January 2 2010 Diet Blog

Day 2 of the strict diet regimen. It was a busy day so I didn't really have time to think about it that much. The highlights included cleaning the basement, grocery shopping and rescuing my mother-in-law when her car broke down at the bank.
Fun things included playful banter on Face book, finding an old letter from my mother after she had read my very first novel and thinking how wonderful that made me feel at the time and making snow angels out on the lawn...that's a long story. I'll tell it another day.
I UN-officially weighed in today just to assess the holiday damage. Are you sitting? I didn't believe it myself but I checked three separate times. According to my scale I only gained half a pound. Yup...its true.
How could that be? I ate-drank and was merry. Don't get me wrong; I'm thrilled! Just astonished is all. The only thing I can attribute it to is the strictness for that time before the holidays came. 20 solid days- not one morsel was bad for me during that time! I'm still astounded! The official weigh in is on the 5th as always, so let's not get too excited....oh Okay! Get excited! ;-) Of course I will keep you as updated as possible. My new goal is February 14. Valentine's Day.
I'm friends on face book with my best BFF's brother's significant other now. She contacted me for the photos that I took of them at the New Years party. They are back in England now and she wanted to see them. Of course I accepted her friend request and shared them right to her page. What a lovely person she is. I liked her so much. That entire family has literally adopted me. I'm lucky and grateful.
My body conditioning class ended as you know. I'm kind of sad about it. Although it was a lot of work, the exercise was wonderful for me. I'm worried about losing momentum. I have a Wii Fit. I'm going to try and do that. It will depend on this semester's classes though. I need to take at least one, preferably two. Sadly, County employees have to register last and so the classes that I need never seem to be open. It's so hard. I will just keep chipping away at it though...just like my weight. This is my year I think! Yours too.
I'll sign off here because I'm in desperate need of a shower after the events of the day. About the snow angels...let me just say that I'm still part child I guess. It was fun! So...sue me! ;-) They say "how old would you think you were if you didn't know your own age?" I actually thought about that lately because of all the holiday spirit, fun, laughter and banter going on around me. I've been told that I've aged like fine wine...refined and beautiful as my hand was gently kissed and huge black brown eyes twinkled at me in a teasing manner; I was called a hot tomale because my 'walk is sexy' as I walked away from the crowd, and I was called a 'smart ass' in a playful banter on face book private conversation after the culprit had me so red I thought my cheeks were going to pop off. (Thank heaven I couldn't be seen! That being said, I think that I'm around 22. Old enough to be a little more responsible than a younger person, but still young enough to know that being silly from time to time is okay.
I wonder how much I would think I weigh if I had no way of knowing, using that same formula. Hmmm...I'm going to have to seriously think that one through. I'll sign off on that note as I said reminding us all that we look as good as we can for today. Tomorrow we will look that much better. Do not let your perception of your body stand in the way of you having a good time. Stay positive...I'm right here with you! Lets paddle this boat to shore together! We can do this! So lets.... Have an excellent night. See you next blog! ;-)