Don't know why I lost more this week than usual... perhaps the probiotics I started taking a week and a half ago, though they seem kind of constipating and today I took them with sugar free Metamucil. My appetite is very little though, eating small meals, few eggs lately, less bacon though I have a lot of bacon in the freezer and need to start eating it. Monday its off to shopping and I have a list. I don't need too much since my fridge and freezer have stuff leftover from last time. Fortunately there's a really inexpensive store where one of my friend's mother's lives in that town about twenty miles away and she has to head over there - we'll be going twice a month... soon I'll be walking once the weather warms up. The arthritis has been bad as it has been damp and cold here in western Massachusetts. I see the rheumatologist on Tuesday. I hope to get over the counter meds through the pharmacy to save money. I want to spend the rest of my life here where I grew up but it is becoming very unlikely especially if I have the money and get published as a writer someday, I will have to move somewhere warmer and drier since the pain from the arthritis has been brutal this winter. I refuse to take those scary IV drugs for it - it isn't that bad yet - I really need a climate change -- the weight is pretty much off so that isn't the issue any longer... :)