I've had several bits of excitement since I've last posted.

I've put on 25 pounds in the last couple years  and it's not because of a slow metabolism or any other lame excuse. 



A couple  years  ago I had  been fighting horrible boughts of exhaustion, no energy, falling asleep as soon as I sit down. I finally went to the doctor after a few months of feeling this way. She thought it had a lot to do with my uterine fibroids and went on to list a bunch of symptoms associated with fibroids....oh, my gosh! It was me to a tee. She sent me on to a GYN.







After he examined me and checked the results from several sonograms he informed me I was full of fibroids and that I needed a hystorectomy.





For some reason that great pronouncemnt affected me greatly . I said "but that means I can't every have any children" My hubby and I kept thinking maybe we'd like to have kids but "not right now." And after 17 years of marriage it's not like we really will have kids but ocassionally I imagine that perfect child who is well behaved, brillant, well mannered, talented etc, etc, that would bring nothing but perfect joy to our lives. (Yes, I know laugh it up.) Well anyway, the GYN said, "even if you did get pregnant- which at your age is very difficult-there's no place for the baby to grow." I left his office in tears and basically didn't stop eating until after the surgery.  







I got into a clinical trial at NIH for uterine fibroids.   Hey, I figure if I'm doing something with these things I may as well do something that will help others in the future







I had my hysterectomy back in December 2007. My recovery went well but I got out of the habit of exercising and I've pretty much returned to my bad eating habits from several years ago.   And after 8 months of recovery I guess it's time to get serious about being fit. Not so much losing weight but being healthy.

I've changed jobs.  It's odd, I'm in a more physically challeging position but it's whole less stressful then my old one.  



So I'm focusing on the right now concept:

Right now-what can I do right now to be healthy? What can I do right now to increase my physical activity? Right now I really want a cookie, but maybe later I won't. So right now I won't eat the cookie but do something else for right now.