W’s father became quite ill and we spent almost 3 days in the hospital. Do you know what a hospital chair can do to a relatively strong back? Turns it into pulsating, quivering, throbbing ball of human flesh and muscles as per the Goddess of Crappy Hospital Chairs’  instructions. Being hunchbacked will forever ruin my chances at being a shoe model.

But I did take some of the downtime to go to the cafeteria, have a coffee, a fiber bar and write.With a pen. No laptop for me. For I am a life coach and you can’t get a laptop no matter how hard you smile at the salesmen.  I revised advertising copy for a friend’s newsletter; I answered some probing questions put to me by a fellow blogging friend; I wrote some copy for an upcoming Coaches on the Edge blog and I squeezed my butt muscles the whole time I was down there. No wonder my back feels like crap.

So today I am back to being held accountable. I even got up this morning at 5:30 to listen to my 30 minute mediation tape (I didn’t get up – just laid there in bed – must have taken some truth serum) and then walked for 1.41 miles on the treadmill. Plan to do another 2 miles later today. Just to show my back who is in charge. Right now it’s: Back – 5,  The rest of me – 1.

And I got back to writing my blog.    

Do tell – how was your week?

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I am lucky to say that I live with a wonderful ex-chef who makes fabulous meals.  He has agreed to help me out (after about 6 days of begging but whatever works!). I bought the Flat Belly cookbook and he even “post-it” a few recipes but said most of them are about portion control.

I realized sadly that I normally eat twice my weight when my chef takes a night off and we order take out. So I told him no more take out and on the evenings that he deserves a night off, I will find myself in the kitchen and putting together something that resembles food. So this was good news. Today is Day One. Yesterday was Moe’s Mexican food.                      

The other thing I realized that is has to taste so bloody good for me to go off this new way of eating – my new lifestyle. If I am going to have the best Mexican food again it will be from the Mexican deli on Valencia in San Francisco. It will also be a very expensive meal since I live in NY. So I will let you know when hell freezes over.

I did more work on the coaches on the edge’s book proposal and got some of it back from my copyeditor friend. Once these sections are done – we will be that much closer to getting it out to overly eager literary agents who will get us a great publisher who will give us anything we want. That’s legal.

I am keeping this short and I hope you will join in and let us know how you are doing and how we can help keep you on track. One of the things I want to do is take better care of me. So I did 2.14 miles on the treadmill and now I am off to have a HOT, smoothing bath. Here is NY the wind is whipping and the temps are really dipping below zero.   

So do tell!