Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month
Chili smells have begun to fall down the stairs and enter my study. Smells pretty good, especially after a workout on the treadmill. I’ve up the difficulty by two incline levels over the last week or so and it feels good. Need to find a personal trainer who can get both Kate and me jump started on a new resistance program.
Also, in dietary news. I have the found the secret to a healthy weight: eat less food. No kidding. I know. Obvious, right? Here’s what I’ve done: first, I imagined the portion I would 
eat for a meal and cut it in half. Surprisingly, not a hard thing to do. Still satisfying. second, I decided that I had to have a vegetable serving and a fruit serving at every meal. Again, obvious. You’re probably already doing it, but I’ve slouched along on the fruit/veggie thing. Now, each meal. third, I stopped eating while watching TV. This is an important change for me because it led to a lot of mindless eating. Now if I want a snack while watching TV I have to turn off the TV, go make something and eat it in the kitchen at the table.
Oddly enough, this relatively simple minded plan has worked. I’ve dropped ten pounds + since beginning it. The good news is that there’s nothing I’ll ever need to stop and it allows me to eat what I want, just less of it. And, actually, this is something, too, it makes it possible to have two really good meals out of what would have been one and done. I love that.