Snow, Movies, and a Warm Bath

I believe over the past week Central PA has accumulated just under 30 inches of snow. I don't remember this much snow since college (at least 5 years ago). I welcome it. I welcome being forced to stay inside and be a couch potato. Life hasn't privileged me with such indulgences in quite some time. Sure, I brought the inevitable bag full of work to do home with me. I didn't bother with it at all except to get The Lovely Bones out to read whilst I bathroomed.

I began my day with 3 episodes of House Hunters International and the latest episodes of The Office and Accidentally on Purpose. I rounded the morning off with The Biggest Loser: Where are they Now? (DVR-ed from October/November)

The Biggest Loser got me thinking, as it always does, how I need to do something. My weight has weighed me down (pun intended) for entirely too long. Food is such a comfort to me. It makes me happy when nothing else will. It stabilizes my mood. It actually changes my affect. But my love has limits, as I certainly can equally hate the stuff- and sometimes myself, for giving in to the carby sugary fatty greatness way too often. Like so many other things in life, there needs to be a balance established. The reason I gained all 30 pounds I lost just over two years ago? I had deprived myself of the carby sugary fatty greatness for 3 months, so when "The Biggest Loser" challenge at work ended and the accountability, I was back to the same terrible eating habits. I wonder what it will take to get back on the boat?

So, I've got 5 pages of Eat, Pray, Love left and it's been one of my absolute favorite reads. I must agree with some of her biggest critics with the fact that she's a very wealthy woman who has the luxury to travel the world to work out her problems. However, I think you forget where she is when she gets into the deep revelations she has about life, love, spirituality, and her inner thought processes. I think of it as a way to vicariously travel the world. Her openness to diverse cultures and everyone she comes in contact with is admirable and worthy of copy cating. I think my biggest disappointment is that she can't keep the promise she made to herself at the beginning of her journey. But, alas, she is only human! I have kind of built her up as a god of sorts- I have imposed my ridiculously high self-expectations on her....

Enough for now. Sleep just hit me with a ton of bricks. :-)