your right to do the tape measure, but I'm not going there anytime soon! I'm happy to register changes in the way my clothes fit (not that this has happened yet), but for me there's something demoralizing about the tape measure. Plus it has shades of Toni Zarr, and that can't be entirely good.

On to exercise. My goal is to exercise five days/week, and I'm realizing that Wednesday may have to be one of my off days: I work 9-6 and then go to rehearsal from 7-10, and, since I simply will never be one of those "get-up-at-5:00a.m.-and-hit-the-gym" people, there's not much space in there. In better weather i could go for a walk downtown during the day, but in our current constant-blizzard state, Wednesday = day off. So, i will check in with reports of virtue tomorrow!