Back in the Saddle

Happy Belated Merry Christmas, Grainiacs!  I took some time off to be with family and enjoy the season.  I love being with family and friends, don't you?  Unfortunately sometimes being with family and friends means eating!  I have been in a constant state of full.  I have traveled from one feeding trough to another.  I was working a cryptoquip this morning and the puzzle produced this pithy statement: When I started to feel ill after overeating, could you say I was having a glut reaction?"

I definitely am feeling a glut reaction today.  I overdid the holidays in that sense and I promised myself I wouldn't!  This morning I started a walking routine-- hopefully it becomes a routine.  I was talking to myself--giving myself a pep talk, if you will, and I was setting goals for myself.  I thought WW encourages members to lose up to 2 pounds a week.  I decided my goal will be 2 pounds a week and in 6 weeks I'll be down 12 pounds.  But you know what?  Six weeks is a long time away!  I'm a procrastinator.  I know myself; my grain would be to set that goal and then fall off the wagon and try to lose my 12 pounds the week before my goal date.  I still do that in other areas of my life-- like planning a get together at the house and waiting till the last minute to clean, or read a book for seminary and think I'll read a chapter a day and by golly the assignment is due and I haven't opened the book since that initial goal!!!!

Time is funny that way.  It seems to fly by and I'm sitting there wondering where the time went.  So I'm not going to wait till New Year's to set my new resolutions.  I'm starting today and I'm not going to pick some obscure number in some obscure day in the future.  My goals will be weekly.  Just like any addict, I have to take it one day at a time or in my case, one week at a time taking it one day at a time.  My goal is specific and achievable:  watch what I eat for the rest of the week and aim to lose 1 - 2 pounds this week.  I'll weigh on Saturday and not beat myself up but accept what the scale says and work towards a 1 -2 pound loss next week too, but I won't worry about next week till next week.  I will also write down every morsel and glob that goes into my mouth.  Ta Da.  That's it.  Oh and I'll exercise too.  For real.  No excuses.  So far so good....and it's 10:28 a.m.!!!!  LOL