Whoo-hoo! Being sick has it's advantages!!!

Since I am still unable to smell or taste, I have not been cramming myself with fat-laden crap eating as much as usual, and I am down 5 lbs! I am finally back into the low-120's, which I haven't seen since the summer of 2001, before I started fertility drugs!!! I still have at least 10 or even 15 lbs. to go, but I am thinking that I might actually see my goal weight - HOPEFULLY before Detroit. Now I just need to firm up along the way - I can't wait to get signed up at the new health club and get started. Since I started running and lost the first big chunk of weight (now down 45 lbs!) my metabolism has revved up and I don't really worry about gaining anything, it's just the darn plateau that I was on that was pissing me off. Even when I tapered before the Pig I was eating the same or more without much exercise and I didn't gain an ounce. Once I get down to where I want to be, I hope the same holds true and I don't have to be eternally vigilant - I'm so sick of that. When I hit my lowest weight, years ago, I was weighing myself multiple times a day, consumed and paranoid. I don't want to go back to that.

There is a member of the North Face endurance running team, Kami Semick, who I think is da' bomb. I saw her pic in a print ad for North Face and thought "what a cool-looking chick". She might not be the "standard" for beauty, but I think it's awesome that somebody our age (we were both born in '66) isn't that concerned with her crows feet et al. Girls half her age would be lucky to be in her shape! She is who I picture when I imagine what I want to look like someday - I doubt I will ever really get there with my child-bearing hips (which is really a misnomer, because even with my wide pelvis the doctor STILL had to forcibly remove my itty bitty 5 lbs. daughter) but it gives me something to strive for.

Geneva is better every day and I think she will be OK for her recital. She has been using my facial steamer with some eucalyptus oil a couple of times a day and man, does that clear out the sinuses. Jon's ear still hasn't popped and he can't hear out of it, but at least he is now on antibiotics so hopefully he will have some relief soon. I actually felt human this morning, so I know I am just on the verge of being healthy again. Sunday will be the first run in a record 2 weeks and I am anxious to see how it goes - I have not gone that long without running since I started up again in October. Wow, that's hard to believe...I guess I really have left part of my couch-potatoedness behind.