Happy New Year

I welcomed in 2013 with kind of a whimper.  My friend Colleen had me to her house and we were total couch potatoes.  She has her sister and nieces living with her and I forgot how much drama they bring! WOWSA I do NOT want to be 19 or 17 again.  Now I'm at home, just watched the Badgers lose the Rose Bowl AGAIN, and battling some stomach bug.  Everything is going through me in an hour.  So not fun!!  I might just go to bed early and hope a good nights sleep can cure it all.

Before that I'll share with you one of my biggest resolutions: weight loss.  Per the standard index I need to lose 110lbs to be at a healthy weight for my height.  That's a lot, but I eat a lot.  Sooo I rejoined Weight Watchers online.  I've done the meetings and never stayed, I'd just get the access online and go weigh in.  So why pay more when I can weigh in my own bathroom?  My sis and her hubs are on their 2nd day so I do have some help and motivation.

My first couple days will be refiguring out what I can eat and how much.  I've been horrible at knowing portion sizes my entire life.  My mom always went on the premise that if it was healthy we could eat as much as we wanted.  This is not true and still a large part of my problem.  I have to go through my fridge and freezer and figure out what I have, what's not expired, and what I will actually use.  Most of it's WW friendly as I've never given up a lot of the habits I learned 7 yrs ago.

My goal is to start with 1 month of just focus on food and then add exercise next month.  If I'm feeling good and not struggling I could add it earlier.  As I get older I'm very much in a baby steps mentality.  I like to master one task and then focus on another, rather than several all at once.  I'm hoping it will make all of these items more of a habit and permanent change, rather than a quick fix.