…which is what I say when I figure that I am out of shape.

I weigh myself every day. (Yeah, I know.) And the weight has been creeping up. I’m finding that my legs (particularly my knees) are sometimes a bit stiff and sore as I walk or get up from a chair. And my pants are too tight.

I’m not really happy about all of this. But I am essentially lazy, so haven’t taken a whole lot of steps (literally) to rectify the situation.

But I have a plan. And I hope to stick to it.

1) I need to move a bit more. At work, I am usually sitting down at the desk. Not much movement other than fingers on the keyboard or moving the mouse around. So I wrote a silly little vbscript program that pops up a message every 20 minutes to get me to do some simple stretching and moving. I compiled it, and put it in my Startup group.

2) I need to eat less. I’ve always had the habit of cleaning my plate at meals. Part of my upbringing. And I usually find that by the time I push away from the table, I am really too full. So this part of the plan has to do with smaller portions. One spoonful of each dinner item. Put it on a smaller plate. And eat slowly.

3) Related to that, is snacking. I don’t snack much during the day, but will have one snack in the evening. New rule: no snacks after 7:00pm. Water is OK.

4) More water during the day. Two benefits, I think. First: more water is good for you. And second: more water equals more trips to that little room to get rid of all that extra water.

5) More posting here — every day. Each post will include the morning’s weight from the scale. That’s what the number is down there.

We’ll see how all this works.

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