out for Carin and the boys. I hope that it continues to do that for the long haul.

I think that our habits at home keep us from walking/exercising more than anything. Pick a time and try to do it every day for a few weeks, even if you have to do an indoor walking video. After a time, it will become a habit that screams at you if you miss it. If you don't have a pedometer or a fitness watch, get one. It doesn't have to be expensive or fancy. Just something that will link to your phone, preferably. Make a game out of increasing your steps by a few a day. It becomes addictive if you have any competitive spirit at all.

As far as the food, some of it is habit, but I keep hearing lately that it also has a lot ot do with our gut biome. They say that after just three days of fasting that we can break the cycle of automatically reaching for sugar/high-carb foods. I don't know if that is true, but I do know that when I didn't eat for about two weeks, I was in a coma most of that time, I didn't crave food, and when I started eating, I was not given sweets or much in the way of high carbs. I eventually tried sweets, because I was going through something that my brain kept telling me that it would be easier with sugar, but the usual treats tasted awful. I still thought I had to eat them because of the habit, so I kept at it until I liked the taste again. How stupid is that?