I said the other day that I was going to start back logging my food at Sparkpeople.com ….and I started to do just that. Really, I did. I think I logged my lunch yesterday and that was it in the last two days. Dudes, I’m just not there yet. My head is not ‘back in the game’. I can feel myself mentally getting closer, though. And I think I’m getting closer in terms of the amount of food I’m eating, as well. I need to get back on the Getting Healthier Train. Man, it feels amazing when I do. The mental, spiritual, emotional pick-me-up from doing so is a total kick! And my business (all of the various stuff that I do online) is doing better, so coupling that with making a new commitment to myself would ROCK!

Oh – you know what I should do? I was involved in a challenge on Sparkpeople. I failed when I gained weight one of the weeks. They still let you stay ‘in’ – you just log your weight every Monday in a different spot from the people still ‘in the game’. So you are still challenging yourself, working towards your own personal goals – they didn’t just boot me out on my tuckus, so that’s cool. And they do other challenges within the challenge that I can still participate in. Anyhoo – one of those mini-challenges early on was to join a site called HabitForge.com and set up a habit that you wanted to work on – a certain thing that you wanted to become a habit.

I’ve gotten out of the habit of hitting my knees every morning and night – so I set my first challenge up as ‘hitting my knees every morning’. They send you a daily email to ask you if you ‘did your habit’ the previous day. So I just had the idea that maybe I could piggy back Sparkpeople and HabitForge – just to get me back in the groove. I’ll set up a habit in there of ‘logging food into Sparkpeople for the whole day’. I don’t know if you can have more than one habit at once, though. Well, I’ll just set up another account with another email if not.

Hang on a sec…. gonna go do it right now…. in the middle of this post….. Ok, I’m back! You can have multiple habits. I set this one as ‘logging food at Sparkpeople.com”. Awesome! I’m going to get back on track!! I already feel that old familiar excitement about doing right by myself food-wise. It’s kind of a little rush, you know?

The other thing I’d been having trouble with is exercising, because of this stoopid broken foot! I had started doing some exercise videos and walking with Puppy again, I had even bought an exercise ball, kind of like this bender ball. And then I broke my durn foot. Chair – meet foot. Foot – meet chair. Urgh. I’ve been trying to ‘concoct exercises that I can still do in my …uh… slightly debilitated state. I’ve come up with a few, not a whole lot of cardio stuff, though.

Tonight after driving my daughter fifty miles, round trip, to the orthodontist – with my foot achy, tired, and sore – I thought of a way that I could actually exercise my legs! Why with my foot hurting I thought of it, I’ll never know. I don’t know how much cardio it will be, but, I can lie on my back and do bicycle ‘pedaling’ in the air. Cool, right? I’m excited I thought of it and I’m going to try it tomorrow.

I’d already thought of push ups and something else…hmm… I’ll remember tomorrow! And of course I can do sit ups and supermans and anything on the floor pretty much. I had told a personal trainer friend of mine that I’d wiggle around in my office chair – kind of dancing, twisting – whatever I could do! But when I tried it, I needed my goofy foot for balance and sort of ‘lift off’ so that didn’t work out very well.

I have rambled on far too long tonight – we’ll see if I can’t get my crazy self BACK IN THE GAME tomorrow! Wish me luck!

Ahhhh… Twitter in the morning! What’s not to love? I personally love Twitter in the morning – it is my all time favorite Twitter time! I have so much fun talking with people and getting our days started together. This morning, while I was schmoozing on Twitter, I happened to go check my Google Adsense earnings from yesterday. Whoa! They were a’ pumpin’!! And I do mean PUMPIN’! Yes sir – on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 – I made a whoppin’

ONE CENT!

I’m swimmin’ in it now, ya’ll! And I was so excited that I just had to share the news with all my Twitter buds, of course! It went something like this:

@LisaMarieMary DUDES!! I made ONE CENT yesterday in Adsense! I’m rich! I’m rich! Want me to to take you out to lunch??

@DB Ferguson Whoo hoo! Now Grandma can have her operation!

@LisaMarieMary I know!!! Isn’t it just wonderful??

And it also went like this:
@TraciKnoppe Congrats!! Sure you can take me out to lunch! What time will your limo be here to get me?

@LisaMarieMary Be ready by 11:30 wearing nothing but your best – u KNOW we’re going someplace *EXPENSIVE*!!!!

@TraciKnoppe Squee!! Does the meal come with a surprise inside.

@LisaMarieMary Why sure baby – a diamond ring, but, of course!!!

So funny, right? Then this afternoon, I head over to my Gmail to check my emails and what do I see? I see this:

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From: Google Adsense Subject: Gain insight into your AdSense revenue with Analytics reports

Hi,

Could you be earning more from your AdSense for content ads?
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BWAHAHAHA! Classic! No, no really, I’m just fine. I’m totally happy with the exorbitant amount of income I’m making from Adsense! Thanks for the offer to help, though!

On my Naturally Lisa blog, I have a post I wrote about my headaches, Icepick Headache, and I recently received the loveliest comment spam on that post. It was so lovely, in fact, that I had to pop in here and share it with you:

I inclination not acquiesce in on it. I over warm-hearted post. Especially the title-deed attracted me to review the whole story.

Um …yeah. Read it. Then read it again. Then read it aloud. You will laugh more every time.

I get a lot of ‘it’s oh so obvious you’re just comment spamming me’ comments on my blogger blogs. If they have left a reasonable comment and their link is not for a questionable site – I will generally leave it.

That one got zapped by my magic delete key!

Ha!

It seems I’ve gotten myself into a little bit of chocolate trouble. Or a lot, perhaps, depending on your viewpoint. I was choosing healthy food to eat, I was logging my daily intake of food at Sparkpeople.com and I was doing well. Then I went to Nashville for a conference with a friend and we indulged ourselves. It was quite fun, actually. We had a blast!

Ever since then, though, I’ve been having trouble getting back on track, getting my head ‘back in the game’, if you will. I want Peanut M&M’s every day. And I have been obliging myself. It’s ridiculous. I don’t think there are any shapely secrets hidden in that bag of M&M’s. Well, that is, unless – you want to count the shape ’round’. And I’m really rather tired of that shape.

But you know – actually, I was eating M&M’s prior to going to Nashville. I was just being a lot smarter about it. I was only buying the regular size bag – not the extra large or super size or whatever it’s called. And I was dividing it up into two snacks – and that was totally fitting in my calorie count for the day. Now, though, I’m buying the large and I am absolutely having trouble not eating the whole bag at once. And the large bag has a LOT more calories in it!! It hardly counts for a ’snack’ when it is taking up a whole meal’s worth of points!! Or calories, as it were.

I’m getting really sick of being such an M&M drunk’! I so hope I’m ready to give it up soon. I tell you what, blog readers, I’m going to promise to you, right now, that tomorrow – I will go log my food at Sparkpeople. No matter what I eat – I’ll take responsibility for it in black and white on my Sparkpeople profile.

And now I’m going to take my full tummy (full on dinner, but, it was too high in calories, too) and go to bed. Goodnight – thanks for reading my whining!

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