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Thank you to all my FS Friends for your encouragement. When I got home, I didn't have any yogurt in the house, but I did have this bottle of probiotics that I had gotten from Walmart that is supposed to have a kazillion active cultures in it, so I started taking it. DW is supposed to pick me up some yogurt today on her way back from the doctor. I can tell I'm getting better; I've actually slept through the night these last 2 nights for the first time in 3 weeks. I love store-bought yogurt - especially the fruity foo-foo ones. I tried the plain Greek yogurt - YUK! I'm not sure I could do the homemade yogurt thing. Don't let the "DairyKing" moniker fool you: the only dairy products I'm a big fan of is ice cream and cheese, so store-bought yogurt is probably my best option, along with the probiotics.
Yesterday, it was -8F when I came to work, and this morning it was +8F. What a difference 16 degrees makes - a regular heat wave! Supposed to get up into the 30's by this weekend. Even the well traveled roads around here are still snow-packed and icy. They're not even bothering to put anything on them. It's going to be a slushy mess when this stuff starts to melt, but it sure beats busted water pipes.
Since my health is beginning to take an upturn, and my strength and endurance is rising, I'm also getting this yearning to exercise more discipline in my eating habits, and starting to think about getting back into an exercise routine. When I felt so bad and useless, it was so easy to have a little chocolate here, a little egg nog there, tortilla chips and cheese, and, well, you all know too well where that road leads. Some of us have been on this cycle for so long, our biggest obstacle is the "what's the use" syndrome. Once you determine that the past is past, and there's nothing you can do about that, but you can do something about your future, then the hard part is over. It's determining to take that first step that's always the hardest for me. Sometimes I just have to get to the point of desperation before I declare, "Enought is enough," and get back on track. Well, enough is enough, this is the year that I'm going to make it happen. There are too many motorcyle rides that I haven't taken yet, and too many things to do that are just too damn difficult to do if you're pulling an oxygen bottle behind you (no, I'm not on oxygen, and don't want to be). Anyway, that's my rhetorical contribution for the day. Toodles!
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