Detox Day 20 (JD:6) High Heels & Single Tasking

Bridget Jones’s Update of Day 20: BMI: 24.9 (+0.2) back up, let’s see how tomorrow is… Activity Level: Yoga Day 2. Committed to it, buying 10 passes. Goodness I love yoga, on tomorrow to-do buying a yoga mat.  Meditation: 6 minutes in Yoga looking for my 3rd eye. Heaven.  Brief Observations: No chills, so maybe that’s, as they say here in Boston, OH-VAH! Had to throw out the F.A. jeans. Yes, THE F.A. jeans. I’d burn them only me, matches and lighter fluid might not be a bright move. Day 20 of Clean Detox, this has been an incredible experience.  Head clear, sleeping like a baby, body feels great, skin clear. Yes, pretty awesome.

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Valentines Day.

With kids.

Not the most Romantic of scenarios, but my husband and I don’t put a lot of stock in Valentine’s Day.

I credit my husband with this, as he put it so eloquently, “Why do only ONE DAY to be romantic? I’d like to treat you special all year.”

So that being said, we try to make Valentine’s Day a family affair, and make it a day for each one of us to be extra-special to each other. We go to a family lunch, kids get valentine’s presents. I’m able to sneak out for an hour and half of yoga.

I also decided to wear heels.

All day.

By choice.

Having a husband that is 6’5″ , heels really work (Being 5’8″ I’m tall, but not that tall!) but I hardly ever wear them. I’m the chica that wears flats, or running shoes streaking after my kids who are usually running. Usually really fast.

So as an experiment, I decided to wear a pair of fabulous heels all day. Partly because it’s FAB to “dress up” for the day, partly the shoes were delish and partly because I wanted to see if I could do pair of heels all day long. Again, I’m the chica that wear basically sneakers. I’m no Victoria Beckham.

Now THAT lady can wear heels, even picking up one of her kids from school.

Seriously, I have proof:

So in my own experience of the all-day heel wearing, I found you can’t be the do-all, be-all Lady and Mommy on the go. Wearing heels all day, forces you to be deliberate.

One thing at a time.

Much to my surprise, my day in heels was an exercise in “Single-tasking.”

Today’s world is so fast, so connected, so multi-tasking that sometimes can be overwhelming.

One cannot be multi-tasking, can-do-it-all Lady or Mom in heels. It’s really let  all about being focused on the task at hand and planning ahead.

Some things I found out quite quickly:

One cannot run in heels.

One cannot keep running up and down stairs in heels for all the stray items you forget.

One cannot really pick up or clean the house in heels, no matter what those Men’s Magazines portray.

One cannot be hurried along or rushed in heels.

One cannot do a lot of errands in heels.

Now there is an exception. There always is.If you’ve been born in a culture that sticks you in 4″ heels upon puberty you can totally rock and do ANYTHING is heels. Anecdotal story: my sister had a Puerto Rican friend who, literally, always wore 4″ heels. Had since she was 13, as did all her sisters and friends. She told me she felt weird in flats or running shoes. I start to think Chinese foot binding,  by wearing them so young and consistently, your foot morphs to fit the heels, with tendons, and muscles all adjusting.As a result, those Puerto Rican ladies could probably run a freakin’ marathon in heels, let alone run around town doing errands.

So back to my single tasking. I also found that the heels gave me a wee-super power. My husband was more than happy to help with the “Darlin’, I can’t get to that/carry that… I’m in heels.” It became a little bit of a joke. But I think he was loving having me be almost to his nose, as the heels I choose had a half inch platform (see picture above.) All told, my total height was probably close to 6 feet. He primarily did the heavy lifting, and chasing after the kids, while I sashayed around the house with deliberate single-tasking purpose all day long. I bet I could have parlayed this into more but I didn’t, having showed unusual self-restraint with my new wee-super power.

Plus, now the cat’s outta the bag- he’s probably reading this. It’s OK, I’ll take one for the team on this… use my sacrifice wisely ladies.

Yes, use it wisely.

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