Huff - Puff -Stretch - Pull - OUCH!!

Well, here we are, just about all the way through January. So how are you doing on your goals (or resolutions) about exercising or getting more physically active in general? Me? Not so hot.

I decided to take a beginner's exercise class at the local rec center. I bent twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. I even might have sprained something.


By the time I got my leotards on, the class was over !!

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I had just prepared that post, when my sweet s-i-l sent this e-mail my way:

T'was the month after Christmas, and all through the house,
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The cookies I'd nibbled, the chocolate I'd taste
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.
When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber),

I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;
The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,
The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt...
I said to myself, as I only can,
"You can't spend a winter, disguised as a man!"

So, away with the last of the sour cream dip.
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a cookie, not even a lick.
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.
I won't have hot biscuits, orcorn bread, or pie.
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore...
But isn't that what January is for?
Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.
Happy New Year to all, and to all a good diet.

Ain't it the truth?!?!