My life is an exclamation!

How have you been Grainiacs?  It's been a while, I know.  Truly this past semester of classes kept my nose in the books and my head in a constant "say what????" 

I really think the stress of going back to school is packing on the fat on my belly.  Yeah, that's it; it's the classes I'm taking.  Education is hazardous to your weight!!  I mean we've read about the Freshman 15; how about the Grad Fifty?!?  Funny thing about my family: all of my children LOST weight when they went to college.  Instead of gaining 15, they lost 15.  It must be me and Hubby.  We are the culprits.  No one else can take the blame.  I admit it.... I love food and not just any food.....ICE CREAM!!!!  PIE!!!!  If it's creamy, it's MINE!!!!!  Okay, enough with the exclamations!!  really, last time.

I love life.  I do.  I love being here.  I love meeting with friends (had a great girls' weekend last week).  I love talking on the phone...or browsing the internet.  I love driving.  I love watching a good sitcom.  I LOVE going to the movies.  Do you notice anything about my "loves?"  I just did.  They are all sedentary activities.  I wish I loved exercising.  Or playing tennis.  Or running or even walking.  I do love swimming, but I don't love getting TO the pool and I especially don't like public pools.  I guess I'm becoming somewhat of a germ-a-phobe.  I really loved going to a wellness center last summer but we don't have one here in cucaracha-ville.

So what's a lazy-ass strawberry to do?  First things first.  I've started back with my yoga routine.  Okay, so it's not a routine yet, but it will be!!  AND...I'm giving up ice cream for a week (you really don't know how hard that will be here in the south Texas heat!).  Instead I'm going to make healthy popsicles.  For a creamy popsicle, I can either make a frozen yogurt popsicle or I can buy the low-cal fudgsicle at the store.

I'm back to the baby steps that helped me lose 15 pounds.  I cannot be disgusted with myself because this has to be a changed lifestyle.  I eat too much Mexican food, too much fast food, too many Diet Cokes, and too many sweets.  Life as I know it will end, but life will not end.  I can still love being here!  I can still love meeting with friends!  I can still love movies! and cold things!  And I can still use my exclamations!!!