It's a New Year, so it's time for new resolutions..........

But I'm sorry to say that I actually didn't make any resolutions related to my weight loss challenge.  Don't get me wrong, I did make resolutions this year but just none related to weight loss.  I made resolutions related to my work life, social life, and personal life.  The new year came and all I thought I needed to do for weight loss was to stick with working towards my overall goal. 

Through this whole process I've been able to figure out what I need to do to be successful and what I shouldn't do too.  This whole experience so far has been very challenging.  It changes day by day and sometimes even hour by hour.  I can be on track and motivated in the morning only to end up way out in left field by the end of the day.  I've been making different weight loss resolutions each week for the past seven months.  And that is the beauty of it all.  I'm lucky to have realized to be successful in my weight loss goals I have to be flexible.  If I wasn't flexible, I've would have given up a long long time ago.  I've failed at many of my different resolutions along the way.  I still drink Diet Coke regularly.  I still don't get physical activity daily.  I still eat unhealthy things.  BUT I exercise more than I did before.  I still say "no thank you" to things that I know I shouldn't eat.  And I am still working towards my overall goal.  And that is AWESOME!

The year mark for my weight loss challenge is Memorial Day weekend.  I am sitting at 27 pounds lost (had some bad weeks with vacation/ holidays/ illness/ etc).  I hope to be able to say on Memorial Day weekend that I am at 50 pounds weight loss.  That's the current goal and I hope to achieve it and then keeping going down from there.  So to all of you who have made New Year resolutions, keep up the good work.  If you are failing at your goal so far, don't give up.  Be flexible!  Re-evaluate your plan, make some adjustments, and keep going.  If you never try then you will have to accept defeat in the end.  Accepting defeat is not fun, so get to work!  We're all awesome and I know that together with each other's support (I'm so lucky to have all the support and followers with this blog) we can achieve anything!