Happy New Year !

I have tried counting calories before, and I have exercised off and on. Yet, I gained steadily all the adult years of my life. I only gained a pound here and there, but it has added up. Still, I am in good health and grateful that my body has handled the excess load well so far.

Yet, I go into this new year knowing it could be a lot worse. I would probably be a whole lot heavier if it had not been for years of on-again, off-again efforts to control my eating and improve my exercise. I hope my fellow travelers on this journey will see their own on-and-off efforts at any kind of self-improvement in a similar light -- you could have done a lot worse, so give yourself a pat on the back.