Yep, it's true.I not only eat cold cereal,
which according to some is the consumption of pure evil,
(and as you know "you are what you eat", which means I'm p... e...-shh don't tell anyone!)
BUT, I also have an ADDICTION, to my Garmin Forerunner 305.
It was a gift from Santa, (who looks a lot like my hardworking hubby) this past Christmas! A couple of my friends, also Garmin addicts advised Santa on the purchase! They guaranteed him that it could do everything I wanted and more. And so Santa really scored!
For those of you who know nothing about the Garmin other than the picture of the contraption up above, the Garmin Forerunner 305 watch goes around your wrist and the chest strap goes around uh, your chest, no, actually under it. Good thing, huh? Anyways, together these amazing pieces of technology can-
pin point where you are on this planet,
tell you the date and time,
tell you how fast you are moving,(mph),
show you the route you covered (ooh, someone's watching you!),
tell you the elevation change,
tell you how long you've been moving,
stop recording info if you stop for a stop light or
for your dog to drop a log, or as in my dog's case sometimes a pile of stinky hot fuming mush,
tell you your heart rate,
and if that heart rate is not high enough,
it yells in an army sargeant voice "Get your derriere moving!"
And of course if your heart rate is too high, it sweetly says,
"Slow down honey, you'll never get to your goal weight if you kill yourself first!"
It also tells you how many calories you've burned and
makes sure those calories come off from the right places to never return!
You want one of these techno gadgets right now don't you!
I wish I had one to sell that did the last two things I said, I'd be set for life!
Oh it also delivers the info to your computer and shows it to you in neat graph form! This is especially cool! I've got almost 3 weeks now of recorded workouts on my computer! Three weeks of documented times that I got my heart rate up for an extended period of time! It is proof, I have PROOF! And so if my weight doesn't go down I am going somewhere, I don't know where, but I am going somewhere armed with my definitive data that pleads my case and shows that I'm unlike any other human being on this planet and it is not about calories in and calories out for me! Of course this Garmin gadget only shows the calories out part of the equation but I do have the other side covered with another gadget I might write about some other time.
This blog is about my addiction to the Garmin. My fear that on the day that the battery went dead and it didn't record my work out that perhaps it didn't really count. My manic concern when on the day after the battery died, it recorded my workout on the wrong day!!!!! The high I get when I get home and immediately hook the Garmin up to my computer to download the info to the Garmin Training Center software. And my obsession with seeing the number of calories burned in "black and white"!
And while I'm in the mode of confession, I must say that I had bacon this morning! Yes, one of those meats filled with nitrates, pietraits, carcinogens and suburbagains! It was delicious! One of my friends can't stand "real" bacon because of all the gross grease that gets left in the pan. She goes for the "turkey" type. I look at all that grease in the pan and think, "Yeah, it got left behind so it doesn't go to mine!" For those who are worried about me, for having partaken of this forbidden fatty food, don't worry too much, I'm sure all the bad bacon attributes were negated by the whole wheat english muffin and cage free eggs that I had with it and the V-8 juice that washed it down. I should even get some charity points for making enough for DaLynn and Emily. Gratefully DaLynn partook but Emily said, "I don't want eggs, and I'm not hungry." To which I replied well if you get hungry, this is what you get!" A cook has to have tough love don't they! I get brownie points for offering right? Maybe even extra for the rejection! She did eventually eat it.
Back to the Garmin! I'm hooked! Sign me up for a support group.
