It has been awhile since I've posted but I felt like what I had to share wasn't really relevant and even really blog worthy. I haven't had a lot on my mind due to being a crazy woman with schedules and running around getting things back to the norm after the holidays. Now, all craziness is pretty much done and I have decided today to embark and a completely different journey that I have never even done before and I want to be able to blog about all of my experiences and progress. So let me first start with my resolutions for this year before getting into my great new plan.
This year I would like to be more positive and yell less. I am a yeller, big time. I'm not proud of it, and I have been known to break a drawer or two and put a couple holes in walls to let frustration out. This will be challenging sadly for me, but I'm already seeing improvement, aside from my crock pot shattering on my front porch from my sweet daughter trying to help me out ordeal. I was not happy, and I have made my apologies where necessary. I've also bought a new crock pot, and we are all over it now.
Like most everyone I want to lose weight and be healthier. This has been my goal for many years now and this is my year, and I'll explain that a little more in a minute.
I want to do more service. Last year I started by trying to do an act of service at least once a week. That got a little overwhelming as I was pregnant and trying to make my acts of service huge things. This year, I'm going to go for 2 acts of service a month and if I can do more, great. They don't have to be huge or even acknowledged by others but I feel it will benefit me and my family to do more service.
So there's the big 3 goals, now, the weight loss and health goal is huge for me especially since i'm at the highest weight I have ever been aside from being pregnant. I am not happy with the scale and I am bound and determined to change it all. Today my cousin posted something about doing the American Fork half marathon in June. I am not a runner, I have never ran in my life, but it also looks quite enjoyable and I've decided to give it a try. Now, starting with a half I've read is probably not wise, so I then started doing some research and found a 5K in April that I want to try. I'll train for that, then continue my training for the half in June. I am really excited and my husband is 100% supportive of this. He and my kids will be my little chearleaders at the end of every finish line and even on the mornings when it's hard to get up and get out.
We are also trying to start eating a lot healthier, or cleaner I should say. I took Jack to the doctor for a routine check up and his doctor pretty much laid everything out that most of the food we're eating is going to eventually give us diabetes and kill us. Now that is a bit extreme but that's what I got out of it. Basically the FDA is stating that everything put into food is fine and we have nothing to worry about. But that's what the cigarette companies were saying 50 years ago that cigarettes are fine, don't worry about it and now we have lung cancer and people are dying from them. I am trying to be more cautious of what we're eating, which is hard due to our habits, but we'll pull through this together and get it done.
I will be doing a lot of updating here with this for my personal need, and maybe it will help motivate someone else along the way. I will also continue to do other posts along the way but I am really excited about this new goal in my life and I can't wait to see the progress we make.
Here's to a new year, a new beginning and a new life!
