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Summer Thus Far I hear tell that it's hot out there. It's hard to avoid talk of the heat of summer, because it seems to be everywhere - people on the radio talking about how it's a scorcher out there! and people in the grocery store talking about what a relief the icy cold meat department is. I believe, however, I have finally discovered a way to avoid the heat completely: keep so busy during the summer that you're never around to notice that the temperatures all begin with a 9. Since the last week of June my weeks have been: up at 7:30, shower, drive to work, work til 4:45, drive to rehearsal, rehearse til 10:00 (10:30 now that we open next week), drive home, collapse into bed. Even our poorly insulated house is cool at 11:30 PM, especially when you combine the weak air conditioner with the magic of the ceiling fan. That's Monday through Thursday, and then there's the weekends, which haven't exactly been free. There was Erica's wedding reception and the baseball game with my family. There was a short weekend in NYC for Gabriel's new show and breakfast with Larry and a last-minute ticket to Thoroughly Modern Millie. There was the 4th of July, quiet barbecue at home, much sleeping, but still crowded. There was Toronto Trek, this past weekend (more on that later). This weekend we have a family luau (don't ask) to go to and we plan to do much lying in the basement and watching of DVDs and sleeping (glorious sleep), and then Annie Get Your Gun opens next Friday and runs two weekends. Oh, and I'm going to the American Idol tour (shut up) with Steve on the 27th (leaving right from the AGYG matinee) and then the closing AGYG weekend I'm also having auditions for the production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (the newest revival version) that I'm directing the first two weekends of October. So...I hear it's hot. Outside. Where I haven't been. Is it? I've been doing Weight Watchers online (with the support of other WW people at The Usual Suspects for two and a half weeks. I have lost six pounds. I am very happy about this, and because I am crazy busy and never home, it has been very easy to stay on program thus far. I even ate like a hog on the 4th and still lost 3.5 pounds that first week. Shorts that didn't fit three weeks ago fit again and oh, I am pleased. I am about to dip down into a weight range that I haven't seen in...oh, I have no idea. I am not carrying around a ton of extra weight, but 12-15 pounds extra makes a huge freaking difference, especially when you are carrying it in your hips and thighs. The really frustrating thing has been the people who hear I'm on WW and look sort of disgusted and say Why? Er...because I'm unhappy with my weight. These are usually people who are heavier than I am, and while I understand that this may be born out of their own frustration with themselves at not being on a diet or their genuine surprise that I would diet, it has gotten really old. Dieting is not reserved for those who need to lose thirty (or fifty, or a hundred) pounds. I resent the implication from a couple of people that because I am not overweight I am not allowed to be unhappy with the way my body looks. Why do some women turn weight loss into a contest? I'm not being judgemental about the way other people eat; I think I should be allowed to eat the way I choose to eat without comment. It's not like I'm on a starvation diet here - people, I just ate a Pop Tart for God's sake. I'm eating well and enough and I'm no hungrier than I was pre-diet, and this is working. I feel better about myself, and it's certainly been a long time since that happened. My summer, right now, is work - AGYG - Weight Watchers. Our house is a mess and I've hardly seen Greg in over a week. We'll catch up this weekend, and I am really looking forward to that. Maybe I'll even find some of this so-called "heat" you all speak of. |
