It's that time again. You know, that time where you tell yourself you are going to change. Really, truly, honestly going to change. That this time, something is going to be different. That this year, you are going to set a New Year's resolution, and that this year, you are really going to follow through. Yeah, it's that time for me, too.
I hate New Year's resolutions. They never last. I've never made one and stuck with it for more than a couple of months (and the year that it lasted months rather than days was just a fluke...). So, though I'm starting this around the New Year, it's not a "New Year's Resolution"; we'll call it my "New Life Resolution."
So, about me: I'm 22. I just finished college two weeks ago. With a degree I may never use [Geography]. Luckily I've been working on campus for a little over four years, and in that time I was eventually promoted to a temporary staff member...meaning I finished school with a job pretty much lined up. Yay me. So that takes away the stress of finding a job (for now). And with school being over, I feel like I really want to focus on me for a while. I'm going to have to figure out how to balance working full time, seeing my family (that lives about 60 miles away), and seeing my boyfriend (that lives 40 miles away...in the opposite direction from my family), all with my main priority of getting healthy.
Getting healthy history: In July this past year I joined Weight Watchers. It worked for my mom, and I got to the point where I knew I needed to make a change (needing a nap everyday after work [which is a desk job] really puts things into perspective). It isn't that I'm obese. At this point, I'm only mildly overweight. But if I continue down the path I'm on, I will be very overweight, and probably obese, before I hit 30. At 5'9", 169 is considered a normal weight (...though normalcy is relative). In July I weighed-in at 184. By the end of August, I was down to 175. That is when I began to fall off track. School started and I used that as an excuse to stop focusing of my diet. And during that time I did nothing as far as exercise goes. I could not get myself to do it. Laziness, at its finest. I have been on and off of my diet for about a month now, and I have not weighed-in recently (I'd guess Weight Watchers would put me at about 176-179).
So here I am, declaring to the world (or perhaps declaring to my imaginary world) that I will get fit. I will eat healthy. I will workout. And I will do this for me.
As far as my method, I'm still a bit iffy on that one. I plan to continue Weight Watchers. They rolled out their new plan in November, but I haven't followed it for a single week yet. So that's part one. I'll need to figure out some sort of exercise routine. Jillian Michaels videos? P90X? C25K? I have no idea. Maybe I'll just start by using my lunch breaks to walk around campus (it is hilly). Or join a boot camp.
I'm also not sure exactly what I'll be using the blog for (food blog? exercise accountability? random rants? all of the above?). But I'm going to play around with it and try to keep it entertaining.
Day one will be Monday, January 3rd. Sunday will be planning day. And I look forward to sharing this experience with the world. Good night!
