Chronicles of a Novice

Yup, that's right. I did not conquer this goal. Admittedly, I did really really well with my "taking the stairs" goal in the beginning of the week and in fact, I was the ultimate stair master the last week of December but I seemed to lose steam by about Thursday of last week.

Here's the breakdown:

Monday - Wednesday: Took the stairs like a champ. I even went out of my way to find ways to take MORE stairs. I wore my cute ballet flats and showed those stairs who was boss (I'm pretty sure the stairs were intimidated by my asthmatic wheezing and slow trod after floor 5 - FYI)

The downfall began on Wednesday afternoon when I had a total, mid-afternoon brain fart and a hankering for a delicious hostess cupcake. That's right. I admit it. Those little chocolaty morsels of heaven were my stair step downfall. As my previous post described, I happily got on and off the elevator BOTH times with no thought to the fact that I wasn't taking the stairs on my fatty escapade.

On Thursday, I decided to wear my SUPER cute blue Madden Girl pumps which got tons of compliments but were not conducive to walking the stairs. In fact, let's be honest, they were not really conducive to doing much at all except sitting and looking pretty (which I pulled off marvelously and without flaw of course!). So, on this day, I made the conscious decision to not take the stairs.

Of course, on Friday, I decided to wear my OTHER new shoes hilariously dubbed "Lesbian Pirate Boots" (so named by my fashionable male coworker). I coupled this look with a dress, brown tights and a sweater over the dress. Super cute outfit but I was able to talk myself out of walking the stairs in the dress. Silly, yes but I'm great at talking myself into bad things and out of good things. Its a skill. People are jealous of this ability.

Sadly, this means that I only made it half the week and I've been kicking myself for my lack of self discipline. The great news is that I have two new fabulous pairs of shoes which puts an extra kick in my step. I'm going to continue to push myself to take the stairs at most opportunities I have but sometimes, the regimen must suffer and bow to the likes of fashion. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.

Week 1 Novice Attempt: Stair Master
Results: Yup...still a Novice