Scratch that.

So the number on the scale has gone up but not by much. That means today starts a new day of my journey to a lower weight.

But onto other news...

Bodies:

We went to Georgia this weekend (I'll get more in this in a bit) and Greg saw a poster for this Bodies exhibit. These bodies were real. They have been preserved in a way to show the insides clearly. You went from room to room going through the skeleton, then the muscles, then the central nervous system, then it went into cancers and obesity. Even though this seems to be a gross subject, I thought it was tastefully done and they had facts about our bodies as you walk along from one room to the next. I saw parents expaining things to thier kids and teaching them as they went. This was done in China by medical students and all of the "patients" had died within the last 10 years. They obviously donated thier bodies to this or to science in general.

Seeing how things truly affect the body (such as fat deposits on an obese person or lung cancer from cigarette smoke) really makes you think twice about what you decide to put into it or do with it. I told mom that it did make me want to keep trying to lose weight. It was definately a motivation of sorts.

I will say that if you're sensitive about a certain topic it may not be for you. But its a great educational exhibit and reaches you more than a plastic skeleton or plastic organs would in a doctors office. Something like this would do very well here where I work (at NIH). I think many people here would appreciate something like this as we are all working and supporting a place filled with scientists who are helping to find cures and heal the sick.

There are a few pictures on the website. Click here
if your interested. Maybe it will come up here.