Almost ready to shrink

Today, I too started the Transitions program. I started out with coffee ( gee, that pre-coffee bitchiness must be inherited because I have it too!)and a new flavor of Nutrition bars - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. They were hefty and chewy and pretty good, so I will see that sister Bonnie gets a box. My Transistion supplements are back in FL, so I will start them when I get back on the 8th of Jan. Tomorrow I will start the day with a shake. I have found that making a shake the night before and keeping it in the fridge makes for a smoother creamier shake the next morning.
I had some cheese and whole wheat crackers at lunch, and we're doing our traditional Pennsylvania Dutch New years day dinner of pork, saurkraut, Cope's dried corn and - horrors - mashed potatoes. Well, it is a holiday, and I promise to be better the rest of 2009.
Actually, keepingup with a low glycemic diet is not bad, as there are lots of foods we never thought we could eat on a "diet"- the whole key is not to go overboard. Sister Bonnie and I share the same dieting malady - family. We cook for others, and eat for others. Now that kids are gone, we only have husband's appetites to contend with and it gets a bit easier, I hope, for our sakes.
Like Bonnie, I'm just tired of being the biggest kid on the block. I just turned 60 and figure I have 20 good years if I'm lucky, and want them to be healthy ones.
I've got the back and a sleeve done from a pattern from a Japanese knitting book that Bonnie gave me as a Christmas gift. All the instructions are in Japanese, but they are all in row by row knitting symbols, which, once you get used to them, are much easier and more precise to follow than the vague " knit for 16 inches" of english instructions. I'll put some photos up once I get a bit more done.