Plugging away almost as good as pounding away

Ellyn Ritterskamp

I am not pounding away, as I have gotten one of this year's two scheduled colds. I used to get one a year until I had my tonsils out, now two.

But I am plugging away, still counting calories, and losing very small amounts each weigh-in (about 2 per week). Today: 248.4, from January's starting point of 257. It's all happened in the past 9 weeks on the My Fitness Pal website, in which I enter everything I eat and stop when I get to 2000 calories. At some point we will lower that target.

So, likely no long walk today, with the sniffles, but just a short one. Saving my strength for the half-marathon in a few weeks.

Onward.