A Good Year in Provence - The Provence of Peter Mayle

My blog is supposed to be about my thoughts when I'm walking because I hate walking, or any exercise, and I thought by purposely thinking about things as I walked, and then blogging those thoughts, it might make it more agreeable. It hasn't. Anyway, we are planning a trip to Europe in spring 2008 and I just watched the movie "A Good Year" with Russell Crowe. Although it was panned by the critics, I thought it was a wonderful movie and fell in love with Provence, France. I wrote down all the names of the locations for the movie, and then found this perfect website about all those various locations. I didn't know I could add it to my blog, but did, and here it is. It doesn't fit here under this theme, but it's okay.

As far as the weight loss, I noticed that my last entry was August 5. It's now September 6, one month later, and I now weigh 127 1/2. I'm up a couple of pounds and I'll have to keep an eye on it now. We've begun eating out again and when we do that, I gain weight. So does Bob. The exercise doesn't seem to make much difference when it comes to losing weight. Bob golfs 3-4 times a week and it doesn't help him lose any weight. He's not walking the course, but I've ridden with him and he clocks several miles just walking to and from the cart and bending over to pick up balls and clubs from the ground. When I was walking religiously, I could walk 5 miles a day and never lose weight if I didn't also restrict my eating. It's a very sad thing. Eating is one of the great pleasures of my life and I have never been totally successful in not thinking about it, like I suppose permanently skinny people do. I think about eating all day long. I'm drinking a lot of coffee these days, and chewing fat free gum (which is a joy - NOT) to try to ward off the urge to eat. Sometimes I'm successful, but mostly it's just agony.


A Good Year in Provence - The Provence of Peter Mayle