Cut back on WINE?!

Soooo, I’ve been a little slow with the writing lately, and besides the nuttiness of work and life, and everything else, my real excuse is this: my damn new fitness plan.

Yep.  Fitness has left me a little uninspired.

And let me tell you why.

It has been suggested to me that maybe the reason it’s taking a little longer (this time) to get back into shape, is not simply that I’ve hit an age where I can no longer binge out on junk food after a breakup and then expect a quick run to blast the calories… no.  It’s not even that it’s been far too long since I’ve hit the stage, studio or dance floor and traded myself into an office, desk and computer… no.  It’s not even that I’ve become lazy in my old age (however true that might be.)  It has been suggested to me that the reason the process seems slow(er) is because I should “cut back on wine.”

Hmmm… really?  Well, I took this to heart.  I gave it some consideration.

And ok, so I gave it a shot.  It’s now been a few weeks, I’ve been hitting the gym, and here’s how I feel about that…

What I’ve learned from cutting back on wine…

1.     It’s not really helping my new fitness plan because, instead of sipping on a nice Bordeaux and getting inspired to write or paint, or walk down to the beach, I get bored and snacky.  I’ve been eating too much pasta and cheesecake, and chips, and drinking WAY too much juice.

2.     My blood sugar is out of whack because I’ve been eating too much pasta and cheesecake  and chips and drinking way too much juice.

3.     I have a hard time winding down after a busy day at work, a ton of new vitamins and supplements and a kick-ass gym session… come on, people, a hot bath can only do so much.

4.     I feel much less inspired, because juice or lemon water instead of wine just makes me pee and not chill-out-so-I-can-be-creative… AND therefore…

5.     I feel like I’ve had nothing to write about, paint about, or lament about, and being that this blog is mainly about my experiences with wine… well, it cuts back significantly on those experiences.

6.     Frankly, I’ve hardly tried anything new… no new restaurants, vintages, cheese, etc, because the only thing that pairs with no wine… is boredom and this stupid new fitness plan.

7.     I miss my little jaunts to the wine shop to browse the new labels. The only place I ‘jaunt’ is to Whole Foods for brown things, and well, Whole Foods scares me most of the time. 
  

8.     It’s draining.  I stick to it and I’m good for days and days, and then I sneakily ‘cheat’ and do go out for drinks, and then get over-excited and drink too much, and then get over-emotional because my tolerance is way down and then feel crappy the next day because I can’t drink as much as I’m used to.  So the whole process sort of stinks.

9.     I’ve begun to loathe this new workout plan, despite the fact that I normally love to work out and be generally healthy.

10. Most importantly.  I miss my wine and that makes me grumpy.

I don’t think I need to lay out the “moral of this story” – if you don’t get it by now, we can’t be friends anyways.

I will be adding wine back into my nutrition and fitness regime, and I expect that it will be an excellent decision.

Stay tuned.