In a newsletter from my fitness center, she broke it down into something simple: 30 minutes of exercise a day. She made it sound even more doable by breaking those 30 minutes down into 10 minute increments, "for example, a 10-minute walk in the morning, 10 minutes of climbing stairs in the afternoon and another 10-minute walk after dinner."

I think I should buy a jumprope so I can do quick ten-minute cardio chunks. I read in some magazine about Madonna or someone famous and healthy (because of course, they have the money to be healthy and yes, I do believe physical health is easier to attain if you're rich which I am not) jumping rope. The article pointed out how jumproping is inexpensive and handy.

I felt like I lost weight over our Thanksgiving vacation, but in fact, I still weigh 119 pounds which is exactly where I started weeks ago when I made a silly goal to get down to 107 by the beginning of January. Bah!

Anyway -- I'll try to get 30 minutes in every day then, okay?

Today I got 12 minutes on the elliptical, and then spent an hour in Pilates (but I only actually did about two thirds of the stuff -- I was hungry, shaking, and spent). I tried the stairmaster but there is something completely counterintuitive about those machines -- I had to get off of it. So I'd say I got 50 minutes of exercise today.

Over vacation I bought an instructional stretching dvd. My body has been feeling completely fucked up.