So I return from the children’s hospital emergency room this morning (the boy is fine, but what a scare), and I check my e-mail to find feedback from the body tutor (TBT). Couldn’t you have eaten fruit instead of popcorn at that truck stop, he asks, and, oh, by the way, he says, walking doesn’t count as exercise. Does it count if you’re dragging a 2-year-old in one hand and hauling his Spiderman tricycle in the other, while you desperately try to keep up with your nieces, who speed along on their bicycles… in 90+ degree heat?
Aargh, I’m discouraged. Already. I mean, I hired this guy to kick my ass, but can we have some compassion, please? [Update: he, of course, had no idea of current state of mind upon receiving the e-mail, because he was just reacting to last night’s e-mail from me. He also hadn’t gotten the full description of the walking extravaganza described above.] I am exhausted after a 5-hour drive plus a 2-hour plane trip (plus a 1 hour travel delay). I got in at midnight-ish; the boy woke up at 6; and then we got to go to the hospital all emergency-like this morning. (Imagine trying to keep an energetic 2-year-old entertained during hospital-like waits.) The kid himself even fell asleep before we pulled out of our parking space. But I don’t want to be the kind of person who makes excuses…
Anyway, I’m really just letting off steam. I ate just fine when I got home — eggs + chicken on a whole grain tortilla. (We passed up stopping for fast food, though it was very tempting.) And now, excuse me, I must be getting back to work.
P.S. I should add that (besides letting off steam here) I DID go back to TBT with my request for compassion, and I got some more encouraging feedback. Mood lightened a little already. 
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how can walking not count!? it’s what you can fit in to your life, it’s realistic, it’s exercise dammit. GRRRR.
glad hear your wee man is doing ok now xx
Comment by shauna 09.07.07 @ 1:30 pm