ehhhhhhhh

I hate wasting days in bed sick. I definitely would prefer exercising today to this. All day I have been sleeping, reading and complaining about this damn summer respiratory flu. In fact, I am so lazy I am using my phone's text to speech to write this blog.

This weekend I haven't done much in the way of planning but I haven't done much in the way of eating either and I am somewhat anticipating stepping on the scale to see what affect my illness has had. Honestly, I'm just laying here wasting space so I have no right to hope for much of anything.

One good thing came out of coming down with this crud is that I have a good excuse to avoid the neighbors barbecue this afternoon. I have two neighbors far younger, cuter, and more attractive than me  and I can't but help feel like a blob standing next to them. I don't want to wear my go-to black elbow length top and black capris yet again, feeling sweaty, awkward and conspicuous. So there's that.

I've been revisiting doing the Eat to Live diet by Joel Fuhrman mostly because it promises a likely weight loss of 20 pounds in 6 weeks and I really need that running start. That and I suspect I've been getting sick so frequently because my nutritional intake has been crap. What's sad is that will get me back to where I was a year ago but I am really trying not to look back. Where I am at now is my new start line. While I am lazing in bed I am going to go back to some of the weight loss books I have at my disposal, plans for meals, and work on envisioning what success looks like.

(Text to speech is hilarious. Apparently envisioning what "Texas" looks like is a more plausible translation for my mumbling than "success". And sadly that is an astute observation.)