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january 1, 2007
happy new year!
may God bless you & yours with a year full of promise & new beginnings & may you awake each morning thinking ..................................... LIFE IS GOOD!
one of the things that is so good about life is ........... it's full of new beginnings! & i'm so very thankful for that! i think i've had more new beginnings than there are stars in the sky & i'm not talking about the number of new years i've experienced. i'm talking about second chances & opportunities to begin again & also second chances with relationships.
today, i'm going to embrace the opportunity that God so freely gives to all of us to begin again.
i desperately need to lose weight! & to show my commitment to doing something about it, i'm laying it all out here & now for everyone to read about & hopefully you will all encourage me along the way back to physical fitness.
i didn't gain this weight overnight. it's crept on over the last 10 years, but the last five have been the worst & just in the last year i've gained 15 lbs. making my total weight gain for the last ten years a whopping 40 lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've gone from a size 6 to a size 16. even my shoe size has increased!
i could start in with all the excuses as to how & why (menopause & medication have most definitely played a huge (no pun intended) part in this) & i could also beat myself up over it. but the important thing is to have a plan & start with it today & do it one day at a time!
so -
the plan: weight watchers online (which i've belonged to for over 5 years, i think!) & exercise (treadmill, video & maybe, just maybe the cardio kickboxing class they just started at church)
the goal: lose 25 lbs. by 5/15/07 & be able to walk 5 miles uphill with keeling over!
the incentive: a trip to italy late may, early june
complicating factors: severe food allergies, psoriatic arthritis (a form of rheumatoid arthritis), lack of self-control, hectic schedule
things in my favor: God is on my side & so is shelly!
day 1 -( today) 1/1/07
intended to get up at 5:30 to hit the treadmill. we both overslept, then henry showed up & coffee & the newspaper & henry kept me occupied til 10 am. shelly beat me to the treadmill, he did a half mile in 15 then i did a mile in 28 (no big deal). the house is absolutely full of sweets & goodies & cheeses & all kinds of things that are not on the plan but are all the things i crave around the clock. if it's bad for you, i crave it. if it's good for you, i'm allergic to it! i get 21 points a day. i think the hardest thing will be to find a variety of good things to eat & portion control. what a piggie i've become! :O) oink oink
well, i'm off to easton now. z galleries is calling my name. maybe if i'm spending money, i won't be eating. (bad habits die hard - i just asked shelly to drop me off so i wouldn't have to walk!!!!!!!!) guess i better drive & park at lazarus (whoops, macy's) & walk over. why am i going? they have beautiful christmas decorations on sale. they've been on sale since the week before christmas & i didn't buy anything. so now, i'm thinking, if anything is left, i'll buy it, if it's all gone, that's okay, too.
that's all for now.
oh, one more thing - when you think of us, please pray!
with love,
miranda
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