Day 1 Yet Again

Who knew that I would wake up one morning and say, "I'll create a blog"?

It's a typical day for me.  When I can sleep in, I rise at 7 a.m. but when I have to go to work, I snooze my iPhone alarm and turn over to sleep some more. Today, I sat at my computer and started my blog.  It took me 15 minutes to come up with the title "Life and Laughter with JDL", then another 10 trying to find a blog URL that wasn't taken.  After almost 30 minutes, "Here I am!"  I hope that I have something to say and that it's worthwhile to read. My life experiences are many, happy, tragic, and simply what you face as you grow older and hopefully wiser.

My challenge today is to start my diet over yet again.  I can't count how many times I've recorded "Day 1" on my planner.  Breakfast is easy, lunch is so-so, but the kicker is dinner and late night snacking.  My goal is to eat cleaner.  For me that means more organic foods where possible and less meat.  With a 17 year old son whose favorite food is meat, I'm not going vegan any time soon, but I can try to purchase hormone free meats to cook.

Some insight into my struggle: I was raised by my grandparents and we didn't have a lot of money.  When reminiscing, I joke that we were so poor that we could only afford half the letters so that made us "po". Growing up "po" you ate everything on your plate.  My son doesn't have the same food experiences so when he's full he stops eating.  Me on the other hand, I think I have to finish my plate.

Day 1 of my blog and "yet again" diet. Off to see what the day holds for me.