K, my son is a Zen Buddhist, and he has a great little analogy that he busted out one time when I complained about my darned busy busy mind while meditating: He said "Think of your mind like a bicycle upside down with its wheels in the air. Your thoughts are the wheels. In meditation, the goal is to have the wheels perfectly still. But the reality is that from time to time the wind is going to blow, gently or a little harder, and make the wheels spin. Don't worry about the wind. Let it blow on through. Just don't grab the wheels and spin them yourself!" I love that picture and it's really helped me.
I did three sessions with Trainer Dave this week and on the one hand it was great, but on the other hand I can see it's going to be quite a while before I'm back where I was pre-surgery. Patience. Gah. Not one of my best qualities! Rumor has it there's a gym in my apartment building, so this week my goal is to find it and put in some treadmill or recumbent bike time between trainer sessions.
My tap class fell through because the friend who was going to do it with me (it was really a semi-private lesson with just the two of us) flaked out. I was disappointed but honestly not all that surprised. There's another friend who was doing it with us and she will be available again after the first of the year, so I guess I'll just wait until then.
Food was better. Scale still bouncing around in the 122 range. At some point I will buckle down but I'm not necessarily feeling it right at this exact moment. I think I still have some swelling that is keeping the number a little artificially inflated.
And finally, I went to a charity fundraiser at a bowling alley last night and bowled two games and lived to tell the tale! Don't know if my surgeon would approve, but I had a blast!
Wow, this turned into a novel! Sorry! Have a good week, everyone!
ETA: Mo, has your BF been to a neurologist? Life is too short to suffer like that, and my neurologist changed my life in a matter of weeks!!
