Not Going as Expected

Well my plans to start the new year off healthier has gotten side tracked. I started off on the right foot, but a light case of the flu or something knocked me off course.  I am feeling much better and I am trying to eat according to the plan.  It is the exercise that I am having the most trouble with. I just do not like getting out of bed at 4:30 to go to the gym. I got spoiled over the holidays, to many days off allowed me to sleep in.  I was used to getting up by 5:30 at least and now I will stay until the absolute last minute. I have to find the motivation to roll out early enough to get in a good work out at least 3 days a week.

I also have not put away my Christmas decorations.  It has either been to cold or I have been to sick to take care of it. So everything is piled in the two front rooms of the house waiting to be boxed up.  The tree is still completely decorated and I don't see when I am going to have time to get to any of it.  Saturday I will be at the church all day cooking and delivering soup for our monthly Soup Saturday. I need a week off with good weather and good health to get some things done.  I also need for someone to take Ray for that week.  I work better when he is not around.

As I write this a plan is formulating on how I can do all that I need to do within the allotted time. I will get back on track with my New Year New Me plan, and I will get the decorations put away. And I will give the dogs a bath. One more thing on my list of things that really need to get done. If only I really were an amoeba, then I would just split and all my problems would be solved.  I would be half my weight and one of us could go to work and the other could stay at home and take care of things there. A girl can dream, can't she?

Here I go again

One of the things that I vowed to do in this new year was to start writing again. So as the title says "Here I go again." I want and need to do this for myself and if I inspire or encourage others then that is an added benefit. I never dd like the word resolution, I like to think of it as more of a clean slate and a new beginning. That is what I am going to aim for in this new year. Becoming healthier, and hopefully losing weight in the process. Over the years I have gone on various diets and lost and gained enough weight to make up at least one whole person. We have all been told that yo-yo dieting is not good for our bodies. So I stopped dieting all together. My weight was totally out of control, I was diagnosed with type II diabetes, hypertension, thyroid disease, and in July of 2012 I was hospitalized with chest pains. Thankfully there were no problems found with my heart. I halfheartedly went to the gym and sort of tried to eat better. Then later in the year my blood sugar spiked to 533. And refused to go down below the low 200's. I joined Weight Watchers, and I am truly trying to be more careful about what goes into my body. I am going return to the gym and get in a good workout at least 3 days per week. Right now my goals are small. I have a pair of jeans in my closet that I cannot zip, I want to be able to get them on by the end of January. And when I do, I will shout it to the roof tops. One of the things that I have wanted to do for years is to ride along during the National Field Trials. I won't be able to this year, but next February I will be there.