(due to an internet outage, I wasn’t able to post this until the new year. Anyway, here it is now)
Every year I make a few resolutions, and every year I get to February 1st and realize I am scarfing down McDonald’s like a champ or forgetting to not working out because I am “tired”.
Like Roni says, eating meals that are healthy and filling are a lifestyle choice, and it is a choice that you have to just come to. You have to decide to make healthy eating a priority. Yuo have to make exercising a have to, a part of your daily routine, not a maybe or an I’ll get to it.
I have to make working out a priority. I have to make eating healthy a priority. I don’t think these lifestyle changes count as “resolutions”. If I think of eating healthy and working out as anything BUT lifestyle changes, I have a feeling I will crap out almost immediately.
For the last 3 days, I have been doing 3 things that I have been hesitant about talking about on this blog. For some reason, I am afraid if I say it out loud I may jinx myself.
1. I have been doing yoga for 30 minutes each night before I go to bed. Mind you, it is not Power Yoga for Experts or anything, but I am doing all the moves and it is making me both sweat and I am a tiny bit sore in the morning. I am doing Yoga for Back Pain and Hatha Yoga for Beginners.
2. I have been eating a packed, fresh lunch each day at work and a healthy home made dinner at home each night. I have even had a healthy breakfast each day. I am actually getting my recommended fruits and veggies in too! My only downfall has been 1% hot chocolate with reduced fat whipped cream and OIL POPPED POPCORN each night. I know, I know. I have no excuse except it’s Christmas and I was not with my biological family this year (and we always have oil popped popcorn and HC for a snack on Christmas Eve).
3. While I have been getting to sleep late each night, I have been getting more restful sleep and I am not so sleepy in the morning. I chalk this up to yoga, better eating, and finally getting the humidifier back up and running (mold, be gone!).
I am afraid saying these things out loud will make me stop doing them.
If you ask any of my friends/colleagues/family, they will tell you that I am not one to take a compliment. At all. I am that annoying person that says things like “but I don’t have any makeup on” or “well, you should see my (insert random body part here) if you think I look thinner today” or “sure, WHATever (while rolling my eyes)” when a complement comes my way. I have friends who don’t even try to give me an attaboy anymore. I need to learn to take compliments this year. I need to learn to say Thank You – not “but…”
So while I guess I won’t have “resolutions” this year, I will have goals.
And I will go my best to get close to achieving them.
AJ
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Happy New Year! Roni sounds so much like my WW Counselor. I to believe if we are willing to make this work we have to do what HAS to be done in order to finish the job. This has to be apart of our daily life. So many ppl make resolutions every year year after year to never fulfill them. I think the problem with that ppl want it and they even dream it but,when it comes to it they aren’t getting off there behind and getting it done
So true Mary!