Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

The last month-and-a-half have been hard on me, laid up with this knee injury, but it also helped me realize how much I need exercise in my life. Without exercise I turn to food, which has made my waist-size much larger. When I couldn’t walk, or clean the house, or do the laundry, or vacuum, or cook the dinner, or supervise the kitchen clean-up, or simple walk through the yard searching for all the signs of spring, I turned to food. The girl scout cookies, the chips, the pretzels, the cake, the ice cream, all went down-the-hatch and on the body. An awful 20# came on in the past 6 weeks; on a body that had already put 12# back on since our long camping/hiking trip out west, and another 20# during the previous year. Food has always been a problem for me, and I have never not been in the clean-plate club, or been one to forget to eat a meal. It is a battle I constantly fight and when I let my guard down the pounds slip back on.

So my little secret is out, and I have my work cut out for me. Exercise and I are going to become good friends again. Actually we have always been great friends and I’ve never been one to not get out and exercise, even when the pounds were slipping on. This was one of my reasons for getting a dog back into our lives; having a dog would force me to get outside for a morning walk and an evening walk. Much to his delight ScienceKid is finding this out. He is very body conscience and recently remarked that his 2-3 daily dog walks, which add up to about 8 miles a day, has trimmed his body up. I can’t really tell that he has lost any inches or pounds but if he feels better than that is great. I’m looking forward to when I can join him on those walks too.

Isn’t he gorgeous! These photos were taken last week on his 4 month birth date. He stands about 24″ at the shoulders. His legs are actually further apart then what is shown in this stand too. And his fur, it is still so soft and feels like lambs wool, except it doesn’t have lanolin in it.

Eating (again) right out of my hand.

And just a mere 55# here. Just about the amount of weight I need to take off. Exercise, I need some.