Writing and weight. What else is new?

I had a pretty productive novel-writing session this morning, which is a darn good thing, seeing as how I haven't touched it in the last five days. The chapter I left off on Wednesday took a surprising and much-more-interesting-than-planned turn when I picked it up today. I love it when that happens. That's the sort of stuff that makes writing fun. I also finally wrote dialogue for a scene much later in the book that's been floating in my head for, oh, say, a couple of years now. Felt good to get that down, even though there's an excellent chance that by the time I reach the point where it fits, I'll either come up with something different or it will have otherwise been rendered irrelevant. Still, it's written for now, and I like it.

This Weight Watchers thing is, dare I say, going well, although it's only day 2 and really too soon to say. So far, though, it's keeping me on track well enough to consider shelling out the fee to keep my membership. I like that I can combine it pretty seamlessly with the Zone, since the Zone is more about the type of foods you eat and WW is more about portion control and motivation. What I'm finding really great about WW that I didn't anticipate is how you can earn more points with exercise, so it's basically dangling a slice of carrot cake in front of my face to get me to move. I'm ashamed to say how well that's working on me, but it is. So far.

I jacked my back up pretty good last night. It felt fine until I went to bed, but once I lay down it was pain, pain and nothing but pain. I'm surprised I was even able to sleep. This morning it felt a little better, but it kept spazzing and going out on me. So at the gym I spent a lot of my time doing the stretches and back strengthening exercises that my chiropractor gave me once upon a time when I could afford a chiropractor. Those helped a lot. I also got in about 10 minutes of power walking on the treadmill and about 20 minutes of Pilates and more stretching, and today I actually left the gym feeling good, unlike yesterday when I walked out of there fearing I might pass out in the parking lot. Overdoing your workout is BAD, kids, mmm'kay?

Otherwise, today has been pretty busy on the job front, so I haven't gotten around to the other writing and blogging I hoped to do today. Maybe I can squeeze something in before quitting time, although I really should do some filing and work on cleaning off my desk. I also need to add up my receipts from the weekend and see how much we have left in the grocery fund before I go stock up on more Zone-friendly foods.

Yessiree, we're back in that daily grind.