'Fessing Up

I've been having a lot of fun. Last summer, I spent much of the summer coping with chemo, recovering from surgery, and dealing with an unplanned three-day-hospital stay because of a bleeding colon polyp.

This summer, I've been on two vacations and when we haven't been away I've been hanging out with my friends and family. We've been roller skating, at the movies, at the water park, attending the free concerts in the park, and so on and so on.

It's been delightful but...my clothes are getting tight.



Yesterday, my friend and I took our little people to the local water park. I was floating along in the Lazy River, burning perhaps 2 calories per hour, and I told my friend:

"One of my most popular posts is One Naturally Thin Person's Habits and Resolutions. I need to read it and remember what I said."





So here's the deal: I'm not going to turn this blog into a weight loss journal (I promise!) but I'm making a public statement that I'm going to reverse the upward trend. Because that's what a naturally thin person does, right? I'm at the top of my personally-acceptable range. Blech.


For starters, I'm going to make sure that I get my exercise first thing in the morning, before it gets too hot.



I'm going to make sure that I get enough sleep. For me, sleep deprivation leads to junk calories. And I've been staying up late and getting up early. Sometimes it is worth it (like when I took the teens to the midnight release of the Harry Potter movie), and sometimes it is not (like when I stay up to watch more episodes of I Dream of Jeannie).