Ok here is a major confession. Starting in January, my life pretty much turned upside down and I eventually fell through the looking glass into a whole different world. During this time of quitting my job, packing up my house in NC (and I lived in that house for 15 years so the job sorting and packing and downsizing was enormous!) I developed what we thought was a respiratory infection. Two quick med visits, two ER visits, and God knows how many md visits later, an md here in FL came to the conclusion that it was asthma. It took months to get to that, and would not have if things had been stable and I was seeing my regular MD. All this to say, I have been on and off prednisone since January. Three days ago I took my last one. On the up side, the constant CRAVING for sweets if magically gone! On the downside the energy that you get from the med is also gone. I feel stiff and sore and exhausted and more than anything I feel the weight of every pound I carry and that includes the SIX POUND I gained while on prednisone.

So I am looking at today as ground zero. Today I am planning to be my one perfect day. I had planned to do this two days ago and fate laughed at me and created a family crisis and we ended up having dinner in a restaurant and getting home late. But today I got up early, plan to spend the day at home, and plan to do EVERY mfp step correctly. That is my total plan. One perfect day.

The day has started well and I have been up for two whole hours! Surely I can do this! Also, this is one of those days when I have a long list of tasks but they are all here in this house! It's easier for me to stay organized and do well when I am home!