Well, here I am in the Holiday Season – a time when I usually get together with my daughter and her friends to bake cookies and make caramels and fudge. And here I also am – at a weight reduction plateau. I lost 40 pounds a few months ago and have been stuck at that weight for so long that I’ve forgotten my original elation at my success. I have had some success. I’ve succeeded in staying stable during many opportunities for heavy snacking and sumptuous meals (think travelling in Italy with friends and a week of Thanksgiving hoopla with our daughters and you get the idea about pasta a pumpkin pie).

I’ve been happy with my food plan and exercise. This program is how I melted 40 pounds of fat in the first place – why have I not continued on that successful path? So today, I was taking my usual morning walk and a little voice in my head told me to walk by the circuit exercise place I used to frequent. As serendipity would have it, the Saturday manager was putting out their sign and we started chatting. She invited me in to give me a free pass for the month. FREE. That’s a price I like, especially for exercise. Generally I think that housework and gardening should be exercise enough and that no sane person should need to go anywhere and pay money to get more exercise.

But maybe that is exactly what I need to shed those stubborn 20 pounds. I don’t know if it will do the trick, but I’m going to find out.
 
© 2008, Jacqueline Hale