Yes, I am doing great despite lack of encouragement from my scale, my tape measure, my pants. I am taking the increase in my activity ...I am not calling it exercise because I do not consider it exercise...exercise hurts

...slow. I have made the mistake in the past of launching myself from the couch to a marathon only to wake up in agony that took days to go away and by that time my momentum was lost and my desire to move had returned to hiding deep in its closet.