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Perseverance is the quality found in people of an enthusiastic temperament, who, once they have discerned the favorable possibilities of an enterprise, allow nothing to divert them. - H. Bessler, "Mental Efficiency", 1915

Hello, dear people of enthusiastic temperament! Our enterprise is favorable! We know healthy habits like quality eating, adequate rest or daily activity have added benefits to our lives and our family's lives, so let's not be diverted! Keep up the consistency in December and we'll persevere together!

Last month, 2 of our number, Mystery Woman and Emptynester, reached milestone goals. Thanks so much to them for their consistent inspiration.







I found the above quote in a little book once belonging to my great, great uncle Edward. Edward had been a powerhouse as a young man, but lost a leg and spent the rest of his life with a primitive artificial limb that barely allowed him to walk. He persevered and went on to have a successful life, becoming mayor of his town and a county commissioner. He loved the little book and read it often, eventually giving it to my grandfather.

Thanks for starting us out in this thread Harriet!
Did my walk today it was 42* and better than yesterday's 36*
I put on two pr. of gloves just in case and that helped
I need to dig out my winter ones.

Harriet, thanks for getting us started yesterday. I am counting calories using a application for my Itouch called "Lose it!" and dh is doing the same. Yesterday ended up 460 calories over my prescribed calories of 1456 but will do better today since I have a workout later.

Today it's pretty cold out so I've been doing some stuff inside
up and down the stairs getting Christmas decorations out.
Vacuumed a rug in the basement etc.
Held my own over the turkey day holiday so I'm pleased!

Today it was barely above freezing so I did inside stuff just tried to keep moving.
Picking up stuff going up and down the stairs with laundry etc.
counting that an added bonus is that the house looks better today!
It's clouding up so I"m hoping for warmer weather.
The sun was out at least.

Slim Fast, the ready made cans are on voluntary recall. Some sort of bacteria scare.

I have some of the powder, which I'll do if I'm in a real hurry. If I get too hungry I usually overeat. This is helping me not do that. And this kind is not under recall.

It was 4* when I got up today it's only supposed to be 16* for a hi. temp.
so I've been doing housework for my exercise and shopping yesterday counted.

I did not remember we had a recall thread going, feel free to move it if you want.

Sunday morning I got out my suitcase of too small clothes and found 4 sweaters and 3 pairs of jeans I can now wear. How happy that made me!

However, the last couple days' bad eating choices leave me with several pounds of fluid, I need to work on that and get my diet back on track. I'm no longer afraid I can't do this. Though I'm finding being on this diet day in and day out for so long stressful, I'm sure I can keep it up as long as necessary.