Cereal killer

I have officially come up with my February lifestyle change challenge. I had tentatively planned to focus on strengthening my core three times a week, but this past week have brought to a head a much bigger problem of mine.

"Hello. My name is Spie and I am addicted to dry cereal. "

I snack on cereal morning, noon, and night. I guess that I am fortunate that I have somewhat healthy cereals in the house. I currently have been eating boxes of Frosted Mini Wheats like they are going out of style. The Golden Grahams were golden, golden, gone. I have banned Cinnamon Toast Crunch and this past month I realized that I cannot buy granola. (A half cup of granola packs as much calories as one whole cup of mini wheats -- who can eat just 1/2 cup of cereal? Certainly not me.)

So, in the month of February, be it resolved that I, Spie, will NOT snack on dry cereal during the day...light hours.... OH, all right. I, Spie, will not snack on dry cereal. Period.

In other news, I skipped my swim this morning. I participated in an indoor triathlon on Sunday and have been feeling tight and tired ever since. I decided that I have not been doing a good job listening to my body and so I slept in and tried some yoga this morning to loosen up some of the muscles. I felt there is no sense in pushing myself to the point of injury and fatigue during the month of January when my first event is several months away.

However, doing yoga made me realize that I am inflexible.

Right now, Mr. Spie is screaming out somewhere "I could have told you that".

I had difficulty sitting on the floor with my feet out in front of me. As I watched the lady in the On-Demand exercise video easily contort her body in half from a torturous pose called Plow Pose, I recognized that I need to work on my flexibility or as the intensity of my training increases the likelyhood of injury will increase as well. Hopefully, I will get a yoga dvd, mat, and some blocks (yes, I am that inflexible) for Valentines Day as I sent a blantent hint to Mr. Spie in the form of an internet link.

Perhaps the month of February will have to have two challenges.

Good thing that the month is only 28 days long.