Happy New Year. I hope everyone had a wonderful time over the holidays.
Christmas was great. Hubby got me nearly every Sims expansion pack (my only leisurely activity these days), a beautiful journey ring (no...it doesn't play Don't Stop Believin" but I kinda wish it did now that I said that), a new necklace, and the coolest machiney thing called a cocomotion that heats and whips up hot chocolate for you (no more standing at the stove stirring for what always seems like 6 years while I eat all of the mini marshmallows). I also got a new Guess bag and my favorite JLo perfume from my sister, a gift certificate to my favorite hibachi restaurant, a coat (in a size TWELVE!!!), some super fly boots, the new cranium, the new Dean Koontz, and some other stuff that I'm clearly forgetting to mention. Wow...that's a LOT huh?
The boy got sick-starting Christmas morning (which is swell, since he just got over a cold/earache right after turkey day). This was the sickest he's ever been, and I'm still exhausted from the entire ordeal. So, needless to say, we made zero plans for New Years Eve. No friends, no alcohol, no Dick Clark stunt double countdown. I played Sims, Hubby played Gears of War (did I mention we're serious gamer geeks?) and we just mummered Happy New Year when we heard the fireworks going off outside our bedroom window. Ehh...not too big of a deal though-I was exactly where I wanted to be, and not including my sister, who was also home with sick kids, I had everyone here that I wanted to see anyway.
So..onto the whole diet thing...
I've never been one for making New Years Resolutions...honestly. I feel like the whole resolution thing is a little overplayed, and can't figure out exactly why we have to wait until January 1st of every year to make a positive change for ourselves. I still feel that way, so I'm not about to start making resolutions now.
However, I've been slipping up a lot lately. You know..the whole holiday ruckus "I've been baking all day, cleaning all day, one cookie won't hurt, I deserve a treat or 12, don't have time to make dinner so let's order a pizza" kind of situations? Not that I've gained an abundance of weight from all of it (No, I'm not bragging or anything-typically I would gain 5-7 lbs around the holidays-my family is nothing but a bunch of foodies)-this morning I only weighed in a little less than 2 lbs heavier.
Anyway, to get to my point. I'm back on the wagon. There's no excuses left to derail my train-the left overs are gone, the cookies are gone or have lost their novelty already, and I'm soooooo tired of feeling like crap at the end of the day from all the bad stuff I've put in my belly.
Expect to see more of me around, so that there will be less of me around...if you catch my drift. I'm back on plan, counting calories like a psycho, and working out daily.
Yay for 2009!!!-I've got 16.9lbs to lose to reach my ultimate goal weight of 175lbs (the lightest I've been since my freshman year in highschool nearly SEVENTEEN years ago)-and I think after that, I'm going to toy with the idea of losing another 15-25lbs within the next year.
