2 month check in. drum roll please…

ok, 2 months since I started on 1-1-17. Starting weight is 242. Now I’m at 219. 23 pounds gone. So much more energy, like it’s life changing. The fogginess is lifting from my brain. Stomach issues have pretty much gone away. Skin is clearer, nails are getting stronger. My hair feels better. Double chin is almost gone. Not snoring like I used to. I can cross my legs now…haven’t done that in forever. My leg, back and foot pain is 100% gone. Wow.

I like these benefits.  Onto month 3. Goal is 215 by the end of March. If I hit 210, I get to treat myself to something special at Ulta.

Let’s do this!!!

…this time with feeling

How to start out? New year, new me? Nope,  I like pretty much most of me. In with the new, out with the old? Naw, too typical of a new year beginning. I think “…this time with feeling” sums it up.  I didn’t go the usual resolution route. Been there too many times. Do well for awhile and then it goes out the window. So I really looked at what I wanted to be different in my life and decided that if I can do something to change it, I need to hold myself accountable and DO IT! Accountability. It’s what it comes down to. Am I holding myself accountable? Am I giving in because something is too hard? Am I making excuses to stop? Why do I put myself last?  I realized that I am worth fighting for. So here it goes. Accountability. To myself. And so let’s do this…this time with feeling.

2016 = 47

I remember being in my teens and thinking that the year 2000 was so far away. I hoped that the future portrayed in the Jetsons was real. I wanted food to come out already prepared and Rosie the Robot was a must in my future. So here I am, 2016, and I now know that the Jetsons lied to me.

2016 is the year I turn 47. Forty-seven…wow!  That’s so close to 50. I remember thinking that people in their 40’s were so old. Yet I don’t feel old (my body may think it is but my mind is still going like I’m 32).  Thanks to the miracle that comes in the form of moisturizer, I don’t look my age. People are shocked to find out that I’m actually older than they think. Thanks Mom for the moisturizer tip. I get it now when you said I would appreciate it when I got older.

I am looking forward to this year. 4 and 7 are my two favorite numbers and I figure that 47 will be good for that fact alone.  This year will be different for me in some ways. I have a child that is technically an adult and has moved out of our home and into his University dorm. I’m trying to deal with that. I have another child who loves being the only kid at home and just soaks up the attention.  On the serious side, my mother had a stroke 3 months ago. She and my dad are living with me while she recovers. In a blink of an eye, our roles changed. I’m now the responsible one who makes sure that my Mom’s needs are being met. I’m in charge of keeping all the doctor’s appointments straight, fighting her insurance company and I have become her teacher too. She’s relearning her alphabet, numbers, birth date, names of people in her life, etc.  She has been so determined to get back to her old life. She has made so much progress. I am very proud of how far she’s come. But now that things are settling down and her speech has come back (to a point), I can see other issues that we need to work on.

2016 is going to be about growth. My family is changing. Roles are changing.  To top it off, after 23 yrs with the same company, I’m seriously thinking of making a change. This year should be interesting.