new shoes!

In my endeavor to lose weight I bought a pair of Skecher Shape Ups. I have been a fan of Earth shoes for the last 4 years and they are similar, in the Earth shoe the front of the shoe is higher than the heel so you are slanted up hill as you walk. I worked in a hospital running charts around all day, sometimes 7 miles in a day, I would recommend the Earth shoes to anyone. I thought I would give the Skecher Shape Ups a try, and after a week of wearing them I have to say I do like them. An added bonus for me is that they make me taller, and I am all for anything that adds an inch or two. I was at the Monroe Hospital gift shop the other day and a lady that worked there came up to me and asked about my shoes and said the first thing she noticed when I came in was my posture, how straight I stood. She was very impressed with that. I thanked her as no one has ever commented on my posture before, so the shoes must be doing something right. A word of warning, I have heard others say that if you have bad knees or osteoporosis that these are not the shoes for you.
I ran out of pop yesterday (oh the horror!!!) and maybe this is the time for me to try to stop drinking so much of it. I drank about 8 cans a day, sometimes more. I love my pop, but from all I have read it bloats you, and the diet, which is what I have drank for years, is not all that safe. I will see if cutting out pop helps with the headaches and tiredness that I have. I am not sure I can stop all together, but I am going to try.
Well the sun is shinning today and I have a lot of yard work to keep me busy. We have had rain for three days and I am ready to get back outside. I like to look at this yard work as my exercise, and the reward is a soak in the tub at the end of the day.