2025: A Breath of Fresh Air

  Since 2025 has been a horrible year so far (from a diet and exercise perspective), I decided to restart the year early this month. I'm titling my blog's with the date, because I tend not to write every day and it gets hard to keep track of the days. I will still try to capture everything I've been up to when I do write. It was nearly 10 am when I got up today, so I guess I was tired ! I go to bed around 11 but if I'm playing Jackpot World hours can go by before I actually go to sleep. I try not to take the tablet to bed every night, but at this point it doesn't matter what time I go to sleep or what time I get up. I'd actually prefer being an early riser, but that 11 pm reset on Jackpot World pulls me in every night ! I like to get right in there and collect rewards, send coins to my friends and get the daily challenges done. It's a competition thing with me that exists only in my mind. I'm going to make more of an effort to leave the tablet downstairs...

  Since 2025 has been a horrible year so far (from a diet and exercise perspective), I decided to restart the year early this month. I'm titling my blog's with the date, because I tend not to write every day and it gets hard to keep track of the days. I will still try to capture everything I've been up to when I do write. It's been nearly a month since I last wrote, and nothing much has changed. I'm still retired/unemployed. I still go to rock & roll bingo on Wednesday nights and I am still struggling with diet and exercise. Both struggles are exacerbated by laziness and a lack of will power. Exercise is further exacerbated by my addiction to the online slot games. I'd rather sit and play games all day instead of taking 30 minutes out for some exercise. I did have a couple things to do this month and I managed to do that. The car needed inspection and my driver's license needed to be renewed. I got the inspection done last week and I renewed my  license ...

  Since 2025 has been a horrible year so far (from a diet and exercise perspective), I decided to restart the year yesterday. Going forward I'm just going to title my blog's with the date, because I tend not to write every day and it gets hard to keep track of the days. I will still try to capture everything I've been up to when I do write. It was chilly when I got up this morning ! The thermostat in the dining room read 65 and Minnie was curled up in a ball on her pillow on the couch. The sun chased the chill away before long and I love seeing the blue skies and sunshine ! It was just after 9:30 when I got up and by 12:30 it was a comfortable 73 outside. I felt good this morning and once the cats were taken care of I sat down to enjoy my breakfast while watching YouTube and catching up on my slot games. I'm trying again to keep the kitchen clean so I tidied up, went upstairs and made my bed then got myself dressed. I also made a protein shake to ensure there were no ex...

  Since 2025 has been a horrible year so far (from a diet and exercise perspective), I decided to restart the year yesterday. Going forward I'm just going to title my blog's with the date, because I tend not to write every day and it gets hard to keep track of the days. I will still try to capture everything I've been up to when I do write. I slept in a bit today - it was almost 10 when I finally got up ! I'm not sure what time it was when I went to sleep but it wasn't horribly late. I guess I was tired !  Breakfast was a 180 calorie cherry cheese roll. Still one of my Nutrisystem favorites and I was happy they brought it back ! Around 12:30 I had an 80 calorie yogurt with my second cup of coffee.  Before I had that second cup of coffee I got myself dressed, make a protein shake, put on my treadmill shoes and plugged in my tablet to get a full charge. I have iFit on my old tablet and it doesn't charge very fast. It's 1:24 now and it's at 90%, so I'll...

  Since 2025 has been a horrible year so far (from a diet and exercise perspective), I've decided to restart the year today. Going forward I'm just going to title my blog's with the date, because I tend not to write every day and it gets hard to keep track of the days. I will still try to capture everything I've been up to. I last wrote on Tuesday July 22 and it was a good day. I managed to get 2 workouts in that day ... and then nothing. Wednesday was the usual rock & roll bingo outing. It was fun as usual ! Thursday was unremarkable but Friday was the Mets game with Rich, Barb, Michelle and Mike. It was fun as usual and it helped that we won and there were fireworks after the game ! It was their "Christmas in July" promotion so we got santa jerseys for free. Largest size was XL so I need to lose some weight if I ever want to wear it ! Saturday I did nothing but Sunday I managed to wash the car. It was so overdue. I was about 80% done when the heat got th...

  Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet. It may be Day 201 on the calendar, but this is day 2 of my latest attempt to resume exercise. It's 1:26 pm now and I completed 14m33s on the treadmill about 10 minutes ago. This is only workout 11 for 2025 !!! I actually managed to get a second workout in today ! It was 13m09s. I was awake around 8:40 today and was up before 9. It was chilly for a late July day and as of 1:49 pm it's only 71. It's sunny, s...