OK - this is it! I retired in June of 2007, moved across country from the San Francisco Bay area to North Carolina, with my husband, Ted, bought a new home and almost finished opening boxes, visited with my grandchildren, embarked on several trips with my husband, and gained 10 pounds!
When I was working it seemed easier to maintain a schedule of working out (walking and yoga) which kept my weight in check for the most part. Now that I'm retired, it's as if I have lost all disclipine. I don't want to get up at the crack of dark anymore--I'll do it later in the day. Well, later never comes and I'm now what I call "lazy", loving nothing more than sitting on the screened-in back porch with my morning coffe instead of starting the day with yoga or the treadmill at the gym.
The scale is showing the result and at this rate, I will be 200 pounds by 2013 (I did the math). I cannot let that happen. My health is too important to me. If I want to live to be a "vibrant" 100 years old--This is not the way to do it.
So tomorrow starts a new lease on life - fitness, hobbies, spiritual growth, the nurturing of my 36-year relationship with my life partner--all of the items that make a person whole. Don't worry self, it will be a day at a time--no more of this blasting out of the box and then crashing and burning--I promise.
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