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Yep, dropped 2 lbs like a hot stone!  Sweet!!!!  I've been trying to find more fulfilling foods.  Breakfast on my days off from work is almond milk & some almond granola cluster flake cereal.  I ditched the box & saved the UPC for myfitnesspal.   Also found some blue cheese stuffed queen olives at ALDI that I'm in love with because it's only 20 calories each!  Been eating 2 a day whenever the hunger pains kick in but it's not meal time.

And, yea me...I'm doing 10 minutes on my elliptical now.  I realized the hip arthritis is from the cold, not the exercise.  Easy fix.  Ignore it.  After all, our brains tell us we are in pain and I rarely listen to what's going on in my head.  Bet that's the reason why I'm having so much trouble becoming 'aware.'

Plan to start back up on actual push ups instead of wall pushups. My intent is to move beyond 5 and add an extra one each day until I reach 50.  Want to add crunches too.

Friend at work told me about some arm exercises to help rid the granny flab I got going on.  Easy exercises that only take 30 seconds each because by the end of 30 seconds, arms are screaming.  Simply stretch arms out until you resemble the letter t and rotate forward 30 seconds, then backwards 30 seconds (like in grade school PE class.)  Then bend your arms in front like a boxer and try to touch your forearms together (or as I recall it from high school "you must, you must, you must increase your bust.")  Then with your arms still bent, reach up then back down.  Kinda like your lifting weights but with your hands in balled form and facing away.  Make sense?  Hope so.    I wonder if windmilling my arms will help?

Someday I will be doing jumping jacks again.  And hula hooping!  Maybe even light jogging?  Gotta get ready for the zombie apocalypse people.  After all, Trump did say "calm before the storm."  He probably means North Korea but I'm hoping for zombies.  (We call this sarcasm people.)

Tippy toes...baby steps.  I'm getting there folks.  Eat less, move more.