Sometimes the signs are just there

 Gratitude For Five Wonderful Things Yesterday

1. Teachers/Instructors 

(the people that put together the garage bands got me started thinking on this line but then it went into thinking of any... at the gym, school, crafts/arts and on)

2. Rain 

(sounds silly but the sound of the rain was so peaceful after a long winter)

3. The chicken gumbo soup 

(it was made for me, and it was delicious)

4. Music 

(yesterday was my son's concert and in the evening there was a Chris Botti concert on tv) 

5. New sheets 

(so soft and cuddly) 

Have to admit the above was started because Sunday weigh in this morning had set the wheels in motion for a down day.  The lack of real losses so far this year brings thoughts and emotions that IT will never happen.  That at best just staying where it is, is the future.  Not the future I want at all.  The television and computer were both starting up.  The television was still set to the public station and on it was a program with a doctor talking about the brain.  He was showing scans of two brains one with positive and  one with negative thoughts.   Needless to say the positive thought brain was the one you would want working in the skull.  He gave the practice of each day thinking of five things you were grateful for or happy of and meditating on them for five minutes or so each morning.  That is probably not new to me.  Heard it before in similar forms but seeing the scans and feeling the way  I was at the time just seemed to click.  Just do it!  The scale is not the be all and end all of the universe.  It should not darken the rest of my thoughts.  So besides monitoring the food, exercise and numbers, the good things are going in also.  Each day be they big or small they will be part of the program (putting it on the side bar so I do do it).  

Side note This coming week STRONG cardio every day!