Mid-January!

Good Grief!  Tomorrow is January 13th already.  Time does fly.

It's been an odd couple of days.  We actually had some snow yesterday morning (not in the forecast) and today I was driving home with blue skies and sunshine to accompany me as the weatherman on the radio said we were going to have a mostly cloudy day.  Do they ever check outside their windows?

A friend and I "share" a personal trainer at the gym for a session once a week.  We both got the "eating better" lecture Thursday and I can't say it wasn't deserved.  Add that to having a blood draw for a doctor's appointment coming up Tuesday and I will probably be in very deep doodoo.  I had managed to get my cholesterol down some last time, but minor surgery on a toe stopping my momentum in exercising and the holiday season (burp!) I'm sure have not been helpful in keeping it down.  In fact, I fear that it will be up again...  So once again I'll be telling the doctor that I really can get back on  track, get it down again, and keep it down.

The kicker?  Eating is so much fun! 

My husband watches Dr. Oz nearly every day and one of his "top 13" ideas for losing weight included a computer/phone app called "My Fitness Pal."  The trainer at the gym said, "good idea!" so it's on my phone now--which automatically syncs with the computer, of course.  (Feeling my age--I remember when the word was "sink" and it had nothing to do with electronics!)  At any rate, while the app is good for tracking both food and activity it has been very disheartening to find out just how caloric so many of our foods are.  BUMMER.

If I don't exercise,  it hardly takes anything at all to hit my target calorie count for the day.  BUMMER.

On the plus side, while cycling at the gym the other day I had a chance to start on Anne Lamott's book "Help, Thanks, Wow--the Three Essential Prayers."  It's going to be a good read and already has me curious about a prayer by Thomas Merton that she begins to quote and then says, "you can look it up for yourself."  So I will, sometime soon.  In the meantime,

life goes on.