New Years day here we come

I am not a person to make big resolutions.  This year however I need to make a PLAN not a resolution.  I am no dummy I know that the longer that I remain at a unhealthy weight the worse I will be.  I already have mild high blood pressure and I know that a drop in weight would help that. 

So what’s my plan you ask?  Oh and thanks for asking.  Each week I am going to make 1 healthy change to my life and as these changes increase I am hoping that the numbers on the scale will decrease in comparison.

Week #1-  My drinking habit- No silly I don’t have an issue with alcoholic drinks, it’s the other kind and for the most part I don’t have a problem here either but I know that a healthier and less caloric choice for all my drinks(except my morning joe) will be replaced by water.  Sugary drinks are just empty calories and diet drinks wreak havoc on your hormones because they trick your body chemically.

So this week join me in checking in with the water challenge!

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So how do we begin?

It is so easy to say you want to lose weight and so hard to follow through on it.  I don’t do well writing down what I eat or want to eat or thought while I was eating.  That is not the best way for me.  The main idea has to be portion control and getting moving.

 

Day 1:  That is today!  My portion control at breakfast was good, this one varies for me because I have daycare kids coming and my own kids getting ready to catch the bus about this time so sometimes I don’t remember to eat and others I overeat not paying attention(obviously a place to watch.  I took the boys out to play and shoveled the entire 30 minutes that they played.(++++)  Lunch time I snacked while cooking for them and so had a very small portion during the meal.  Then during nap I needed to make treats for the girls to take to school on Thursday.  Yes I ate some of the cookie dough and half a sugar cookie.  Not great, not horrible, but not great.  Heck perfection isn’t possible but at least I am trying. 

Hopefully this afternoon I can either shovel again(in WI we got dumped on yesterday) or a run on the treadmill or Wii fitness we shall see.

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40 overweight and fed up with it

This past July I turned the big 4-0.  Numbers have never really bothered me, in fact I really love birthdays so I am not one that will be 39 and holding.  What is the fun in that.  I look at my mother-in-law, who in November turned 89, and realized that each year is a new goal to the next and that celebrating the accumulation of those years is so important.

So what makes me so fed up?  I have been overweight for much of my adult life.  My Junior year in college we found out that my Grandma had incurable cancer and I swung into what I now realize was a deep depression and the pounds began.  I regained some control prior to my second child but if I really want to see 89 like my Mother-in-law I am going to need to make some healthy changes in order to even come close to that goal.

What am I going to do about it?  That is the big question.  It has to be a new way of life it can’t just be quick fix or these pounds will just come back.  I want to make myself accountable to someone but I am not sure who.  So I chose you, whoever you are, reading along and I will not only share my successes and there better be some, but also my failures and goodness knows there will be some of those.

Thank you for coming along on the ride and feel free to join in and journey with me to a healthier being.

Let it be

The challenge during the holiday season is to take the time to enjoy it.  We have put so much into the holiday that just doesn’t need to be there that we end up running each day from one activity to another, from one store to another but never take the time to enjoy the things that are most important.

If you are a Christian, what is this holiday truly about?  Is it gifts given and gotten? Is it cookies or parties?  Those things are all there, part of all of our memories but we are missing the real reason that all those things are happening.  The birth of Jesus is the most important reason for the season.  What can we do to remember this on a daily basis?  How can we remind our children who focus more on the bearded guy and the presents?

This year, like last year our Christmas eve story will be about the birth of Jesus not the coming of Saint Nick.  The kids are also going to make and decorate a cake for Jesus’ birthday and that will be breakfast on Christmas day as we remember the reason for the season.

What ideas do you have to share?

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