The thing about cookies, potato chips, and the like -- besides their tranquilizing effect -- is the ease of prep and cleanup.  Open full bag, toss empty bag, all in a single sitting! Done & dusted! I think about these things as I plunge my rubber-gloved hands into the clouds of suds in my kitchen sink. 

If laugh therapy can work magic for cancer patients, why not for us?

Now, all that's missing is...K I M !

Mignon and Leslie are back!

Thank goodness!  I've been lonely.  "Brick by brick, my citizens."

Hi, all. Maybe I haven't moved from this chair since May 5? Just looked back to see when I wrote to say I had made my first green drink (this time around). And here I am sitting here again, on May 15, in the same chair with the same green drink at my side, which is still tasting great. Honestly, I can't believe it's been 10 days. Because that means 10 days without a sugar slip, or a salt (potato chip) slip. To tell the truth, though, I am sick and tired of one more time trying to let go of my addiction to sweets, to overeating carbs to soothe myself. How many times do I have to climb the same mountain? But -- I am attempting not to look ahead. When Joe was little, I went 7 years (!) without sweets. Then, just like "taking the first drink" for an alcoholic, on the plane to Portland for one of Joe's birthdays, I decided then and there that I was going to have a piece of the rich chocolate cake that I've baked him every year since he turned 1. And that marked the end of my freedom from my drug of choice. I was off and running and have been battling my "addiction" ever since. Really sick and tired, to repeat, of this battle, and the weight-gain yoyo. And it does feel like a battle. So I won't look ahead because if I do, I envision myself slipping again and then having to start all over, one more time. So, mostly, I'm trying to take it a moment at a time, to hold my balance, to stay calm. 

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This is the challenge over and over. But, I bought my NEON gasp. Memory foam energized new walking shoes. I'm hoping they work. Walking was the best thing in my program.
Come out come out where ever you are and get back to the mindfulness of your health.