I’ve cut myself down to one soda a day, in the hopes that I can perhaps even wean off the soda entirely. I’m looking to organize my exercise program. For some people when they’re doing a program like that they might take something like Phentermine but that’s not something I’m interested in doing. With my illness I take enough pills I don’t want to add any more if I can do something else instead.

For us also it’s about modeling good behavior for our son. He already knows way too much about soda, so I’d like to nip that sort of behavior in the bud. I’m not going to ban him from soda entirely, but I’d rather he view it as a treat than something that’s an acceptable to drink all the time. That sort of thing. I’m glad that he asks for fruit as well as cake and cookies, and that he will ask for water to drink, but any time there’s soda around he’s chasing around and trying to steal it. So, we need to sort hat sort of thing out.

Other than that I’m back to work. I have a couple of email requests and I’m hoping to write my notes on those while he’s napping this afternoon.

I do try to walk around our neighborhood but as the Florida weather creeps towards unpleasantly hot it’s hard to be able to do that. So, I’ll do mini stair climber things on our stair case, and step aerobics on the bottom step. I’ll chase the munchkin around the yard.

Just cutting out soda is a big help with losing weight because of all the sugar and junk that’s in there. When I really started studying labels on things I was so surprised as to everything that I’ve been putting in my body. The caffeine reduction has been taking it’s toll on my mood, but I’ve found that lying in the yard for a few minutes really helps me to center and get back in the proper frame of mind to continue the day.

Given today is the celebration of Earth Hour, people are being encouraged to turn their lights OFF during the hours of 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. to conserve energy and show awareness of global conservation efforts.

I’m reading their site right now to see what things I can do to help conserve energy. Before we moved I’d begun switching out all our bulbs to energy efficient ones, but there are all kinds of little things which can be done around the house, very simply in order to help conserve energy.

I was talking with a friend about a long lasting bout of tonsillitis that’s been affecting a member of my family and she suggested that it was being affected by unsaid words regarding a conflict that had been going on for a while, and I realized that the tonsillitis started right around the time the conflict first started and suddenly things clicked. We’re working on resolving the unsaid words issue and we’ll see how it helps the person’s health.

It’s strange to me that I wouldn’t have thought of things like this, because when I was trying to find ways to treat my fibromyalgia I decided to go the esoteric route after months of treating it with various medications didn’t work and resolving some things hypnotically did help me to heal up my symptoms for over a year.

I should note though that while I talk about resolving health issues with esoteric means this is only after going for more modern means first and with the blessing of my primary care provider.