The EAT-MORE Experiment

Now that I've sucked you in with an interesting title you have to wait till the bottom to read about it.

Assuming you haven't skipped straight to the bottom by now, here's how its been going lately.

I have been regularly doing about 1500 stairs once a week. Its a lot of up and a lot of down. Last week it was raining (no wimpy golfers were out on the course next to the stairs I use) and this week it was hot and humid. At one point I considered removing my shirt and just stepping in my bra top because, did I mention, it was 1) hot out and 2) it was 6 am and there was no one around? Did I mention it was hot already? Eventually, even though it was 1) hot and 2) no one was around, I did NOT take my top off. Want to know why? Because yesterday my son told me I had to dress for the body I have not the one I want! So, even though it was 1) hot and 2) there was no one around, I kept my shirt on. BTW - eventually I encountered one chipmunk, two birds, and three people so I guess I was wrong about 2) no one was around. By the amount of sweat I wrang out of my shirt, I was correct about 1) it was hot!

     We have had three Kilimanjaro group work outs, two of which I've been to. Basically we go up/down a hill with or without stairs and then we do some squatting, lunging, pushing up or other form of body work and then we go up/down the hill again. The first week it was raining and we were in the forest in the river valley. Yay, no bugs. This week it was super hot (35ºC) and, yay, no bugs.

     I did a two hour walk on the weekend at my neighborhood park, sadly, it was 1) hot and 2) there were bugs! I got mosquito bites which didn't impress me! Scratch, scratch, scratch.

     Onto the EAT-MORE experiment. I capitalized that word because 1) its a registered trademark and 2) it would be more visible if you skipped all the stuff above and jumped straight to the EAT-MORE experiment! I have heard from people who know people who climbed Kilimanjaro that EAT-MORE is the perfect chocolate bar to carry up the mountain because it doesn't melt in the heat and you can eat it when its frozen. So, on the aforementioned 35ºC day I put an EAT-MORE in my aluminum motorbike luggage, up against the side the sun was shining on, and left it there for the two hours we were doing our workout. When we were done I opened it up, and....the hype was correct. It was soft and a bit mushy but easily stuck together and did not bleed chocolate on anything. It was yummy too!

     I emailed the HERSHEY company to see if my fabulous ravings about their chocolate bar would in some way encourage them to pony up with a dozen or two for my trip. Sadly, they sent me a nice, but sans chocolate bar, letter thanking me for my comments. Sigh.. there goes my hope of free chocolate.

When winter comes (sooner than I want) I will try freezing it and seeing if it breaks any teeth. So, stay tuned (but don't hold your breath) for EAT-MORE experiment part 2.