Health Trek Day 29

We're back from our Camping trip. We had a wonderful time, the weather was mostly sunny, even though the temperature range was between 29 and 70. We had a great week. Except for a few homemade desserts prepared by our hosts, most of the meals were pretty healthy, but portion control was not in our vocabulary this week, so I may suffer the Evil Scales revenge on Thursday night. Tremble, tremble. I got up at 4:00 a.m. this morning and hit the bike and treadmill so hope I managed some damage control.
My friend and side kick had a knee replacement last week, so I sent her a card every day letting her know our progress and hoping to raise her spirits. What a time we had trying to find mailboxes. Remember when they were at every grocery store and strip mall? They have virtually disappeared in Massachusetts and Connecticut. We only found mailboxes at Post Offices and there are not to many of them on the major highways. So Hubbie and I began listing all the things that our great grandchildren will never see:
Ranger Rick Decoder rings; souvenir cards in shredded wheat boxes; prizes in cereal or cracker jacks; covered bridges; telephone booths; party lines; television tubes; roof antennas; record players; cassettes or 8 track; maybe even cd's; Newspapers?; DVD rental stores??; VCR's;
The list can go on and on and I bet all of you could add a few. I guess with progress comes change, but it sure is hard to give some of these things up when they have been such a part of our lives. I wonder what changes there will be in the next 50 years. If newspapers and books get replaced with electronic devices and readers, what happens if there is a major longterm power outage. When all of us old timers are gone that know how to add, subtract and multiply without the aid of calculators, are people going to be helpless when the cash registers don't tell them how much change to give back? Or is money going to be obsolete too. If all the computers break down then or the satellites disappear, how will they be able to buy food and necessities? My mind is totally boggled thinking about it. I love all the new gadgets, but I hope people will never forget how to live off the land, just in case...
I have vowed today to start the next phase in the baby step changes I have been making on my weight loss journey. I have increased my exercise and closed the kitchen after 7:00 a.m. but I am still yo-yoing and not showing a significant weight loss. I do feel better from the exercise, but need to get serious and eat mindfully. Going on vacation really opens your eyes to how much we center our recreational times around eating. So starting today, I am planning to remove some of the comfort foods from my diet permanently until I get my weight under control. The first to go is salty snacks like potato chips, pretzels and popcorn. I will replace them with fruit and veggie snacks. I have been eating the lower salt chips or baked chips, but still have a problem with swelling in my legs, so the salty stuff is history! Good bye! Good Riddance! Hello healthier me!
Have a wonderful day everyone and remember to
ROCK ON!

Since all the News is prevalent with stories of Flu and Flu shots, I will share my Flu poem with you. This was written one day many years ago when I had one of those flus that brought you to your knees for a couple of weeks. We had no flu shots then...

Ode To The Flu

Oh Flu, you ignominious disparager of health,
What insidious glee do you derive from
bringing humanity to its knees?
Not one of us is safe from you.
What good is wealth?
What care you for our feeble-minded attempts
to stifle your ever prevailing sneeze?
Must you nauseate our bellies and fuzzy up our heads
with a dizzy spell?
Is it necessary to make Pepto-Bismol manufacturers rich
And us poor Peons miserable? Oh Hell!
Be damned you parasite of human frailty!
I refuse to bend to your command
I'll fight you to your death...or mine
You will not get the upper hand!
But alas, I do not think I'll be able
to see you to your tomb today.
But if I ever get out of this bathroom, Beware!
Because I may!!

JPH
November 1975

Plan for today:
Breakfast: Tea and toast
Snack: granola bar
Lunch: Salad
Snack: apple and cheese
Dinner: Stir Fry veggies and pork over brown rice
Snack: jello
Kitchen closed!
Exercise: Worked out at the gym for 50 minutes, Mr. G's list, evening Yoga