I finished reading Half Assed at 5:23 am

My review will be an audio one, because it just has to be.  It will also be at a new blog with a new name.  No more dieting folks, I'm going for a lifestyle change.

And I am going to post progress photos too.

Thanks Jennette!

no up no down

I went to Modells and bought an interesting piece of exercise equipment.

Actually I am getting a lot of exercise just clearing space to set up my mystery machine.

Okay, I need some inspiration time to blog hop.

Til later.

All joking aside...

yesterday's non-event - Rapture 11 - did give me great pause for thought.  At first like most of the world, and all of my friends, I was laughing and making what I thought were most excellent jokes about it.

While I was joking, that 'little light inside my head' went on.  My sometimes way too vivid imagination thinks of it as a cranial office where a tiny version of myself watches the big version of myself.  Occasionally tiny me begins to write things on her blackboard that might motivate me.  It's hard for tiny me, because I always have a lot going on.

Last night tiny me wrote 'Less TV' on her board.  Not just chalk either, she used glow in the dark paint. 

She's right.  I spend a lot of time just watching random 'stuff.'

I got do a lot if I turned the set off most nights.  The DVR could tape my absolute favorites, and I could plan and look forward to a  once a week marathon. 

Yesterday while I was making with the witty remarks, I realized that there are too many unfinished projects in my life.

My lose weight gain health project is sitting in the 'not taken seriously' basket.

And with that I bid you farewell.

I'll be back soon.

Memories of Dieting from Long Ago

In my mid-late teens I lost just over a hundred pounds in a fairly short amount of time.  The memory of sliding into a pair of Gloria Vanderbilt size 12 jeans is a sweet one my dears.  Just a month before I had been a 16, two months before that a 22.  That day I bought an entire new wardrobe.  

My success was due to a combination of double doses of  Dexatrim (the late 70's variety) and days of zero carbs at a time.  Effective but not healthy.

I never achieved my secret goal, which was to lose enough weight to wear shorts and a tank top.  And yes I know women much larger than a 12 wear them, but I wanted to really 'rock' them.  This morning while waiting to order an OJ, a young woman sashayed into the place 'rockin'  a pair of white shorts.  Perfectly toned legs. Shapely ankles. 

At moments from fifty I have let the shorts dream go.  My current dream goal?  To be under 200 pounds even if by just a single pound.