How to Kill a Holiday

...spend the better part of the entire day, in front of the computer, creating and then trying to customize a blog website. LOL Yep, that's me, and that's what I've just done. Of course, it would've helped if I had ANY IDEA of what I was doing. It took hours to find tutorials, and then seeing if I could customize them the way I wanted. I wish I could say I got all the laundry done (first load still waiting to hit the dryer) or got into the new book I'm trying to start (Alas, Babylon...but alas, I didn't.) It's a miracle I got cleaned up, and went grocery shopping. Oy vey.

Well, here we go!

So here I am. Not sure why. LOL I do know that I am at a crossroads in my life...but a good one. I've spent way too much of my life... living unhealthily. And that simply must change. My body is too old to keep this crap up. I've researched, and I'm going with a whole foods approach. Basically, I'm modifying the Mediterranean Diet that is so great for your heart. Since I need to lose SO much weight, I'm doing my own 1200 calorie per day version of it. I looked into the Sonoma Diet, which is a diet version of the Mediterranean, but it allows too much meat. Frankly, I need to seriously cut back on meat, until (at least?) I've lost all the weight, and my blood pressure, cholesterol, and all other heart disease markers are normal. Ya know, we eat and drink what we like for so many years, and then, frankly, our bodies revolt. Mine is revolting (on both levels. LOL) I KNOW that if I don't clean up my act soon, crap...I could seriously have a heart attack. I do NOT want that to happen. I have so much more living to do. I have a wonderful husband, great daughters, a great grandson and hopefully more grandchildren coming along soon, and crap...I just love life too much to give it up or have it relegated to being sickly. So now, while I still have the chance (fingers crossed), I'm going to do everything I can to heal my body.

But this blog/site won't be just about that. (although it might well focus on it, here in the beginning.) Not sure how much else I will publish about my thoughts, etc....I guess we'll play that by ear.

Thanks for stopping by!