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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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July 19, 2005

Commencement permalink

Okay, today, I start again. Clean slate. Here we go!

I forgot, entirely forgot, that walking gives you the gift of time and observation. It gives you the time to really look at things, and the time to really hash stuff out.

This morning was sunny and cool. We opened up the house and turned on the fans, filling the house with chilly, sweet smelling air. This was particularly nice after having had a good night's sleep with the AC on, and Follette locked in with us. She ate a plate of wet food, and then snuggled like a fiend with us. Brilliant!

I managed a high-protein vegetarian breakfast -- fake sausage! Yay!! And while I left home late, I still walked and got into work on time. I was on the lookout for feral kittens, which Sweetie had mentioned that he had seen. But no such luck. I did see some new additions to a cool backyard, a lone breadseed poppy in a weedy front yard, and a cool old house with a massive second-floor sunroom.

I am always housing obsessed, and right now I am thoroughly garage and sleeping porch fixated. Garages are easy to find... but sleeping porches, not so. The other night I scootered by a cute house for sale, and low-and-behold, it had a sleeping porch. And was $600K. Oh well.
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So, anyways. Clean slate. I walked in at a 16 minute/mile pace. Leisurely, but nice. I had thoughts of including some jogging, which I ignored. I feel like I've screwed up enough walks with that sort of thing. I need to do that, but it needs to be secondary.

Today I recommit myself to healthy living. Exercise! Eating decently! Aiming lower on the food chain! Damn straight!

Posted at July 19, 2005

Comments

You sounds very positive in your post VJ - that's so terrific and so nice to "hear." :-)

Posted by: neca at July 20, 2005 5:38 AM

Oh VJ, I'm glad to hear that you're taking care of yourself right now. That whole job situation sounds like the pits.

Posted by: Megan at July 20, 2005 6:21 AM

Good luck to you - It's possible, by the way. I've been a strict vegetarian since 2000 and it's possible to be active as well. www.Vegweb.com has great recipes you can try.

Posted by: Misty at July 21, 2005 5:43 AM