Oh yes, that’s so original; a blog post about New Year’s Resolutions. You know, those things everyone makes at the start of the year and then promptly drops within two weeks, maybe a month, tops. Some people say you should call them goals so that they’ll be more realistic or perhaps attainable, but the fact is, they’re still goals you resolve to make for that year. In other words, they’re resolutions.
Now that the semantics are out of the way, let’s see how well I did from my resolutions of last year:
- Read more books.
- Walk the dog.
- Commit to a writing schedule with SGR.
- Stop being so hard on myself.
I can say that I’ve improved with three of the four resolutions from 2014. I did read more this past year than I have in a long time, and my current stack of book shame will prod me continue the trend. I have gotten better about writing on a somewhat regular basis with SGR, and I’m not as mean to myself. Yeah, walking the dog didn’t really happen.
And what about 2015?
I’d like to think I’ve set a decent foundation in 2014, and I want to take that foundation and push it forward to make it a habit.
Keep Eating Less Sugar
God this has been so hard. I’ve been struggling to lose the baby weight far more than I did with Gabriel, which is weird considering I gained more weight with him, and this time, simple dieting or simple exercise has not been enough. I’m working hard on cutting down the calorie intake, and it’s disturbing to see how much one sweet, even just one cookie, will throw off my day. If I exercise, it helps, but often exercising only lets me have just a few cookies or a teensy slice of cake. It sucks, especially since I have a major sweet tooth and I’m married to someone who has an even larger sweet tooth and the fact that I’m trying to lose weight has no bearing on the cookies and ice cream he brings home on a regular basis.
That said, I have noticed that the less I eat sweets, the less I crave them. And then when I do eat them, I don’t eat half as many as I used to. I’m hoping this is a sign of progress for molding my eating habits.
Keep Doing Yoga
I seriously thought yoga was for snobby people. Oh, I do yoga, eat a raw vegan diet, drive a hybrid, meditate, and believe in psychics and astrology. Yeah, you’ll never catch me doing yoga.
It was talking to an old friend about how much yoga personally changed her life and her battle with depression that made me want to give it a chance. Another friend said she wanted to go with me, and well, I need a workout buddy to force me to get out there and do stuff. After two weeks, I was hooked. I haven’t been able to go to yoga all this week and I feel like a slob. I never knew how much poses could kick my ass each day.
In addition to being able to do two things I’ve never been able to do in my entire life–touch my toes and get into a tripod–yoga has immensely helped my self-confidence and my anxiety problems. I’ve forced myself to go to yoga when I was on the brink of tears, convinced I’m bad at my job and no one liked me. I left the session with zero fucks to give about what people think about my opinions.
Moral of story: yoga has been doing great things for me, and I need to keep it going.
Write consistently.
I have this bad habit of starting random writing projects and then not following through with them. Or, if I do follow through with them, I do it on a sporadic basis, which serves no one.
I resolve to be more consistent where I write, including SGR, writing on my brand new company website, this site, my Stack of Shame project, and another writing project a friend and I talked about doing last year. Of course, writing consistently for my job at Action Trip goes without saying.
Sticking with realistic resolutions yet again, but hey, there’s no point in suddenly deciding I’m going to take up playing the bass guitar or something like that, even though I think that would be pretty cool.
May you be able to attain all of your resolutions for 2015!
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