At the beginning of last year I, like so many others, made it my goal to lose weight and feel better about myself. I started full-force by signing up for Weight Watchers online, eating better, going to the Y to work out and trying to be positive. I hate to admit that I failed, but I did. While I have been successful using WW in the past (in losing the baby weight from Jordan), it is no longer the program that I knew then. While I still believe in the WW philosophy, I don't know if it was trying to follow their new program that didn't work for me or what, but I didn't lose the weight and I became frustrated. I gave it a few months but then it went downhill from there...
Long story short, here I am again. It's a new year, a fresh start. And I'm trying again. Not only to lose the weight, but to get healthier, feel better inside and out, be positive about all things in my life, and to be a better wife, mother, person. There are things in my life that are toxic and only I can change them. So I am, one step at a time.
My Christmas gift this year was a treadmill. I had not been on a treadmill in probably 15 years. Even when I worked out at the Y I always rode the exercise bike or did weights. But Jeff wanted a treadmill and so I started looking at them in early December. I found the one I wanted and a few weeks later he got it for me and put it together. It wasn't until January 5th that I actually used it for the first time. (Not my fault, if you saw a previous post we were out of town and then down with the flu.) But, I have to admit, I felt great after that first use. I used it the next day and have continued to use it. I'm only doing 30 minutes at 3.0 mph but hey, it's a start for this person who was fairly inactive before!
I've also started eating better. I'm not following WW this time, but trying something new. One of my CT members recommended the
Everyday Health site so I signed up there and have started to log my calorie intake as well as my exercise. I'll admit this past weekend we (Jeff is trying to lose weight too) slipped a bit when we went out to eat (twice) but overall I think I've been doing well and I hope that this works for me. I want to be HOT! heehee.
Aside from the health stuff, I'm also working on getting back to scrapping more. I've really missed it. Before I was a designer I used to scrap (and shop!) all the time! I never meant to give up that scrapping time, but it certainly has gotten away from me. Now I'm making much more of an effort to scrap and not going to feel guilty when I do so. :)
Creatively, I also want to push myself, to explore and learn new things. I'm taking a
Digital Art Journaling class and while it just started yesterday, I've already completed my first assignment and I'm loving it so far. This is something SO different for me, but it's good to push ourselves out of our comfy little box sometimes. Here's my first try which was based on the prompt "heart."
I'm thinking about maybe printing it for my home.
OK, that's it for me today. While there are other things I'm working on, I really just wanted to blog a brief overview so that when I come and post later people will know what the heck I'm talking about. ;)
Here's to a great year for all of us!!
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