Better Late Than Never, I Suppose….

Welcome to 2011! It has been sometime since I have written so I thought I better take some time out today to finally do it. The New Year is off to a great start, I think. I am as busy as ever but thankful to have things going on. I have heard it said, to realize your goals, you have to have a plan and that plan must be written so that is what I shall focus on in this installment.

A New Year….. A New Me!

I am not sure if it is the New Year or the reality that I am about to turn 30 but I really want to make sure that this year is a year of new beginnings for me. Specifically, I want to prove to myself once and for all that I can get healthy and stay healthy. This has been my New Year’s resolution time and time again but I am beginning to realize that the older I get, the more important it is. So, this year, I want to:

• Lose Weight: I want to lose weight for a number of reasons. Mostly, because I am vain and I want to look good. Ha! But I also want to get down to a healthy weight so that I feel better. I do not like dieting and I certainly do not like exercising but I am no longer going to look at it in terms of that, I am going to look at it in terms of a better me. In the past, when I have given into temptation, I just throw caution to the wind but now know that a stumble just means I will have to get back up and do it all over again.

• Lower Blood Pressure: Shortly after starting law school, I was put on blood pressure medication. I never really knew what high blood pressure meant but now know that it puts pressure on your artery walls and causes plaque buildup in one’s arteries which can lead to heart disease, kidney failure, etc. Since heart failure and cancer run in my family, I can not afford to be the cause for increased chances of disease when I can do something about it. The goal for the New Year is to lower the blood pressure and get off of the medication.

• Exercise: This may go hand in hand with losing weight and lowering blood pressure but it goes beyond that. I want to have more energy. I want to not get winded from tying my shoes. I want to be able to go up a flight of stairs without almost dying on the way up or down. Since I work from home now, a sedentary lifestyle is an understatement. I sit when I work, I sit when I go to class, I sit when I want to relax, I sit when I want to read…. Just too much damn sitting and not enough moving so I need to pick up the pace!

I welcome the encouragement and motivation to make it happen! Here is to our best year yet...