7 hours of cardio in 3 days. 5 miles of walks on the other 4 days.
So as I say, it takes a lot of fuel to run that motor.
I am up and down all day doing things in the house. Every time I pass through the kitchen I tend to grab a nibble. Nice excuse to keep a lot of food in the house at any given time. I'm baking cookies and cupcakes all the time on off days. I have kept brownies on hand simply because I can cook them in little cupcake papers and bring them to the park to snack on mid-workout.
While baking is on the agenda for today, there's a problem with all of that. You see I share this house with a little furry shadow. Rack, the McNab SuperDog has learned my pattern.
If I stand up, he is up. Off to the back door to be let out. Many, many times a day. Sometimes it does not take standing up, merely shifting in the chair might do it.
If I do go to deal with the wash or get something to drink, he is on my heels. He is smart about it. His hearing is not the best, after all, he is a 14 year old dog. But if he senses that I am about to open a bag of chips or grab a "little something" I will hear paws on the tiles approaching.
There are two ways I have to grab a few chips though. Chips aren't the best for man or beast, but either way, if he is outside sniffing a hibiscus flower, I can grab some on my own. Also I am doing laundry frequently so I can even go into the laundry with the bag and dine at my own leisure.
All that baking takes time as well. I'm in the kitchen for hours since I am a rare person - I have churned butter and I know how to use that food processor for nefarious purposes like making bread. After a while, Rack will sit focused on me in the dining room, staring in on my progress and hoping for a morsel.
Since he isn't a "Counter Surfer", I am lucky. I broke that behavior very quickly after he moved in with us by putting metal bowls on the counters balanced precariously on the edge. Metal bowl hitting the floor makes a rather loud noise falling from 3 feet. I think Rack broke the sound barrier running from the resulting clatter.
Of course if we had a Labrador Retriever we would have problems keeping food on the counter. But as they say about this breed - if you can't train a McNab, you can't train a dog. Labs are a very different sort of dog anyway. Very sweet but always hungry.
In Rack's case, since he frequently takes as much as an hour to eat a bowl of food in the morning, it is easy to say food is not his highest priority. Lunch time is a different matter and that hour can get cut back to about 3 minutes.
But having a shadow is a reason to have a dog. Rack is my shadow, I will just have to keep sneaking snacks next to the dryer. It's better for me anyway, I shouldn't be eating all the snack food. Too much fat, too many carbs, it will not help me hit my macro nutrients.
Ok, shadow is fair, but maybe he's my conscience. Just stop begging for potato chips, they're not for dogs!
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