Local Ice Skating

[bjarvis]

In the past, I had talked about finding a place where I could go skating during lunch. While I had the public skating schedule for the Frederick, MD, arena, I hadn't checked out the facility yet. Work was light earlier today so it seemed an opportune time for a road trip.

It's a fairly nice and modern facility, although if I had gone skating today, I would have been the only person on the ice.

Anyone else interested in joining me for ice skating in Frederick, MD, periodically, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM? We'd have the place to ourselves!

I'm looking forward to the extra exercise. There's no doubt my weight is gradually edging upwards --pigging out on weapons-grade girl scout thin mints obviously hasn't helped-- but it's largely from my lack of strenuous physical activity. I've been hovering (hoovering?) around 185 lbs for a while: it's time to downsize to about 170.

The rink, however, is surrounded by Roy Rogers, Dairy Queen, Five Guys burgers, Cold Stone Creamery and a grocery store. They aren't making this easy.

BTW, on a lark, I drove back to the office along 355 southbound. I was pleasantly surprised how nice areas of north Frederick and historic Frederick can be. Who knew? :-)

Comments

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

The Cold Stone Creamery would defeat the effort/purpose.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yup, no doubt, but it taunts me so!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

There's no doubt my weight is gradually edging upwards

and you turned 40 - what, 13 months ago? Can I say "I told you so" yet?

pigging out on weapons-grade girl scout thin mints obviously hasn't helped

thank you for that delightful image.

I've been hovering (hoovering?) around 185 lbs for a while: it's time to downsize to about 170.



I think "hoovering" is exactly the right word.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure the weight gain was due to metabolic change so much as change in habits: I'm on the mic more & dancing less so my burning of calories is dramatically lower than it was six months ago. The recent chocolate & ice cream binging probably didn't help either.

If it's problematic discarding the weight & keeping it off, that would certainly be a sign the metabolism has changed for the worse.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

well, you've also just acquired a(nother) husband, and that kind of domestic change frequently results in weight change, just from what's now going on at home. does cuyahogarvr do much of the cooking chez you?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

cuyahogarvr does the bulk of the cooking currently and he does it very well. I've been watching portion sizes and we've been eating more vegetables and less starch so I think we're actually eating much healthier than we have in a while.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Up for a game of "Bump the Bellies?"

(chortle)