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Learning to relax and a trip to Costco

Posted Aug 04 2008 7:14pm
I like Costco on a Wednesday morning. It’s not crowded and I can stop and read the labels on everything without some pushy person trying to mow me over with their overfilled shopping cart. The only drawback is when I get home and Ken isn’t there to say “it’s ok honey, I’ll bring in the groceries…you chill” But I like to make a game of it now after reading how Nan over atRunning from the Pudgeturned chores like carrying a lot of stuff from one place to another into a Biggest Loser type challenge for herself by pretending she was racing against the clock. So thats what I did today.



  • Step 1. Arrive home
  • Step 2. Open the door and get thoroughly greeted by Sadie and Max
  • Step 3. Open trunk
  • Step 4. Tell Sadie and Max to get OUT of the trunk
  • Step 5. Start grabbing as much as you can carry and rush to the kitchen with it while stepping around the obstacle course…that would be Sadie and Max who have spotted their bag of treats and have started doing back flips in front of me in hopes of sampling said treats.
  • Step 6. Repeat until trunk/boot is empty.


There, wasn’t that easy? The groceries are all in the house now and you’ve completed a little workout. Now its time to relax.





They say that getting a good night’s sleep is crucial for weight loss and sometimes my mind is racing and I have a hard time falling asleep. I heard something the other day on the radio that really helped me sleep last night. It said that if you can slow your breathing to 10 breaths per minute for 10 minutes it will make you relaxed and help you sleep. You simply need to inhale for 3 seconds and exhale for 3 seconds for 10 minutes. I tried this last night before bed, I haven’t slept so soundly in ages.

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