Yesterday, I started the New Year off with a water aerobics class. It was nice, yet tough. Three-fourths of the way through the class, I started to wonder if I’d be able to climb the steps to get out of the pool with my bad knees. I made it, but it was awkward and there were people looking. I came home and iced my knees to try to offset any major arthritic flare-up. I’m not nearly as sore today as I expected to be, although I did take the exercises easy to prevent pain later.

This week, I’m planning to eat the same meals each day to minimize uncertainty that would enhance the risk of cheating. For breakfast, I had plain oatmeal with nothing in it, for lunch two eggs on Dave’s Killer Bread, and for dinner see the picture above. I cooked the chicken in the air fryer and the veggies in the oven. Since it was New Year’s Day, I threw in a half cup of black-eyed peas. A banana was my only snack.

I did a WW workshop. My plan is to do 90 workshops in 90 days to stay connected with the plan and to get new ideas for meals. Some of them are exercise workshops.

I like to weigh every day. It may not be the recommended way, but it keeps me on top of what’s going on – and sometimes depressed if it’s not going my way. I’m down 1.2 pounds since yesterday. It may be water weight, but whatever. I did drink a good bit of water as well.

A month or so ago, I bought a vibration plate to use for my knees. I’ve heard they are good for weight loss. If that’s true then it will be a plus. I’m using it twice a day for 15 minutes. It does help to lessen the knee pain. I’m moving around and going out more since using it. I had stopped leaving the house much because of the pain, but I’m out and about again, so the vibration plate and ice have helped my quality of life.

All in all, yesterday was quite successful.