A Narrow Margin of Failure

So after I don't know what, maybe a couple of weeks of having canned fish & rice crackers for lunch instead of hummus & corn chips, I'm seeing two results. First, I'm something like three & a half pounds lighter. Second, that's apparently just enough for me to suddenly be able to do one-legged squats on my left as well as my right. Up to now every time we've done those in my Monday gym class, I've only been able to stand back up on my right leg. When I tried with the left I ended up just sitting there & pulling faces as I tried to rise. Makes sense; dominant hand, dominant leg & boy howdy am I right handed.

The whole fish thing started after I had my yearly blood work done & my HDL was so low it made the PA's eyes pop. "Eat more nuts & walk farther," she said. My wife suggested eating certain fish too (she's a PhD in neurochemistry, she knows whereof she speaks), so here I am lunching on mackerel, sardines & salmon. Don't think I can face anchovies again though. That's too much salt in one package even for me.