I’m sick of coughing like a smoker! It’s getting better, but both of us are STILL coughing up remnants of our flu. Gonna skip next year’s flu shot. Why get one just to have flu-like symptoms the next day and then actually get the damn flu for real?

Unlike the last two days, I’m a lot less hungry as chicken definitely curbs hunger much better than pasta does. I have to remember to have more protein but stay away from meats high in cholesterol. I read that women do get hungrier with age as they lose estrogen. It’s a good thing I prefer meat to pasta then.

I don’t always bother to log my food on Fitbit since I’m not only not going to lose weight, but some things are hard to measure accurately. If I grab a pinch of sunflower seeds to sprinkle on my yogurt, it’s hard to say exactly how many calories that is. I suppose I could put more effort into measuring calories, but I really don’t want to bother.

Fitbit is amazing and the clubhouse ladies are wowed by it, too. It knows when I’m walking vs. doing aerobics, something I still can’t get used to. Didn’t know I’d be in for a crash course in dancing yesterday, too. LOL, yeah, Janice is eager to make a dancer out of me (other than the VERY different and less intricate kind I used to do), and took me aside after exercise class to demonstrate the Electric Slide and the Texas Waltz.

Afterward, Shirley, Claire and a few others wanted me to join them for coffee, something they traditionally do on Wednesdays, but I declined, wanting to limit my caffeine to one cup a day and that’s when I first get up.

Just as I was going to leave, it started pouring again. I made the comment to Janice that I told my husband on Skype this would happen to me, and she offered to drive me home, which was very nice of her, though the cold rain wouldn’t have killed me because I bundled up in the ski jacket I used to wear up in Oregon.

She knows Bob and Virginia really well and I guess Virginia used to attend the workouts.

Sure enough, as soon as we left the clubhouse, the rain eased up, and as soon as I jumped out of her car and into the house, out popped the sun.

I was going to skip class today to give my muscles a break. Since working on the Bowflex Tom can really see a difference, especially in my abs and lower back. I’m growing muscles I forgot I had since we haven’t owned a Bowflex in over a decade. I forget just how much pain bodybuilders go through, though it’s in a good way. I’ve probably gained 2-3 pounds in muscle. Decided not to skip, though, as I thought I felt those “butterflies” start to kick up and that it’d do me good to get out.

As I explained to Tammy, Stacey’s help along with the Lexapro resetting my brain’s serotonin to stop sending false signals telling me to be scared of absolutely nothing at all isn’t 100% foolproof. I still have Hashimoto’s and I’m still perimenopausing which means the anxiety is going to come and go.

Today we worked out to a video which got a little tricky for me at times. Again, I’m not used to aerobics.

Then Evie asked for my number and gave me hers, saying that they sometimes cancel class and all that. Yeah, but I’ll be hit or miss anyway, as I told her. They know we’re going on vacation in a couple of weeks, too. She said they also do prayer and of course there’s the line dancing they’ll never get me interested in. I prefer simple workouts. Not dancing. I’m athletic and muscular. Not skinny and graceful.

As for the prayer thing… I don’t know if there’s a God, but I know I don’t believe in prayer. If prayer couldn’t help those about to be killed by terrorists, why would it help little old me?

Okay, who’s talking? Amazon Echo? My phone? My laptop? My Tablet? My Fitbit? Somebody just said something somewhere. sighs Nothing like having so many devices you can’t keep track of what’s doing what!

We’re looking so forward to the trip. I can’t wait! We decided we don’t feel comfortable leaving the Caddy at the airport, so we’re probably going to go by Uber. We could ask next door, but that’d be a huge inconvenience for them that we don’t want to bother them with.

I’ve been up 7 hours and so far I’ve walked 7103 steps, traveled 2.75 miles, burned 938 calories, and my current heart rate is 86.