for Valentine’s Day.  Mac and I made chocolates and sent them last week to all the grandkids.  So there’s no candy left in the house and nobody’s going out to get more. 

That’s not to say there wasn’t a time in the not too distant past when I would have used the day as an excuse to cram as many treats into my mouth as I could.  Especially the day after Valentine’s when everything is on sale.  (Because everybody knows if you buy it at half-price, then it has half the calories!)

We’ll celebrate with a special dinner.  No presents, although once in a while Mac buys me flowers, but that usually only happens when he happens to be at the grocery store on the day and there is a big display of flowers right in front of him.  Which is okay because he knows that I’m not really a flowers kind of woman … they are okay once in a while but there’s a lot of other things I’d rather have.  Like some accessories for my IPad.  Just sayin’.

I committed a couple of weeks ago to getting the exercise done every day.  I started with a simple plan … so many every hour … and it’s evolved into me getting back onto the Nordic trak (ski machine) and lifting weights every day.  Nice. I’m back to looking forward to doing it, rather than having to force myself into the basement.

Does anybody (who counts calories) count their exercise calories?  I’ve always felt that unless I was really killing it, then I most likely wasn’t working hard enough to make that much of a difference.

I do feel the difference in my body when I’m exercising.  Another of those things that makes me wonder why I ever quit exercising when it feels so good.

Eating has also been excellent.  One of those things where the more I do it the easier it is to do.  I have had a couple of pieces of fruit in the last week … absolutely delicious oranges twice and a banana once.  My weight is still creeping downward, so I know I’m not overdoing it.

I have realized that my mindset at the moment is if I can’t have all I want of something (cupcakes!), then I don’t want any.  This is working as long as I don’t have that first bite and I believe this is where I need to be right now.  Maybe after I’ve lost the weight, I can think about having just one bite, but I know I’m not ready to do it now.

And isn’t that what this is all about … knowing what is right for you??