skinny love.

so today is february 1st. which means we made it. a whole month of the 'the skinny board'. the skinny board is a whiteboard in my office that has all of our skinny activities (that is, the activities we are to do each day in order to be healthier...and skinny) that is hung quite prominently for all to mock. the system is quite simple - monday yoga, tuesday hot yoga, wednesday yoga, thursday gym (oh, how i loathe the gym). a smiley face indicates we completed our task that day, a half smiley means we did a half-assed job at it and a frownie...well a frownie means we just couldn't do it that day. an excuse in a speech bubble usually accompanies a frownie, so that people don't judge us and our laziness. monday to friday also requires drinking 8 glasses of (mofo) water. because it's good for you. or so i'm told.

here's what i've learned so far along this skinny journey:

• it is good to take on a ridiculous skinny board with a friend. even if you begin to slightly hate that friend for not just letting you go home and abandoning the skinny board when you've had a long day. or you're tired. or you have a headache. or your meeting is running late. or you'll miss the bus. or you forgot your shoes. or you thought they had plans and you weren't going to the gym tonight...
• i need to come up with better excuses.
• good tv is key to not hating the gym. you MUST pick a channel that has a solid line-up, don't get caught off guard by "style by jury" when the good show you had on ends and you can't get off your machine to change the channel. style by jury will deffo make your last 8 minutes feel like another half an hour. true story.
• 8 glasses of water is a LOT. and for the first week of drinking said water, you can expect to feel it splash around your stomach with every step you take.
• water intake does not equal water output. 8 glasses of water = at least 20 bathroom trips. 
• you cannot expect to see an immediate change in your appearance. or even one after four weeks of the skinny board. (wtf?! give me something!)
• your body does not adjust to this much activity, even after four weeks. there will still be days when you feel like you're waddling with your legs wide open, even when they are closed. (f to the y to the i, weirdest.feeling.ever)
• people don't like the name 'the skinny board', in fact, they rather hate it (ps, i'm open to new suggestions) 

so, see you later, january. and welcome the next four weeks of the skinny board in february. ps, i'm hoping for a lot of smiley faces.