I haven’t updated this blog in a while.  There are a couple of reasons for my silence.  One is the fact that I was hospitalized with double pneumonia for 10 days in the beginning of November.  When I got out of the hospital, most of my focus was on getting my stamina and strength back.  I was also barred from exercise for a while, and I allowed myself to be convinced that being sick also meant that I needed to eat to build up my strength.  Basically I gave myself a license to pork out and be lazy for the last few months.  I’ll give you one guess what the results of that were.

Now, however, it is a new year and a new start.  The good news is that most of my muscle tone has held up pretty well.  The bad news is that the pneumonia really sucked away a lot of my stamina.  It didn’t do my breathing any good either.  That means I have some ground to make up.  Some of the gains I made have now been lost, but I guess I just have to accept that.  As I generally say after any of my health adventures, it could have been worse.

I have started to get back into exercising and I’m also working on getting my eating back into shape.  Over the next few weeks I plan to share a lot of what I’m doing here on this blog.  I have some new theories about eating and a few ideas about exercise as well.  I also got some new exercise DVDs I want to review, some of which I liked, and some of which weren’t for me.

I’m looking forward to a new year and a new start on meeting my weight loss goals.  If I have any say in it, 2010 is going to be a successful and  less weighty year.