Day 7

Well, I have lost the five pounds from my weekend trip! hurrah. It also seems that those aren't "real" pounds, so my new goal is to lose a completely different set of five pounds.
So far so good today. I went for a thirty minute walk in the park. I love autumn, it has a certain atmosphere that makes you enjoy that last few days you can go outside before winter, the air is crisp and the leaves turning. It was ... I can't think of a good word. Sharp? melancholy? how about just pretty, outside today.
As for food I had organic oatmeal for breakfast, with a sprinkle of brown sugar and then after my walk I had a two cup bowl of low fat chicken rice soup. My tea addiction continues. If I can switch half my tea to green tea than that will help, I hate sugar in green tea. In english tea I looove that sweet taste. I blame my mother who used to make milky sweet tea, and dip her pinky finger in to test the temperature. I think I was ten or eleven then so it is a lifelong addiction. My water consumption needs help too.

I was watching that weight loss contest show last night, the biggest loser. I did notice that there was a huge discrepancy between men and women. The show has each team member weigh in and the team that lost the most weight wins. Now, the woman who lost the most weight in a week lost 13 pounds. The others lost, 9,7 and 10 I think. The numbers for the men however were shocking. One lost 26 pounds! and the guy with the lowest loss had lost 15 pounds. The others lost about 20. Is that fair? hell no. On the other hand, with the heart attack risks for men perhaps that is the universes way of evening out the odds. More women than men survive into their 80's . Maybe I will give up rapid weight loss for the extra retirement years.

In other news, my knee aches on the side in the morning, but the continued physio excercises will perhaps help. I have more excercises now and a total of 8 different things to do daily with my legs.

I also realized that my desire for thin thighs had been detrimental. Apparently all the side leg lifts I did as a teenager and student have caused the muscles on the outside of my leg to pull the knee cap over to the outside. I thought that this would get rid of those saddlebags on the side of the leg. Warning to all, if you do lifts on the outside of the leg make sure you work on the corresponding muscles on the inside.