Snakes and other reasons to STAY FAT!

I am kidding... no one wants to BE FAT or STAY FAT unless they have serious issues. I have serious issues, but none quite THAT bad!
So... it has been a while since I have written... I hit the wall everyone kept telling me about. I have lost a little over 20 pounds (23 actually). I have NOT GAINED, but I have not lost anymore in the past month!
I did not stop working out all together, but I fell off the fast track, that's for certain. Let me just share my "serious issue" I faced recently..
A few weeks ago, my great friend, whom I love with all of my heart, Ginger Todd Gorman and I decided to use those blasted bicycles that Ben and I purchased a few years ago. We decided that it is a shame to let two awesome Treks like that sit in the garage. So Ginger and I dusted off the seats, geared up and headed out for a beautiful bike ride through my neighborhood, Ashbrooke. Now... there is a wooded area with a trail in the back portion of my neighborhood and since these Treks are mountain bikes, I had a FANTASTIC idea... LET'S RIDE OFF ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ginger says, "Brandi, I don't think that is a good idea.... we might see a snake!"
I said, "Oh... give it a rest Ginger... we are NOT going to see a snake, plus we will have to bike harder and burn more calories!"
So... I turned off the paved road and headed onto the trail! I felt so good about myself. I just knew I was going to feel all "OFF ROAD FITNESS WOMAN"!!! As soon as I got on the trail, I ran over several ruts and a very, very large stick. Then I saw that there is a large tree down over the path and I could not go any further. Ginger was still near the road, so I turned around and told her it wasn't a good idea after all. Just as I did that, I discovered that the VERY large stick that I ran over was a WATER MOCCASIN! The damn thing was HISSING AT ME! I mean... really? Are you kidding me??? IT WAS A FREAKIN SNAKE! I was wearing my heart rate monitor and I really did look down at it to see that my heart rate increased from 135 to 187! Yeah... scare the hell out of me and I burn calories... whoo hoo! HERE WE GO DIET!
So now I am in the woods, I can't get past the tree, I yelled some sort of profanity that I am certain scared the small children in the neighborhood park and Ginger is screaming at me asking what I am going to do! Let me pause here and say this.... Ginger Gorman is one of the SMARTEST friends I have ever had in my entire life. I am serious... she really is... We go WAY BACK!!!! She is full of book smarts and common sense that most people would kill for... but on this afternoon, Ginger has a solution to our problem and I began questioning her for the first time in our 11 year freindship....
She says, "Brandi... I have an idea... just stay there and I will go to your house and get a hoe and we will kill it!" Ha ha ha ha ha ha.... DO I LOOK LIKE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO OWNS A HOE? I mean... what would I do with farm equipment? I don't plant things. Just ask my husband about the flowers in pots outside. They look like plants from a horror film. I am waiting for the homeowners' association to leave some rude note on our door.... Anyway...
I decided to pick the bike up, run with it through the woods, around the fallen tree and I came out on the other side of the neighborhood! All I could think of was that there were going to be more snakes. Then I got back on the sucker and peddled as fast as I could until I came out at Lake Caroline. When I finally made it back to Ginger, I had burned 400 calories! Now I don't know if this was God teaching me a lesson for slacking or what, but the calories were burned that day...

Since this time... I have seen TWO OTHER large snakes. My neighbor killed one in his yard two doors down (he lives on the lake). On Friday, I was leaving from work and a smaller snake wiggled its behind out of my garage! NOW I AM SCARED!

Ginger also killed a snake in HER CLOSET! I understand that she beat the damn thing with a high heel shoe. I suppose GINGER DOESN'T OWN A HOE EITHER!!!!!!!!!!

God help me...

I am back on track though and I hope the blog will be updated more often than it has been! I am doing just fine with the dieting part, but I need to get back on my exercise program full force! I still hold to it that Dr. Pepper is legalized crack. Whenever we go out, I make myself decide between alcohol and Dr. Pepper and most of the time... Dr. Pepper wins! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME....? I can see the headline now... "Overweight Catholic girl turns down red wine for Dr. Pepper".

I hope everyone is doing well and still on track with their weightloss journey. Please DON'T GIVE UP ON ME! I am still down TWO SIZES! I can see my feet again and I feel a thousand times better!