Started out the new year fairly well.  We went out to breakfast this morning, something we very seldom do.  It was really good.  A local restaurant near the cabin that bakes their own bread and cures their own ham … yum.  I had two eggs over medium, about half a cup of home fries, a couple of bites of ham and half an English muffin with just a smear of strawberry jelly.  Delicious.  The rest of the day was vegetables and protein and two small dark chocolate dove pieces.  We have company tomorrow and then head back to Canada on Sunday.

I’m debating whether I want to redo Phase I on south beach next week.  It feels like it should be a nice start to my new 12 weeks.

I also started re-organizing things for the new year.  Got my email folders for 2009 moved to storage and set up new ones for 2010.  I also downloaded Microsoft OneNote and plan to enter all my credit card and bank information into it.  Plus I want to re-arrange my desk and my office.

I started knitting a new sweater for myself today and am knitting it in bust size of 38.  It’s a seamless knit that I can try on as I knit and it’s a little tight, particularly around the top of the hips, but I am convinced I am going to lose this weight, so I should be knitting for my new size, not my current size.  I’m going to be more worried that it will be too big than that it will be too small for me when all is said and done.

And I’m thinking about maybe starting running in the spring (there’s absolutely no way I’d run outside in the winter in Calgary.  The sidewalks and the streets are treacherous where I live … people fall just trying to walk to the mailboxes around the corner because it’s so icy and the neighborhood boys are able to play hockey and ice skate  out on the street.)  All of my daughters and daughter-in-laws (except the two who are pregnant) are going to do a triathlon this summer, along with three of my sisters and two of my granddaughters.  Some of them are going to be a team (one swims, one runs, and one bikes for one team or some combination) and I’d like to be able to do it.  I can’t do the swimming, but I was thinking maybe I could run.  It’s only three miles (I say that like I run three miles every day when I’ve never run in my entire life, not even when I weighed 128 pounds.)  Anyway, it’s something for me to think about.  Meanwhile I’ll keep doing the south beach diet turbocharge.