Hypo this morning, I think. Had a little less sleep last night. Vacuumed the living room & washed the futon cover (a pain, but my daughter always gets bits of food all over it). I went for a run that turned out to be 8.4 miles. If I'd taken my morning meds, no telling, I might have run farther or perhaps the Lamictal would have helped, and I would have run less. I need to gain weight but don't want to. It's always hard when advertising for weight loss is always in your face. You can't pick up a women's magazine without something about losing weight unless it is entirely made up of recipes (and even then, they will usually have low-fat adaptations of recipes). The radio stations I listen to play weight loss ads all the time. And it's still on TV even if it's not New Year's and summer has already started. You just don't get away from it. Sometimes, it makes me feel like not eating, but I force myself, and I always have lunch and dinner because we always eat those meals as a family until my husband & daughter are in school.

I cleaned a ton in my office yesterday and am proud of how nice it looks now even though I still have some work left . Hopefully, today, I can start the book for my book club, which is meeting next Monday. I'm having trouble with concentration. I've been trying to finish one book for several weeks now, and it's by an author I like (sigh). I'm taking my daughter to a STEM camp at a local university (luckily, a branch of the University of Houston closer to NASA, much easier to drive to than the main campus). It's still a bit of a drive though, so I will probably be waiting out the 3 hours of her camp in the area. There are a few stores nearby (but that could be dangerous though one of the stores is a dollar store, and I do need a new spatula, so perhaps, I will look there), a Starbucks nearby (I have a gift card with money on it) , and hopefully, i will give me time to devote to my book club book. Her camp goes today through Thursday from 12-3 each day.

Is it normal to lose concentration so much when hypo? I can read one paragraph again & again in a book before soaking it up, which is frustrating as reading is one of my favorite hobbies.

I am excited about my cleaned office though. After I vacuum in there, I will be able to work on jigsaw puzzles again, something I love to do and something my daughter likes to do as well. I will finally have the room. Because of our cats, we cannot leave a puzzle out in a room without a door to close.