Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Does it count?

Today, I had an email that there would be free fast food in my building for the people who work there.
Yay!

The delivery time was on the bare minimum for when I might be able to grab some and then go pick up children from preschool.
Also, I am helping to supervise teacher education students who are learning about teaching literacy by actually tutoring at-risk readers. So I was not on campus normally.

The plan was that I could finish with the tutoring (which for an hour I walked between three different hallways modeling teaching techniques and checking in with the students and their students...that should count as exercise). Then I could run over, park, have just enough time to walk over to pick up a lunch, and then walk back and go pick up my own children. I could eat in the car so as not to laud it over my children that I had a special meal.

That was the plan at least....
I parked.
I walked (5-10 minutes over to the building).
I got there...no food. I had a potty break, got some water... still no food, just lots of people milling around waiting for food.
So....I walked back to my car because I didn't dare to wait any longer and risk being late for pick-up at preschool.

So that should count as extra exercise right? I not only walked but I ended up without the fattening fast food.

1 comment:

Ann in NJ said...

Absolutely it counts! You can count it as all the calories you didn't eat and the exercise you did get.

The fact that you didn't have to exercise any self-control is beside the point. You can still fell virtuous.