Then the Bottom Drops Out

**PHOBIA ALERT** I'm posting a picture of my feet.



So, I'd been doing really well with my new healthy-living incentive. I even lost a couple pounds! Hooray!! Then last Thursday - Valentines Day - I walked into a room and WHAM!!! I heard a crack and felt A LOT of pain in my left foot.

My neighbor friend came over (she's a nurse) and looked at it, felt it - Ow. - and compared it to the other foot. It was swollen and "injured", but even if it was broken there's nothing that I could do about it. So much for my exercising streak! Boo. Hiss.

I hobbled around the store and the house the rest of the day, trying to make a nice Valentines dinner for my husband and I. And watch the dogs. And care for my child. All while trying to put as little pressure on my very sore foot as possible. On the bright side, my right quadricep and buttocks got an awesome workout that day!

AND my friend thinks it was just a sprain because it feels better each day. Now it's mostly just a nasty bruise. See!

That bluishness on the left side is not shadow.

Common Cents

Inspiration has struck! My other half and I had been doing our thing to lose weight this year (I know, typical New Year's Resolution.) He's training for a half-marathon. I'm training for... life in a smaller body. I'm pretty sure I'm ready for that.

Anyway, the first month, he lost 10 pounds. I lost 2, but managed to find them in a I-hate-that-he-can-lose-weight-and-I-can't eating-fest weekend. Nevermind that he was running, swimming, biking, and cutting out refined sugars. I was thoroughly depressed about the whole thing. And then it hit me. A great idea to keep me honest and actually working at being healthy. This is it:

We each get a jar to our name (or initial, as you see). There's $20 in dimes and nickels to split. Every day, we get a dime for each healthy activity: no sweets, 30 minutes of exercise, and 5 fruits and vegetables a day. That's a possible 30 cents a day, with the option to earn another nickel for every 15 extra minutes of exercise. If we don't do the fruits and veg or exercise we don't get a dime. But if we eat sweets, we have to take a dime from our jar and add it to the other person's. When all the loose change is gone, whoever has the most, wins the cash / or the better prize.

I'm already pretty sure he's going to win. But I figure if this actually helps me to get in shape, I've won that much anyway! So far it sure helps me think twice about sneaking that cookie if I lose a hard-earned dime for it! Yay for inspiration! And for progress!

Here's the Skinny

So, I'm sure you've Jessie's noticed I haven't posted in a while. I've come up with a few things sometimes, but alas, "It's not that funny!". So I haven't bothered to publish them.

I figured I could always address the fluffy-to-fit topic, but it's just so embarrassing! I confessed to Jessie that I wasn't ready to post on here until my current weight would be less humiliating... and then realized that my weight loss ticker is still on the bottom of this blog. That blabbermouth ticker! (I'll save you the trouble of scrolling down - "Wendy's lost 0 lbs.")

Anyway, since it's a winter wonderland outside, and probably will be for the next few months, it's hard to be motivated to exercise instead of curling up with a book, a blanket, and a pastry. Have you found anything that works for you? I have! But not anything that works for me yet. HA!

But seriously, winter workout/weight loss ideas - Go: