Has anyone ever tried to go low carb? Cripes!!!! It's REALLY HARDDDDDDD!!!! I tried for just one day. I think giving up cigarettes would be easier.

One of the highlights of my day: Incorporating my five year old into my "exercise routine," after the treadmill got boring. My keister and legs were so sore after throwing snowballs at the local boys 2 days ago (you know, squatting and quickly standing up repetitively) , that I thought if I could do some kind of fun activity with Will using the same movements, it would be great for my lower body. So....we ended up having a great time throwing small and medium sized stuffed animals at each other in the hall downstairs. When that got a little dull for Will, we brought over containers to try to make baskets. Often, we would make baskets as the animals bounced off the person behind the "basket." It got our blood pumping, and was quite a bit more entertaining than the dour treadmill.

I just took a handful of photos of myself to update my profile photo. The one you see probably looks "mildly serene," but I had to deliberately force a "relaxed, happy face" just to get to the level of "mildly serene." When I took photos of myself just LOOKING at the camera in my NATURAL STATE, I looked deadly serious, or malevolent, or mean, or even stuck up!!! Cripes!!! If you had taken a photo of my face in the midst of throwing animals, I'm sure it would have been a different story!! :D