This week, my six food groups consisted of:

- midnight snacks;

- ballpark weinies and meat on the grill; 

- potatoes and pasta (not together, but they both have carbs);

- sandwiches (preferably chicken salad);

- delicious restaurant fare;

- and Jell-O.

Mmmmm! Good eating this week. I'm not sure that it'll help my weight much, but a heavier me might pack more punch on the softball field. Who knows? 

Man, I feel old.

I never remember my dreams unless they are really good, really bad, or important enough to tell someone. So that's why I'm telling you about this one.

One day last week, I woke up excited about an exceptional interest rate that I got. That makes me feel old, because interest rates really do lack excitement, even more so for a young person. 

Other things that I've realized that make me feel old:

- Four years ago, I messed up my checkbook to the tune of having an extra $1,000. My only purchase: a lawnmower.

Working out isn't really a struggle for me anymore. It's a daily habit.

Since I joined Anytime Fitness in Jordan, I switched from weightlifting, basketball, and situps to doing all of that plus the elliptical. I've been losing weight and feeling better than before. I knew I would.

But I didn't really know how well I was doing until, during Celebrate Jordan, Jo Erp of Jo's Gym in Jordan gave me the results of a body composition analysis. 

Flipping through channels while doing the elliptical this morning at the gym, I happened upon the opening-day baseball game.

And my favorite player, David Ortiz, was up to bat. What luck! 

It was a nice surprise, since I hadn't remembered that today was opening day for the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics in Japan. Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Red Sox were losing 2-0 to Joe Blanton and the A's when I was off to do sit-ups and wrist curls.

... intense workout today, huh? Well, I have lost 10 pounds or so in the last month.

I heard this on the radio last week: "There's a reason you're fat -- you want to be."

Scott County Public Health recently ran a children's poster contest focused on maintaining a healthy weight. 

Hard-working, fun-loving staff writer Brandon Otte and I have had an ongoing discussion (read: stubborn disagreement) about hotdish. He says it's casserole. We need your help to decide.

Why not make a regular online habit of checking the topics of the day in the Forums section of this Web site?

The Webmaster for www.jordannews.com is constantly tweaking and changing things to make it easier for you to find news, to have discussions, and to have fun on this Web site.

Meg Jeffery's sister, Erin O'Brien-Denton, made a series of exercise videos revolving around pregnancy -- prenatal and postnatal.

I ate breakfast today. This isn’t exactly earth-shattering news, I know, but it marks a big change for me.

I usually eat about one meal a day, and it ends up being much too large a meal. My family and I decided to start a "Biggest Loser" competition – where the person who loses the most weight in 2007 is the big winner. (You can read about a Shakopee resident who was part of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" reality show in the Jan. 4 edition of the Shakopee Valley News). The competition started in January, and my goal is to drop about 50 pounds by the end of the year. I intend to win whatever it is my sister and I come up with as our top prize. I also intend to win some of the monthly gift certificate prizes.