Howdy! Bad news is I had to go to the doctor a couple more times to start getting some pain relief. Good news is I did get some pain relief finally and also every time I had to step on the scale (unfortunate that this is a requirement) it was a little lower. I finally replaced my scale and I am happy to report I lost five pounds since last Friday and I’m feeling less sluggish already! I’m going to wait until I am a little better before starting back on more serious exercise but this is what helped me this week. I didn’t tell myself “no”, but I said “not yet, wait for Sunday”. And then more often than not, the temptation to eat something unhealthy passed. Or, if I did eat something not so healthy (like a mocha from Starbucks) I said “nope, you’ve already had a treat today.” Those little things helped. Also, an incentive was eating better helped my inflammation. I don’t want to have heart problems or back problems or things that are the result of ...