A New Begining

I am about to take a journey, a journey to heath. For to many years I have let myself be unhealthy. I have cheated my family, friends, community and self. That is all going to change.

Many times I have vowed to diet or loose weight, exercise and get in shape. Those things never happened. I believed I was weak of character, self control and undeserving. I mean come on if I really wanted it I could make it happen right? Must be something wrong with me. I am finished this type of self hate and undermining attitude.

I am taking however long it takes to change. To start I am tying a 5 week program by WellBody Lifestyle. I'll post daily updates to keep myself accountable. I will be reading and following The Beck Diet Solution; a workbook to help with the emotional part. I have downloaded two apps to my new IPhone, one is map my ride and the other is map my walk. I think these will be helpful by shoeing me a map of what I have done each day. D-day is going to be Sunday June 10,2013. I haven't decided what numbers I'll share just yet.

I am fortunate to be spending the next few weeks in Key West, FL what could be a better place for a fresh beginning. Hopefully along the way I will also become a better blogger learning to post links, photos, recipes and such. I am by no means a techie, so hold on tight!

Descision

Yesterday I made a descision, it is one I have made many times before. I have decised to fianlly get healthy. In the past my goal was to lose weight. I never saw beyond to how keeeping the weight off would benefit me.

I am the Queen of the Quitters, and I am about to embark on an adventure to abdicate my crown!

I have ordered the Shakeology system, contacted a personal trainer, purchased some recomended reading and set my goal! In the past I start off strong and then stop when it gets too hard, boring, or whatever other excuses I can come up with. Not. This. Time. I am done beign tired, obese, and unhappy. By this time next year I WILL be smaller, more flexible, have better hair and skin and hopefully more self confidense. The best part is Derrick will be joining me on this trip!

I have a blog on the Team Beachbody website that will go into more detail of my struggles and successes,  but I will keep you updated here too. After all this new life change will probably take up a huge amount of my time.

Paradox

It is interesting, if you were to ask me about my daughter one thing I would say is that she is a homebody. She loves being home.

Tonight we pick her up from the airport, she is returning from Peru where she has spent the last six weeks. So maybe she isn't a homebody. She has been on five of the seven continents, visited Australia, China, Tibet, South Africa and now Peru. All these trips have centered around learning and at times she was homesick yet she pushed on. I also know she has future plans to travel. Her career choice will most certainly call for travel.

So how can she be a homebody? There is the paradox. I don't think we need to be one thing or the other. What is important in my opinion is to be present wherever you are or whatever you are doing and whoever you are with.

So I am challenging myself to become a paradox and be present in every situation and not be one thing or the other.

When You Can't Sleep? ...Bake

Recently I have been suffering a bout of odd sleeping....I'm tired I just can't sleep. Then I fall asleep after a day or two of catnaps and sleep for 12 hours. It has mostly affected my life in a bad way, I am driving my family nuts and myself too.

On a recent sleepless night I remembered that my dad brought me strawberries and they were probably almost rotten. So what's a sleepless girl to do? BAKE!!!

I made this pie from Martha Stewart's website. It is a strawberry pie. It calls for 1 lb of strawberries but I was only able to salvage 1/2 lb from mine so I added 1/2 lb of blueberries. YUMMY!!!!!

Feeling the Itch

I am sooooooo looking forward to being in this place for three glorious weeks! As an added bonus Derrick will celebrate his birthday there and we have family coming to see the place for the first time.

You're Never Too Old to Need Your Mom

The other week I had to undergo a surgical procedure, and I was very nervous about the whole thing. My husband took me in for the surgery and was very supportive and had me calmish by the time I went into the OR.
Upon being released from the hospital my mom took over my care. She was so wonderful to come here for 2 weeks and cook and clean and care for my zoo! I could have never rested and gotten well without the reassurance that she had everything under control.

My Mom is AWESOME! I hope if my adult children ever need me I can be there for them like she is for me.

2011

Ended 2010 the same way it started, enjoying food and drinks with family and friends. My plan is to sit down this evening and make a list of things I'd like to accomplish this year. Looking ahead I see busy times! Some things thing I know will appear on my to do list is to blog more, get and stay organized, continue with our healthy eating plan and to exercise more. I also want to spend more time with family and friends so I am planning to host dinner parties every other month, starting at the end of January. It won't be anything elaborate as long as we have warm hearts and good conversation. I also have plans to have career coaching to help jump start my real estate business, looking forward to this for sure.

So stay turned....This is gonna be my Year!