Feeling I'm mostly better from the strep No more fever at least, but the diarrhea from the antibiotic is not fun, and I have to keep downing fluids to not get dehydrated.

I dread all the weight loss stuff for the new year, with the ED. Everyone is on a diet. Calories, amount of exercise, weight lost, actual weight, wanting to lose weight, calories, foods start dominating my FB feed, but I have 1 sister who only updates on FB and she is the mother of my 2 nephews, so I like reading what's going on with her & her family, especially the boys. New years and diet stuff constant while watching live TV, and I like to watch Discovery ID live because I like the shows but not so much to DVR them. Often, I will play a tablet game that requires minimal attention while listening and sometimes watching the TV. Mostly, I listen it. I like shows that have more narration I've found because of just being able to listen a lot. Diets galore on women's magazines. Well, that's pretty much year round but more prominent this time of year; you cannot buy a women's magazine without weight loss tips in it; even cooking magazines tend to have low fat/lower calorie versions of recipes somewhere in the magazine. I guess maybe if I looked at a boring one about gardening or something, but I don't know. I tend to pick up back issues of magazines at the library, where the Friends of the Library sell used books, DVDs, puzzles to raise money for the library; usually the magazines are free or 25 cents a piece.

And who knows what member of my family will decide to diet? At least one usually does: the sister posting on Facebook (though she cannot exercise too much because of recent knee surgery), my mother, one of my aunts & her husband. One or all tend to resolve to lose weight, especially my mom & this one aunt because the aunt lives next to my grandmother (their mom), and my mom does a lot of shuttling and care for my grandmother now.

Hugs to all needing them