I’m having a bit of a crazy week at work this week. The last two days, it’s just been one problem after another. Is there a full moon this week? Maybe it’s that massive solar storm that hit the planet the other night! Having a crazy week at work is a good thing, though, and do you know why? Because I’m getting a paycheck, and not an unemployment check! Anything could be worse, right?
This hasn’t been a good week on the back pain frontier. Tonight, it’s a little better than it has been the last two days. I’ve been taking some herbal supplements lately. One of them is myrrh tablets, as in gold, frankincense and myrrh. It’s supposed to be a natual anti-inflammatory. I had run out, and just got a new supply today. Could it be that the myrrh tablets are helping more than I thought? I don’t know, but I guess I’m going to keep taking it for the time being.
I attended my Weight Watchers meeting today. I attended by phone, because I wasn’t physically there. I belong to a Weight Watchers @ Work group, and I’ve been telecommuting quite a bit lately, so I just connect to the meetings by phone. It’s not as good as being there live, but I got a good idea out of today’s meeting. Our leader said, “Did you ever eat something really fattening, like french fries, and they aren’t really that good, but you eat them anyway, and afterwards you wonder why you wasted your points for that”? And I, personally, have done that on many occasions, such as last weekend, when I had a mediocre order of fries, but ate them anyway! I’ve done this with egg rolls, also, another one of my weaknesses.
But, like I said in my post the other night, it’s one day at a time, one hour at a time, one moment at a time. Last Saturday was not a good day, but it’s in the past, and I can learn from it, but I can’t do anything to go back and change it. Today, on the other hand, was a pretty good day, at least as far as my food intake goes. My pain was pretty bad, but, if I take off some of this weight, I’m sure the pain level will improve. Granted, I’ll never be completely pain-fee because of the arthritis and spinal stenosis, but I just want to be able to live a more normal life than I am right now.
Back a long time ago, when this blog was called “Reduction Road Odyssey”, I had a page called my “I Want” list. I took this page off when I revamped the blog over last weekend, because there are some items on there that are not motivational, because I’ve discovered that there are some things on the list that I really don’t care about being able to do. I’m in the process, however, of updating this “I Want” list, so look for it to be added as a page to “Atherton’s Shack” sometime this weekend. Stay tuned . . . . .
