New Year's Resolutions

Funny how I keep coming back to this blog. Ok, so I did go down a size since last year. I can now fit into size 20 jeans at the gap, whereas last year I was wearing size 22 from Lane Bryant. So that's at least a step in the right direction, right?

But if my Grand Life Plan works out the way I want it to, this will be the last year that I'm not either pregnant or have a baby (we want to get pregnant in 2010). So I need to start thinking about this whole Being Healthy thing in a new way. It's not just about me anymore. It's about being Healthy for the little thing that's going to grow inside of me. And it's really selfish for me to want to eat a twinkie and deprive Baby of a healthy mom. I mean, duh.

I also realize that I feel so much better when I drink lots of water and don't eat a ton of sugar (she says, having just eaten a Little Debbie's Christmas Cake - listen, it's not going anywhere till I eat it and I might as well not have it hanging around until February, right?).

I've been bored on the elliptical lately, so I've taken to shoveling snow as a workout. Man, I'm working muscles I never knew I had. Plus the upside is that our deck is getting steadily cleared of snow. Bonus! It's nice to see our huge deck now, and not see it all covered in two feet of snow.

I'd been doing pretty good on the lowering-my-sugar thing, but then I kind of backslid just now. But I have shoveled snow for 45 minutes today during my lunch hour, so maybe if I do it again tonight - or do the elliptical or something to work off that dang Christmas tree cake thing (it was so yummy though - almost worth it).

Anyway, that's where I'm at right now. For the first year in a while last year I ended the year lower in weight than I had been when the year started, so rather than be upset that I didn't lose the weight I wanted to, I'm going to take that momentum and use it this year...