Progress is slow

I started the day with a vigorous one-mile walk around the track and hopped on the elliptical machine for another mile or so, but no bicycle today. Don't want to overdo as I'm still fighting this cold.
All-in-all, though, it felt pretty good and the electronic scales at the gym said I lost a pound since Monday, even if the scales at home seemed stuck for all this week.
I have been told some people shouldn't check the scales every day because a person's weight can vary naturally from day to day. It's the week-to-week weight that counts. So I'm down from last week.
But in case anyone didn't figure it out, this is hard. While I'm not necessarily developing the routine that I hoped, I am at least thinking about exercise every day – and trying to think about it in the morning before it's too late to start early or think about it in the evening to plan an early start. I am also resisting the urge to just say, on any given day, “Gee, I wish I would have found time to exercise, but now it may be too late.”
Yesterday was one of those days. But at the risk being called an excuse-maker, I wasn't sure early in the day how much I should do after my crappy Tuesday. I did get a little buoyed by the good news from Laurel Auto Group's addition of a new dealership, two vehicle lines and up to 20 jobs.
I am also working hard on portion control and avoiding fats. But they taste so good! Becky’s homemade vegetable soup has been getting me through the past couple days.
Today's workday started with an inspiring interview that will actually be part of next week's American Heart Month project for The Tribune-Democrat. Tom Papinchak of Windber has been working on his heart health since his first heart attack at age 51 in 1984. Since then he's had a stent, a quadruple bypass and, last year, a heart transplant. He he says he owes his life to 25 years of cardiac rehab.
So if the rehab was working so well for him? How come he still needed the bypass, stent and transplant? I have the answer but I'm saving it for next week's package on cardiac rehabilitation.
This week's package of stories to be published in Sunday's editions of The Tribune-Democrat will focus on heart procedures: What they are, how they help, what the risks are and who are good candidates. I've got another patient story and a story about a local research project to help patients during recovery following surgery.