A slower start than expected - but not discouraged!

I got up early yesterday to try out my new shoes and sweatpants. The pants are great! I think the shoes are great too, but my shins were really bothering me. :-( It was fairly cold, so I don't know if it was because I wasn't warmed up (I did start out slow), or because I didn't put the heel cushions in the new shoes (which I ususally use), or what. My shins have been giving me problems on my afternoon walks as well. For now, I think I'll try walking in the evenings and see if that makes a difference.

Well, not exactly "right now" since I seem to be coming down with a cold! I am using salt water to clean my sinuses and drinking plenty of hot lemon water with honey. If I'm not feeling too wiped out, I may try a shorter walk with the dogs this evening.

Even though I wasn't feeling all that hot, I told my husband 'no' when he asked if I wanted to go out to eat last night. I managed to make a decent supper and after that we went down to the gym to sign he & the boy up. Our plan is to go as a family on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Hub and I will go a third time on the weekend.

Also yesterday, I was reading another blogger and she was talking about the fact that Dax Moy (a British nutrition guru) has a free diet posted, complete with tracking diary. It's called "The Elimination Diet", and its a sort of de-tox thing. In a nutshell, it's about getting the processed foods, sugar, caffeine, out of your diet. No strict food plan or anything - more like guidelines around what to get rid of. As I said yesterday, plenty of crap has crept back into my routine eating and I know I always feel better when that stuff is gone! So this will be a useful tool to help me do that.

Yesterday hub took some old (broken) gold jewelry and sold it at a local jewelry store. That's money for the emergency fund. It's funny how the current economic situation is really getting us to be more frugal, less wasteful, and do little things like that. That stuff (not repairable) had been sitting around in drawers for years - now it's money in the bank.

The current economic situation is bad, but I hope the silver lining is that we become a little less wasteful as a society.

Okay, have a good day!