Steps

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,” which is a quote from Lao Tzu, Laozi an old master or old one, a Chinese philosopher who supposedly lived during the sixth century BC, but he was mythological and he is generally considered honorific.
An East Asian philosopher of the school of Taoism, notable ideas of Wu wei which translates to taking action.
How interesting, huh?

Well I thought the quote was relevant since I have begun my journey that may even be more than a thousand steps. Yes, probably two hundred thousand or more like a million more, lol.
Today was day two of this undertaking one that is purely selfish and well worth the effort!
Odd and perhaps not so nice of me being that way at this time of the year but I do think being good to ones self is important too.
I have been unjustly mean or bad to myself with my self-defeprecating attitude with me.

And today I did step up the program with adding a count of fifteen for my arms. I did have a nasty leg cramp and I will from now on have to remember to take my Baclofen, my anti-spasmodic, before beginning, because once I am down on the mat, I am down on that mat!

I have such high hopes and I do know that I am capable of sticking to this self improvement project of mine; since it is literally a matter of life and death!
Like anything these days it is not a temporary situation; it is a lifestyle change.
I am also watching my salt intake too.
It seems that I was hooked too much on pickles and olives, not chips like most of the obese.
But to my good I do love salads of the fresh vegetable kind and I do love to make homemade soup. Today I made my own asparagus soup and had a salad topped with canned salmon, about two ounces, and a light homemade dressing of our own lemons from our tree juice and a bit of olive oil with a wee bit of sea salt and ground black pepper with a dash of ground garlic. Breakfast was an over the counter canned diet drink of 190 calories, mid morning snack was a fresh peach, dinner was chicken, white meat a few slices and one wing, half of a sweet potato and another dose of my salad this time with fat free sour cream, approximately a teaspoon full; hummm. I did mention that I am a Jew, but never a kosher one…LOL! Because if I were I would never mix milk and meat!

Any-who, moving on…
Last night our internet provider did not come back online until after ten P.M., and so I was sound asleep for hours by then thus why my post was delayed.
I was for some strange reason exhausted.
And I hit the hay, as the expression goes…which means for my foreign readers, went to sleep and it was early like before eight o’clock.
But I suppose that was good since they, here we go again, who is, ‘they’?
The theory is by 'they' that lack of sleep also helps with weight gain, and so therefore sleeping has the opposite effect, correct?
I did sleep except for a few bathroom runs until after seven in the morning!
Wow!
If this trend continues I could be my old self in no time at all!
All the puzzle pieces could be falling into place.
Dear out of America friends again this expression just means going to work out with my work outs, got that?
LOL!

Our weather here has also been fairly nice enough to leave the windows open the last two days, fresh air, how wonderful!
But we are going to be getting a few colder nights starting next Tuesday but only another aberration of our norms, and we have been promised that all will return to the right stuff that we are so proud of and brag about once again after only a couple of colder nights, but with days in the sixties and back to the mid-seventies after that! Christmas will be a beautiful sunny mid seventies day!

On that short weather report from this novice reporter of such I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?