(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
