I joined a gym in early December. I’ve been going twice a week, with the goal that I would add a third workout, which I succeeded in doing this week. The gym is in my building so I’m going before work—which means I’m only doing 30 min on an elliptical jogging machine, but I’m doing it at a high enough level that it says I’m burning 500 calories. 500 calories burned before breakfast is good enough for me, even if I’m only exercising 30 min.

Before Thanksgiving, I had put on about 20 lbs pretty quickly after straying from my health kick from the spring and summer. Thankfully, I’ve lost about 13 lbs of that—and I did that DURING the holidays. 10 more lbs and I’ll be back to working on new weightloss. Baby steps…