Trying to restart my exercise program

Now that cancer is receding farther and farther in the rear view mirror (thank goodness), I am trying to reevaluate things and muster up the effort to reshape my life closer to where it should be.

I have started studying French again. I've had about a month of Duolingo lessons (well, I missed one day. But my current streak is twelve days long, and the streak before that was nineteen days).

A bigger deal: I am trying to start getting active again. I have to. I am at my all time highest weight (due to some medication I've been on), which is still below the national average for women my age and height, but I feel uncomfortably heavy, and I've been thinking about reasons I want to resume exercise. Anti-depression effect. Graceful aging. And just feeling good about myself. I can't do karate anymore, and my go-to exercise for years, exercise DVDs, isn't very easy, as we don't have a computer with a DVD drive in a room set up for exercise. English country dancing is fun, but it's just two hours a week.

I've gone out for several walks. Tonight I made it a walk/jog.

It's tough, I'm not going to lie.

I just have to think of long term rewards.

And ice cream is nice, but I really don't have to have it EVERY NIGHT.

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