I finally weighed myself and see that this is not a good time to start sewing. I need to renovate first. I had gone to 170 now I'm back to 187! 17 pounds over 9 months or so. As a breast cancer survivor, I really need to keep the weight down - don't need extra estrogen producing fat hanging around. So it is time to redouble regroup redefine and generally refuse to eat stuff I should not. Found this little ticker thingy and threw it up here. Now I'm looking for 4 or 5 standard meals I can afford, easily fix and like.

When I say easy, I mean

• Cottage cheese and pineapple tidbits with Diet Green Tea
• V8 with almonds and 100 calorie pack popcorn.
• Yogurt, whey protein and fruit-from-frozen-bag smoothie
• Oven roasted meat (pork chop or chicken breast) and veggies

See, I like to cook and I like to eat, but I 'm not always ready for the work involved. I find at 55 I have a finite quantity of project/task oriented energy. I can usually get myself to do significant portions of a task before this quantity runs out and its time for me to renew, much like my digital appliances. However, unlike them, I have no spare battery and the recharge cycle is unpredictable.

My patience for grocery/supply shopping is excellent. I make a list and read labels and get every thing, even if I have to go to multiple stores. And I always get the perishables put away. Then I'm done. Spent. Nothing else happens until I get another burst of whatever it is that makes people get up off their behinds and start doing stuff. Often times that takes long enough for whatever I bought to start to rot in the fridge.

Actually, I do a ton of stuff --on the computer. Just not much stuff that calls for moving around. Which brings me back to my mission to leave my fat behind. Let me get up!

No more sewing without showing

I'm figuring out blogging to keep track of stuff I make - good, bad and all. We'll see how this goes.